Home Minister Rajnath Singh after paying tribute to right-wing ideologue Veer Savarkar on his 133 birth anniversary, at Central Hall of Parliament House, on May 28, 2016 in New Delhi, India. Born on May 28, 1883 in Nashik in Maharashtra, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, later known as Swatantraveer Savarkar, was a revolutionary and Hindu nationalist who was imprisoned by the British in the Cellular Jail in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.