“Motilal Nehru opposed Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’s affair with Syed Hossain. Even Gandhi intervened”, MSN, September 24, 2024:
“Syed Hossain and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’s love affair was a major source of tension for Motilal Nehru. He had to call Mahatma Gandhi to convince the couple to part ways. The eloping resulted in Hossain being exiled to Cairo, Egypt in 1919, where he breathed his last.
This and other such interesting nuggets about a group of people part of the Independence struggle came up at the recent launch of Circles of Freedom, a Juggernaut Books publication, at the India International Centre in New Delhi.
In Circles of Freedom, diplomat-turned-historian TCA Raghavan gives a tangential view of the events around the freedom movement. The book chronicles the story of five young people – three young Muslim men and two fierce women – whose paths intertwined during the struggle for Independence, and how the resistance affected their personal lives. The central character of the book, however, remains lawyer and freedom fighter Asaf Ali……”
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