[Saudigazette]VP Menon: The forgotten hero who stitched India together
NEW DELHI — India was on the cusp of freedom from British rule in 1947 and Vappala Pangunni Menon was completely worn out.Three decades of working in the grinding imperial bureaucracy had taken its toll on the tenacious 54-year-old civil servant.Menon was "exhausted, overworked, already coughing ominously", his biographer ...