A fascinating excerpt from Naman Ramachandran's Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography charts the rise of a bus conductor named Shivaji Gaekwad to the mega-phenomenon called Rajnikanth.
How a bus conductor named Shivaji Gaekwad became the mega-phenomenon called Rajinikanth.
Bajirao, an unorthodox leader, faced much opposition during his lifetime from the Brahmins of Pune. In the last hundred years or so, he has been ignored due to caste politics in Maharashtra where he has become a 'non person' for having been born a Brahmin, says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
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