One of his loudest editorial campaigns was seeking the lifting of the British ban preventing Bharati, VVS and Aurobindo Ghose from re-entering India from French Pondicherry. When the ban was lifted, Kamath invited VVS to edit Desabhakthan in August 1920. At India House, that London home of Indian revolutionaries, he came under the influence of Vinayak Savarkar, the revolutionaries’ leader. When Savarkar was arrested for trying to overthrow the British government in India, VVS, helped by Irish revolutionaries, attempted to rescue him from prison, while he awaited transit to India for trial. The target, RWD Ashe, Collector of Tinnevelly, they held responsible for the sufferings of VO Chidambaram Pillai, whose Swadeshi shipping line had challenged British shipping.

Source: The Hindu January 22, 2018 05:57 UTC