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The Thapar’s and Nehru’s.
Statutory Warning – I will not be responsible for serious adverse events happening after reading this.
Born in 1855, Karan Thapar’s paternal grandfather was Diwan Bahadur Kunj Behari Thapar of Lahore. He belonged to a section of the Punjabi elite that

came into new wealth as commission agents for the British.
Kunj Behari Thapar was also one of four people, including Umar Hayat Khan, Chaudhary Gajjan Singh & Rai Bahadur Lal Chand, who donated Rs 1.75 lakh to the fund of Punjab governor Sir Michael O’Dwyer — the man who backed

the actions of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer during the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Kunj Behari Thapar was also awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1920 for his loyalty.
Kunj Behari Thapar had three sons — Daya Ram, Prem Nath and Pran Nath — as well as

five daughters.
Daya Ram and Pran Nath (Karan’s father) launched a network of familial affiliations which would keep the Thapar clan politically and socially relevant for years to come.
General Pran Nath Thapar served as an Indian Army chief, under whose leadership India lost a

war against China in 1962, forcing him to resign in disgrace on 19 November that year.
In March 1936, Thapar had married Bimla Bashiram Sahgal, the sister of Gautam Sahgal, who would later marry Nayantara Sahgal in 1944.
Nayantara is an Indian writer in English, the second of

three daughters born to Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, whose brother was Jawaharlal Nehru. Vijayalakshmi served as a member of the Constituent Assembly, and India’s ambassador to the Soviet Union, the United States, Mexico, the Court of St James, and Ireland. In 1953, she became the

first woman to preside over the United Nations General Assembly.
Bimla Sahgal’s sister, Karan’s maternal aunt, was married to V.P. Menon’s son, Menon played an integral role in India’s post-Partition political integration, serving as the secretary to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

(V P Menon was a great man, nobody gave him his due because he was a Patriot unlike other family members)
Pran Nath and Bimla had four children: Shobha, Premila, Kiran, and Karan, who is the youngest sibling.
Daya Ram Thapar was the oldest of the three brothers, and was a

medical student in Edinburgh. He volunteered for medical service in the Indian military, eventually retiring as Director General of the Indian Armed Forces Medical Services. He had a son, Romesh Thapar, two daughters, Bimla and Romila.
#RomilaThapar is one of India’s foremost

Distorian and Anti Hindu parasite.
Romesh Thapar was born in Lahore in 1922, and was sent by his family to England to pursue his education. The post-war socialist discourse popular in British universities had a deep impact on Romesh, thereby laying the foundations for his

affiliation with the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
By the 1950s, however, as the late theatre personality Habib Tanvir wrote in his memoirs, Romesh “grew distant from the Communist Party but his political views remained leftist to the end”. This distancing, according to

lawyer Nandita Haksar’s account of the time, came after Romesh’s left-leaning publication Crossroads was banned by the erstwhile state of Madras for publishing what was perceived as anti-Congress content.

Romesh fought a case against the ban in the Supreme Court in 1950, with

the apex court ruling in his favour.
Along with his wife Raj, Romesh launched a monthly journal called Seminar in 1959, which established a loyal, powerful readership base in Nehru’s socialist dispensation. In the late 1960s, Romesh and Raj were part of the intellectual elite

that was privy to political undercurrents at the Centre. Known to be members of the ‘inner cabinet’, they enjoyed close proximity to Indira Gandhi, a friendship that only strengthened after Nehru’s death.
Raj and Romesh Thapar had two children, Malvika (Mala) Singh and Valmik

Thapar.
Valmik Thapar married Sanjana Kapoor, actor Shashi Kapoor’s daughter, and is into wildlife conservation. Valmik has produced documentaries for the BBC, Animal Planet, Discovery and National Geographic.

Malvika Thapar married Tejbir ‘Jugnu’ Singh, son of one of Delhi’s

most pre-eminent families (see below) that built the new capital when it shifted here from Kolkata.
Together, Malvika & Tejbir ran Seminar after the death of her parents.

WHO IS TEJBIR SINGH?
Tejbir Singh is the grandson of Sir Sobha Singh, a key witness in the bomb explosion

in Parliament on 8 April 1929. It was Singh who identified Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt during his testimony, as a result of which Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Tejbir and Malvika’s ancestry mirrored each other — Sobha Singh’s

loyalty to the British, a lot like Kunj Behari Thapar’s, is what won him immense wealth and prestige. He, along with Sujan Singh, were awarded the contract to build Lutyens’s Delhi after Lord Hardinge, the Viceroy, announced the plan to move the British Indian capital to Delhi

from Calcutta.
Sir Sobha Singh’s younger brother Sardar Ujjal Singh would become a parliamentarian as well as the governor of Punjab, and later Tamil Nadu.
Sir Sobha Singh had four sons, Bhagwant, Khushwant, Gurbaksh and Daljit, and a daughter, Mohinder Kaur.
AND EVERYBODY KNOWS

KHUSHWANTH SINGH, THE FAMOUS JOURNALIST WHO HAILED RSS FOR SAVING SIKHS FROM RAJIV GANDHI’S BUTCHERS.
Mohinder Kaur, Khushwant’s sister, is the paternal grandmother of actor Amrita Singh. Shivinder Singh Virk, a general in the Indian Army and Rukhsana Sultana are her parents.

Sultana, a close friend of Sanjay Gandhi, is remembered in modern Indian history for her notorious role in the massive sterilisation programme during the Emergency, which she defended on multiple occasions.
“Devil’s Advocate”, the autobiography of Karan Thapar has a great meaning

because All The Devil’s and Evils are present in One Big Family.

(The Original Article Appeared In Shekhar Coupta’s Print)

#VANDEMATARAM