March 2nd, 2010 by admin

Veer Savarkar once started addressing a public meeting in Hindi at
Bangalore.

The crowd started shouting “Speak in Kannada. We will hear only in
Kannada.”

Veer Savarkar replied ” Friends, I have spent 14 years of rigorous
imprisonment in ill famous Andaman Jail where all freedom fighters like me
were kept.  I have learned Bengali from the freedom fighters coming from
Bengal, Hindi from those coming from Uttar Pradesh, even Guajarati and
Punjabi. Unfortunately there was none from Karnataka from whom I could have learned Kannada.”
…and there was pin drop silence.