Nathuram Godse: Sapoot or Kapoot of India?

By Sumit Paul, New Age Islam 12 June 2023 Union Minister Giriraj Singh thinks that Nathuram Godse is Sapoot (worthy son) of the country! One shouldn't be surprised as this ain't unexpected of the ministers of the current political dispensation. Giriraj says that the assassin of Gandhi ji was not an invader like Babar and Aurangzeb as he was born in India! The glorification of certain egregious characters in the recent times has reached absurd proportions. People like Godse and Savarkar are being extolled. A government-sponsored commissioned work (Vikram Sampath's " Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past") on a British stooge Savarkar is being promoted and his political thoughts are on the syllabi of a few varsities. Gandhi and Nathuram Godse. Photos: Public domain Illustration: The Wire ----- DU has elbowed out Dr Muhammad Iqbal's political thoughts from its curriculum. In short, a false narrative is in circulation. This worthy Sapoot, Godse, urinated and defecated in his prison uniform while being led to the gallows. Mind you, he did defecate before hanging because hanged convicts often defecate when the sudden jerk caused by hanging breaks the neck bone and impacts spinal cord. That's why, hanging is such a crude, primitive and painful way of 'killing' a wrongdoer. But that's for some other day. This Sapoot already soiled his pyjama at the chilling sight of the noose. Let me use a rather rustic local phrase in Hindi. The 'worthy son of the country' who killed a frail old man of peace was in a state of Aage Se Geeli, Peechhe Se Peeli when standing and quivering on the scaffold at Ambala Central Jail on November 15, 1949. 'Veer' Savarkar sent 11 mercy petitions to the Viceroy begging that he'd remain an unwaveringly loyal servant to the British Raj and would even help the government by providing secret information of the revolutionaries. He even got a regular pension for his 'services' to the government. Now unfortunate students will get to read that quisling and Fifth Columnist Savarkar's venomous political thoughts and his outbursts against the Muslims! Jay Ho ! Some readers may say that I suffer from Hindu-phobia and have begun to favour Muslims. Sorry, I bat for none. I condemn everyone whenever an individual or a specific community does something reprehensible. It's time for the sane people to come together and openly castigate people like Giriraj, Maharaj, Pandits and Babas who're unofficial spokespersons of this regime which has done nothing except for spreading the culture of hate and fake news, communal politics, political showbiz, data manipulation, institutional atrophy, trolling and corruption. ---- A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several languages including Persian. URL: https://newageislam.com/spiritual-meditations/gandhi-nathuram-godse-sapoot-kapoot/d/129971 New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism