Two Indians engaged in the Second Boer War (1899-1902) in South Africa, which is known in history books as the dirty war , were to leave behind their imprint on their mother country s history.Their paths may not have crossed in the course of .
The other was young Pingali Venkayya, a British Indian Army soldier despatched to South Africa to fight in the war. It was in South Africa that the young man was struck by the sense of nationhood the Union Jack inspired among British soldiers. He may have been young, but he recognised the ceremonial importance and binding power of a national flag.
Gandhians recall Bapu s visit to PMCH in 1947, appeal to not demolish heritage buildings
The state government s move has upset a large number of alumni members, heritage lovers and scholars, who have already appealed to not dismantle these iconic structures.
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PATNA: Three months before India s independence, Mahatma Gandhi had visited the Patna Medical College and Hospital for an appendicitis surgery of his grand-niece Manu, and so worried Bapu was that he sat next to her, wearing a surgical mask and watched the entire procedure in the operation theatre.
Seventy-five years later, Gandhian scholars and his admirers are now concerned over the fate of the over 100-year-old Bankipore General Hospital building in which the operation took place on May 15, 1947, and other heritage structures of the PMCH Bihar and Odisha s first medical college which are set to be demolished as part of a mega redevelopment project.