ANANDA BHASKAR RAPOLU: BIOGRAPHER OF INDIRA GANDHI: 1984

With his life time memory of Indira Gandhi in 1976 September, Ananda Bhaskar Rapolu was keen in understanding and preserving the records of her life.

The news of brutal assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984 at her official residence, where Ananda Bhaskar had opportunity of photograph with her in 1976, immediately made him sick and had to go home from Andhra Prabha to take medical aid and to recuperate from the truama folliwing Indira ji's demise.

For three days while at home in Gemini Colony, Ramnagar, Hyderabad, Ananda Bhaskar Rapolu following the tragic end of Indira ji and her final rites, decided to write down her biography in Telugu.

Thus, Ananda Bhaskar became first Biographer in Telugu of Indira Gandhi, immediately after her assassination. The book Indira Gandhi published in December 1984, which was released by Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma, the then Governor of AP who later became President of India.

The book Indira Gandhi was released on December 19, 1984 at Raj Bhavan, Hyderabad in the presence of Rapolu Saroja, wife of Ananda Bhaskar, A. Rama Mohan Rao, Journalist then in Eenadu and now in India Today. Visuals of the cover page of the book Indira Gandhi, few reviews in English on it, the letter from Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust by H Y Sharada Prasad and letter of Gunturu Sheshendra Sharma were on the top.

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Title:  INDIRA GANDHI [TELUGU - 1984] By RAPOLU ANANDA BHASKAR

Description:

INDIRA GANDHI, first post-assassination Biography in Telugu by
RAPOLU ANANDA BHASKAR,

then Journalist, now turned to be Public Activist.

This Telugu book on late Shrimathi Indira Gandhi ji published in December 1984,

encompasses though briefly, all stages of her life and her mark.

Ananda Bhaskar also gave his personal acquaintance with late Indira ji along

with visual of him with her in 1976.

Gunturu Sheshendra Sharma, the famous writer compared the style and
strength of narrative of Rapolu Ananda Bhaskar after reading

AUGUST SAMXOBHAM and INDIRA GANDHI, Telugu Books,
with that of 1940S and 1950s famous writers:

D.F.KARAKA and K.L.GAUBA.

D.F.Karaka was author of
I've shed my tears: a candid view of resurgent India;

Betrayal In India and Fabulous Mogul: Nizam VII of Hyderabad.

K.L.Gauba was author of Prophet of the Desert; Apnay Aur Paray;
The Consequences of Pakistan.

INDIRA GANDHI, the post-assassination biography in Telugu by
Rapolu Ananda Bhaskar in 1984

was much sought after book for the Congress workers, leaders and
followers of Indira ji.

Thousands of copies of the book got published and reached them.