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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, was an Indian politician, activist, and writer.He was known among followers by the honorific prefix Veer or "brave", a term used by a writer Sadashiva Rajaram Ranade as Swatantra Veer multiple times in his 92 page biography on Savarkar in 1924 and later by Savarkar in a 1926 biography he wrote about himself using the pseudonym "Chitragupta".