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All India Congress Committee Office, New Delhi, 1967

Posted on February 9, 2007February 13, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

  This photo was taken in front of the All India Congree Committe office at 7, Jantar Mantar Road, New Delhi in 1967. Isvarmurti was assigned the task of writing the congress party pamphlets for the Congress Party during the General Elections in 1967. During this time Atulya Ghosh was the Congress Party treasurer and…

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With MGR – Former CM. Tamil Nadu

Posted on February 9, 2007February 13, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

  M.G R (M. G Ramachandran) was at his peak fim career in the year 1972. Isvarmurti’s friendship started from this time onwards. It continued when MGR rose to become the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for 10 years. This photo taken in New Delhi where Isvarmurti met him.

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New College, Oxford 1959

Posted on February 8, 2007February 13, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

  In front of the main New College entrance. Founded in 13th century, New College was then and still continues to be one of the largest Oxford Colleges. This was the first college to introduce the Quandrangle style of Oxford colleges. V. Isvarmurti studied the undergraduate course of PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics). In his…

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Cheena Bhavan, Santiniketan 1958

Posted on February 8, 2007February 13, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

  The Chinese language class of Prof Tan Yun Shan at Santiniketan. V.Isvarmurti (top right hand corner) was attending a 3 year diploma in Chinese language. Prof Tan Yun Shan was a contemporary of Generalassiamo Chiang Kei Shaik and Mao Tse Thung. Prof Tan established the Cheena Bhavan in the year 1921 and was a…

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How I became an entrepreneur?

Posted on February 1, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

Nothing in my life prepared me for an entrepreneur! No one would believe how I had changed or to use a current phrase, how I had re-invented myself! This thought ran through my mind recently as I was glancing through the pages of any old book I edited when we launched the Vadamalai Media Group….

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Two big biographies : Winston Churchill, Lord Keynes

Posted on January 31, 2007February 7, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

Time has come to call the British bluff. The “New Britain” is seen by British people themselves as a nation given to much war-mongering on the part of Tony Blair who imagines himself a second Winston Churchill! More war interventions, more name and fame for Britain. I had read the two biographies of two great…

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Autobiographical : What history I studied?

Posted on January 31, 2007February 7, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

My Oxford years : crowded by philosophers and historians! A.J.P.Taylor, Isiah Berlin, James Joll Indians need to learn to distrust much of British written history. The immediate provocation for this essay is the reading of A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990), the well-known British historian, for the second time. I had the good fortune to attend his history…

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A fine piece of chaste Tamil prose writing

Posted on January 30, 2007February 7, 2007 by V.Isvarmurti

An Autobiography Incidentally, no other Tamil district town, as far as I know, has such a well-built cultural and literary meeting place and in this Salem stands out as a unique society of much literary merit. There was one more literary meet in Salem.This time it was the invitation of a leading figure in the…

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V. Isvarmurti is a leading public figure from south of India. He is a former member of the then Madras Legislative Council. He had his education at such reputed institutions like Tagore’s Santiniketan and Oxford University. Read More

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