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ONE of the greatest misfortunes of a country which is yet to reach the self-governing stage in politics is that the lives of its more talented sons and daughters, their trials and tribulations, their joys and sorrows, their many-sided activities, the influence they wield over the lives of their contemporaries, and even the part they take in shaping the destiny of their country do not excite that interest either among their own people or in the world at large which the lives of much smaller men evoke in free countries. There are at least three men in India of to-day whose fame has travelled far beyond their own country: Sir J.C. Bose, Dr. Rabindranath Tagore and Mr. M.K. Gandhi. Yet how little does the world know of any one of them, compared to what it would have known had their lot been cast in Europe or America! With mere political leaders, the case is even worse. Dadabhai Naoroji and Pherozshah Mehta, Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee and
His work on freedom struggle, spirituality won him awards
Pe. Su. Mani, Tamil writer-historian, died on Tuesday evening at his residence in New Delhi after a brief illness. He was 87. He is survived by two daughters. His wife died in 2017.
Born on November 2, 1933, in Pennathur of Tiruvannamalai district, Mani had a modest academic background and did not pursue beyond school education. He had worked in the postal department and retired as a supervisor.
In his youth, he got attracted to eminent Tamil scholars Ve. Swaminatha Sarma, an author of a number of Tamil works on European social and political philosophers, and M. P. Sivagnanam (also known as Ma. Po. Si.), who ran a political group, ‘Tamilarasu Kazhagam’. He had worked as a leader of the group’s West Mambalam unit in Chennai.
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