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C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji)
 "AM
I not a handsome old man?" So wrote C.Rajagopalachari, popularly
known as Rajaji, the former Governor General of India on the sketch
drawn by me. I met him at Chennai (Madras) when he was resting at his
modest house at Kilpauk,a suburb guarded by a lone constable at the
gate. In those days terrorism was unheard of and meeting him without any
appointment was however not difficult. As I approached the main door of
his house, his elderly daughter recognised me through the window and
opened the door. Rajaji was resting on his cot and as he saw me, he got
up and offered me a chair to sit and talk for a while. During the course
of my talk with hin, I drew his sketch and asked for his autograph over
it. He took the sketch and conducted me to his study room where he went
through the sketch minutely and affixed his signature with the remark
mentioned earlier. This was in the year 1972, October 10.
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