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- Born in Mangaluru in Karnataka in June 1930, Fernandes was sent to Mumbai in 1946 to train to be a Catholic priest. But he founded trade unions, finding his mettle in organising the disadvantaged, instead. His influences include Placid De’Mello — the trade union leader known as the “King of the Dockyards” — and Ram Manohar Lohia.
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Jun 27, 2022 · A new biography of one of India’s most firebrand union leaders and former Central minister George Fernandes will trace his journey from the streets of Bombay to the corridors of power in Delhi, announced the Penguin Random House India (PRHI) on Saturday.
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Oct 15, 2022 · George Fernandes was a mercurial leader, a completely self made man who started out to become a Priest. Born in 1930 in a Mangalorean christian family and being the eldest in a family which was trying all kind of means to bring up a family.
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Aug 1, 2022 · Trade unionist and politician George Fernandes (1930-2019) led an eventful life marked by struggles, victories and scandals. Rahul Ramagundam’s book The Life and Times of George Fernandes, based on 12 years of research, offers a deep dive into who he was.
The life and times of George Fernandes is a biographical book about George Fernandes which is written by Rahul Ramagundam. The book is published by Penguin Random House India.
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George Fernandes was born on 3 June 1930 (age 88; at the time of death) in Mangalore, British India. He was educated at a Government School and a Church School in Mangalore. While in 5th standard, he enrolled in St. Aloysius College, Mangalore. He dropped out of secondary school. In 1946, at the age of 16, George was sent to St Peter’s Seminary, Ba...
George was born into a Mangalorean Catholic Familyto John Joseph Fernandes (father) and Alice Martha Fernandes (mother). He was the eldest of the six children. He had five brothers namely Michael Fernandes (Trade Union Leader), Aloysius Fernandes, Paul Fernandes, Lawrence Fernandes (Socialist Political Leader), and Richard Fernandes. In 1971, Georg...
From 1969-1973, George was the General Secretary of Samyukta Socialist Party. He was the Chairman and President of All India Railwaymen’s Federation from 1973-77. After the emergency period in 1977, the Janata Party led by Morarji Desai came into power and George became the senior minister of the Party. He became the Union Minister of Industries an...
In 1997, George organised a controversial public conference of pro-LTTE elements in New Delhi. He was a supporter of The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE’s) struggle for a separate state in N...
George Fernandes suffered from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. In 2010, on the request of his wife, Leila Kabir, he underwent treatment at Baba Ramdev’s ashram at Haridwar. His brothers were given visitation rights by the Delhi High Court and later the Supreme Court of India permitted Jaya Jaitly to visit him. George made his last public appe...
George won nine Lok Sabha elections from 1967 to 2004.His father wanted him to become a lawyer.At the St Peter’s Seminary, he observed various discriminations; one of which was that the rectors at church ate better food and sat at higher tables than the seminarians. All this made him frustra...He described his struggling days in Bombay as “When I came to Bombay, I used to sleep on the benches of Chowpatty Sands. In the middle of the night policemen used to come and wake me up and ask me...George joined the trade union movement in his home town Mangalore and P.D’Mello became his mentor.He was fluent in ten languages which included Konkani, Tulu, Kannada, English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam, and Latin.Sep 3, 2022 · Rahul Ramagundam’s biography of the veteran socialist leader, firebrand trade unionist and former Union minister, George Fernandes, is one of the rare specimens of a remarkably balanced,...
This biography of the most important non-Congress and non-Hindutva politician in post-Independence India fills a major gap in the nation’s chronicles
