It is time to decisively throw off the shibboleths of the immediate post-Independence period. The Chola-style ‘sengol’ should be restored to its rightful place as a symbol of the resurgent Indian State, as it was intended to be in the first place, not, absurdly, some guy’s walking stick
The Germans were so worried about the emergence of communist groups that they kept the place, which students and revolutionaries visited, under close watch.