Category: Autobiography

  Pandit Nehru was the Chancellor of Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. V.Isvarmurti was at Santiniketan between 1955-59. Pandit Nehru would visit every year and stay at Santineketan for few days each time.

  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…

  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.

  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…

  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…

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….

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…

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…