Memoirs of a Rationalist

Author: Vasant SathePublisher: Stellar PublishersYear: 2006Language: EnglishPages: 449ISBN/UPC (if available): 8190224735 DescriptionA lawyer by training, a parliamentarian by conviction, a socialist in spirit-Vasant Sathe, 80, has earned a place of distinction in the history of Indian politics. Brought up by parents on Tilak School of thought in the midst of the freedom movement, this young, fiery student’s passion to plunge headlong into this battle for the liberation of the nation from the British rule set many a precedent. One such remarkable act was removing the Union Jack and unfurling the Indian Tricolour at the District Court at Nagpur, while facing a firing squad and police lathi-change in the Quit India Movement in 1942, when he was merely 17.A boxing champion of Morris College, a linguist and commendable orator of Nagpur University, who coveted countless trophies, this connoisseur of classical arts defied the lucre of a legal career after graduating from Law College by takin