Father's book

A lot of new material surfaced with regard to father's friends and works. A booklet he wrote shortly before his demise comprised of two biographical sketches of two stalwarts of his time, who fought in the trenches against the might of the Nizam's police, undeterred by the terrifying atrocities of the razakars. the book entitled 'Torch bearers of the Freedom Movement' profiled the lives of Hayagreevacharya and Katam Lakshminarayana whose selfless and dedicated efforts added a significant chapter in the history of the Freedom Movement in Hyderabad, of which father too had taken part from very early in life.
Also gathered names of a couple of father's close associates during that dark period in the history of Hyderabad - men with whom father worked closely and who could throw light on his early life, from the home front to the political arena in which the youth of that period sacrificed their lives of safety and comfort of the home to the life-threatening situations of the freedom struggle and spent more time within the confines of a jail than in the comforts of their home.
The book to me represented a precious representation of his writing style, for all that he ever wrote is now buried in the numerous dailies of the time. The style of writing, owing no doubt to the subject, was strong and came to me with a force. He minced no words in expressing the feelings of his subjects and the facts of their time, which incidentally was his own as well. As a consummate journalist and freedom fighter, he chronicled not only the lives of two eminent personalities, but also sketched in strong bold strokes the picture of the political situation which was unique in itself - while the whole nation fought the British, the people of Telangana were waging both open and covert war against the declining sovereignty of the Nizam, amidst the horror unleashed by the MIM.

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