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How the Nehruvian Government Dismissed a Stenographer for Being an RSS Supporter

How the Nehruvian Government Dismissed a Stenographer for Being an RSS Supporter

K.V.S. Manian, a stenographer at the Director General of Civil Aviation was dismissed in 1949 for his alleged links with the RSS.

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K.V.S. Manian was and remains an archetype and a symbol and a combined embodiment of numberless Indians who awakened to a questionable freedom at midnight. K.V.S. Manian was also a real person, a poorly-paid stenographer silently toiling away at the office of the Director General, Civil Aviation.

Until the Nehruvian hell visited him on 12 December 1948.

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