The Week says it holds Savarkar in 'high esteem', apologises for a 2016 article The context is a defamation case filed against the weekly by Savarkar's grand-nephew in 2016. Malayala Manorama, issued an apology today for a five-year-old article about Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. The piece, published in 2016 and titled "A lamb, lionised" was written by Niranjan Takle, the journalist who The publication said that it held Savarkar in âhigh esteemâ and apologised for any personal hurt that the article may have caused to anyone. The context of this apology goes all the way back to 2016, when Savarkarâs grand-nephew, Ranjit Savarkar filed a defamation case against the weekly, alleging that they had âdeliberately ignored factsâ to defame Savarkar.