Many Eulogies appeared since yesterday, but I’ll share you a different story of Saraswati Samman Puraskrut
S.L. Bhyrappa.
In a Congress Rally, S.L. Bhyrappa along with others shouted “Desh Ki Neta Indira Mata”.
This is was his typical working style, getting 1st hand field
experience instead of relying on hearsay.
His autobiography contains a valuable section that recounts a few episodes. Here is a tidbit.
Indira Gandhi branded anyone who questioned or criticized her as belonging to the evil “Syndicate.” She systematically created an image for
herself as the only savior of the poor and the downtrodden, and that only she had the guts and valour to destroy the wealthy people who were evil by definition. To bolster this image, an elaborate machinery that included fancy dresses, background music, drums, songs, and
Here's an important piece of history nobody talks about 👇👇👇👇👇
In 1951, 2 major historical episodes involving judiciary happened.
The fist was Constitution Amendment and the 2nd was,
All the 6 sitting judges of the supreme court threatened to resign because of interference
by Nehru.
26 January 1950—the day the Constitution was adopted was also the first working day of the new Supreme Court of India.
Sir Harilal Jekisondas Kania was the first Chief Justice of India, but Nehru hated him to the core.
It all started in 1945 regarding the Sapru
Commission Report.
The Report, published in 1945, had recommended judicial appointments be made by the President, in consultation with the Chief Justice.
In a letter to Nehru in 1947, Kania raised his concerns. He said that judicial appointments had to be “insulated”
The Palace Guard (Indira's guards) had issued verbal orders that #GeorgeFernandes should be killed as soon as he was captured. But this police officer insisted on getting written orders. This police officer's encrypted "For Your Eyes Only"
cable to Indira Gandhi was decrypted by her trusted aide NK Seshan.
On the night of June 25-26 1975, as leading politicians were being arrested, a telephone operator, tipped off George, who was holidaying with his wife Leila Kabir and infant son in Gopalpur in Odisha.
Clad in just his lungi, George managed to escape before the police arrived.
Masquerading as a fisherman, George travelled to Gujarat and Tamil Nadu and Kerala, organising resistance to the Emergency.
To nab George, IG's govt arrested his brothers Lawrence and Michael,
Among her failures, the least talked about was also her worst. Until all official records related to the Simla Agreement signed on July 2, 1972 are made public, we will never know what led Indira Gandhi to conclude such a disadvantageous peace with Pak following the 1971 war.
The Simla Agreement & the subsequent Delhi Agreement, gave Pakistan everything it wanted: the territory it lost to India in the war and the safe return of all its soldiers without one of them being held responsible for the genocidal campaign unleashed in what is now Bangladesh.
The Simla Agreement reads more like a communiqué than a peace agreement with a country that had waged war on India. Nothing in the Agreement pinned Pakistan down to future good behaviour.
If ever there was an inflection point in India’s relations with Pakistan,
The #openmagazine came with the headline
“The Villain Nobody Knows” and the byline, “The Indian Civil Service officer who helped the Hindu Mahasabha lay claim to the Babri Masjid”.
The villain was an ICS officer of Kerala Cadre #KKKNair
who played an unforgettable role in reinstating the fundamental right to worship of Hindus in the Rama Janmabhumi before Bharat became a constitutional republic.
KK Nair or Kandangalathil Karunakaran Nair is a name deeply engraved in the history of the Ayodhya movement.
KKN was born on September 11, 1907, at Kuttanad, a small village in Alappuzha.
After completing his education in Kerala, he went to England for higher studies and won ICS at the age of 21. He joined as a civil servant in Uttar Pradesh in 1945 and became Deputy Commissioner-cum-
This lawyer turned historian proved that Indian republics, based on the principles of representation and collective decision-making, were among the oldest and most powerful of the ancient world.
#KashiPrasadJayaswal
(27 November 1881 – 4 August 1937) was an Indian historian and lawyer.
His famous book “Hindu polity” became the most inspirable book for the Indian historian during the British Period because in this book, he countered that ideology of western historians in which it was
propagated that India had learned about political institutions and ideas from the west and there were anarchical states that existed in Ancient India
Jayaswal's works Hindu Polity (1918) & History of India, 150 A.D. to 350 A.D. (1933) are classics of ancient Indian literature