Tag: Rajaji

  • Wit and Humour of Rajaji

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    Rishvanth Reddy Mucheli
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    One of the greatest tragedies for the disciplines of history and political science in India is the fact that we have less biographies about the people we study about. What we have are (a) hagiographies that are uncritical and hero-worshipping in their content and bizarre in their prose, (b) good and quality biographies focusing only…

  • Archives: A Pair of Sandals by C. Rajagopalachari

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    Rishvanth Reddy Mucheli
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    Maniyanur is one of our famine relief villages. The Harijan part of it consists entirely of half-starved cobblers. Maniyanur is the weekly market place for all the villagers a good distance around, and so the authorities have, as is their rule, fixed up an arrack shop and a big toddy tavern there. Both of them…