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Detailed explanation-1: -About the Author Uday Mahurkar is a central information commissioner with the Government of India. A former senior deputy editor with India Today magazine, he has penned two books on PM Narendra Modi’s governance. He is credited with developing a new narrative on Savarkar based on his national security vision.

Detailed explanation-2: -In his book, The History of the war of Indian Independence, Savarkar wrote about the guerilla warfare tricks used in 1857 Sepoy Mutiny. The book was banned by Britishers, but Madam Bhikaji Cama published the book in Netherlands, Germany and France, which eventually reached many Indian revolutionaries.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1926, two years after the release of Savarkar from the prison, a biography titled “Life of Barrister Savarkar” and authored by a certain “Chitragupta” was published.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sagara Pran Talmalala/ Ne Majasi Ne is a Marathi patriotic poem written by Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Sawarkar on the shore of Brighton in England.