The name rang a faint but distinct bell. Familiar, but why? The photograph shows a dapper young man wearing a buttoned-down jacket with angled lapels, hair parted neatly on the left, head tilted ever-so-slightly to the right. This was Nagappen Padayachee, from 1909. An immigrant to South Africa from Tamil Nadu, Padayachee was arrested in June that year for hawking without a permit. His sentence: 10 days in prison with...
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Kanpur: The state-run Coal India Limited will make its second attempt to buy the house of Mahatma Gandhi in Johannesburg, where he had lived for over a year, with the desire to build a memorial there. The PSU had made its first attempt to buy the house of the Father of the Nation in August 2009 when some officials learnt that it was up for sale. But the owner of...
12:15 PM, Jan 03, 2011
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