Many of the scores of letters to Mahatma Gandhi that Srinivasa Sastri wrote were from his home in Mylapore, Madras (now Chennai). The house was named “Swaagatham” (“welcome“!). I have visited that house several times in the 1980s when Karthik (Sastri’s great grandson), my friend, used to invite me there late afternoons for an hourContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy… (Part-6): When Sastri corrected Gandhi’s English sentence-syntax and advised him to give up his dicatorial ways!”
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The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi? (Part-3)
The diplomatic tight-rope walking that Rt. Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri had to execute in his remit as the Agent-General of the Imperial Government of India (1927-29) in South Africa was accomplished not only with great dexterity but also aplomb. For the services he rendered to both the British Government as well as to the Indian communityContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi? (Part-3)”
The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi? (Part-2)
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the mass leaders of the Indian National Congress who were at the forefront of the Freedom Struggle against British Colonial Rule all fell into roughly three broad but clear ideological groupings. They were all patriots devoted to the cause of Independence but they differed sometimes quite widely in their respectiveContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi? (Part-2)”
The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi?
The Sastri College in Durban, South Africa is a co-educational, multi-racial, multi-cultural state secondary school with learners from grade 8 to grade 12. The founding of Sastri College was the vision of the (Late) Rt. Hon’ble V.S Srinivasa Sastri (1869-1946 CE). The official opening of the school took place on Monday, 14th October, 1929 whenContinue reading “The Rt.Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri’s memory and legacy lives more in Durban than in Delhi?”