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George Mathew Fernandes (3 June 1930 – 29 January 2019) was an Indian trade unionist, statesman, and journalist, who served as the 22nd Defence Minister of India from 1998 until 2004. A veteran socialist, he was a member of the Lok Sabha for over 30 years, starting from Bombay (present-day Mumbai) in 1967 till 2009 mostly representing ...
Jan 29, 2019 · Veteran socialist politician George Fernandes, who served as India's defence minister during the Kargil conflict with Pakistan, has died, aged 88.
Jan 29, 2019 · George Fernandes, a former Defence Minister of India, has died at 88. He had been unwell and bedridden over the past few years.
- Archana Complex, Block B, Greater Kailash I, New Delhi, 110048, India
- Practitioner of Liberation Theology
- A Principal Architect of The NDA
- Wrongly Blemished by The Congress
- From Mangalore to Mumbai to Muzaffarpur
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Birth and background matter a lot in Indian politics – either as help or handicap. Born in a devout Christian family in a place (Mangalore in Karnataka) so far removed from the centre of gravity of national affairs, George Fernandes had little natural advantage to make it big in life. His parents wanted him to become a priest. He rebelled – and cam...
His political life thereafter took many zig-zag turns. Those days, it used to be said, disparagingly, that three quarrelling socialists would split their party into four parts. The debacle of the Janata Party government (which had been voted to power with such heightened hopes in 1977) and the subsequent splits in the Janata Party and the Janata Da...
George Saab’s most trusted colleague for the longest part of his political life was Jaya Jaitly. He shared her passion for preserving India’s priceless heritage of crafts and arts. If George Saab’s otherwise bare and chaotic house had the look of aesthetics with a social cause, it was provided by the incredibly beautiful maps and posters made by Ja...
To reiterate an important point, it was a long and uphill struggle for a person with a self-evidently Christian name to become – and remain for such a long time – a central figure in Indian politics. This is testimony to India’s intrinsic secular character. George Fernandes’ journey from Mangalore to Mumbai to Muzaffarpur in Bihar (from where he wa...
A tribute to George Fernandes, who died in 2019, by Sudheendra Kulkarni, a former colleague and admirer. He recounts his life story, from his humble origins to his role in the anti-Emergency movement and the NDA government.
Jan 29, 2019 · George Fernandes (88), the man who had set out to be a priest but instead became a trade union leader, a socialist, and finally the Defence Minister of India, breathed his last in New Delhi on...
- Kasturi Building, Anna Salai, 859-860, Mount Road, Chennai, 600002, Tamil Nadu
George Fernandes was an Indian socialist politician and trade union organiser who served in a number of ideologically disparate governments over the course of more than 40 years in national...
Jan 29, 2019 · George Fernandes, former Union minister and nine-time Lok Sabha MP, passed away Tuesday morning at the age of 88 following a prolonged illness. He had been bedridden for the past few years. Fernandes was born in Mangalore in Karnataka in 1930. An anti-Emergency crusader, Fernandes was a fiery socialist and arch-enemy of Indira Gandhi.
