It is also important to note that many of the jailers in the Andamans were fanatic Muslims who used to persecute Hindu prisoners and convert them forcefully. Some prisoners converted to Islam as a result. Savarkar survived all these attempts. He started a re-conversion campaign to re-convert all those prisoners who were forcefully converted to Islam.



As a result, few Muslim zealots attempted to murder him, but he survived all those attempts. Veer Savarkar’s brother, Babarao Savarkar had discovered an attempt to poison Veer Savarkar’s food and thus he saved him.



It is clear now that the clemency petitions were a strategic move.

When the enemy has his control over you, he has the upper hand. In such case, it is better to think with brain instead of thinking with the heart. A wise man never lets his ego prevail over his brain.

Shivaji too had sent similar letters and petitions to deceive the enemy as before the killing of Afzal Khan, during Siddi Johar’s siege and during his imprisonment at Agra. He had also accepted some humiliating conditions during the treaty made at the time of the siege of Purandar fort. However, Shivaji bid his time and avenged all insults when he became powerful enough. This is a clever political stratagem.

Communists also call Savarkar a coward. But what did their prophets Lenin & Stalin do? As Savarkar’s biographer J.D Joglekar says: