Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was born on May 28, 1883, in the village of Bhagur, near Nashik, Maharashtra, to the Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin Hindu family of Damodar and Radhabai Savarkar. He is also known as  “Swantanryveer Savarkar”. He was also known as “Veer” in his childhood days for his courage. Veer Savarkar was heavily influenced by his brother Ganesh Savarkar. He was a firm believer of the “Swadeshi” ideology, he boycotted and burnt all the foreign goods in 1905. In his teenage years, he formed an organization called “Mitra Mela” which brought all the revolutionary-minded people together, this organization later developed into the Abhinav Bharat Society which was a secret society run by Veer Savarkar and his brother Ganesh Savarkar.