Kannan Srinivasan in New York

  Re Savarkar, Bakhle, Karnad, Modi Readers of LRB may be as puzzled as I have over the years whenever it carries  something about India; or economics. It is difficult to make out Raghu Karnad’s point ( Raghu Karnad; Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva  by Janaki Bakhle. Princeton, 501 pp., £38, April 2024 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/raghu-karnad/sacred-geography)  in his confusing review of Janaki Bakhle’s book Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva  by Janaki Bakhle.  Princeton, 501 pp., £38, April 2024 , other than that he had to read it in secrecy (I confess I faced no threat). But what does he want us to understand about his subject Savarkar , & his relevance today? Just to make this simple:  a dozen years ago I wrote an essay about Savarkar (https://www.threeessays.com/product/fascism-essays-on-europe-and-india/) where I described how he began a movement to harness a national sense of defeat after the crushing of the 1857...