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Indian President Patil to Pen Autobiography after Retirement

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">NEW DELHI (NNN-PTI) -- India's President Pratibha Patil plans to write her autobiography after she retires in July.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">India's first woman president will be completing 50 years in public life this year and is contemplating to tell her story in a book, Rashtrapati Bhawan sources said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In 1962, young Patil had become for the first time a Congress MLA from Jalgaon city constituency of Jalgaon district of western Indian state Maharashtra.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">After her speech at a Kshatriya Mahasabha convention earlier at Chalisgaon, she was noticed by the then Maharashtra Chief Minister Y B Chavan who was quick to give her the Congress ticket in the Assembly polls.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Subsequently, she was continuously elected four times as MLA from the Edlabad (Muktai Nagar) constituency till 1985.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Thereafter, she served as a MP in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Indian Parliament) from 1985 to 1990 and was later elected as a Member of Parliament to the 10th Lok Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament) in the 1991 General Elections from the Amravati constituency.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">She enjoys the unique distinction of not having lost a single election she contested.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">While in college, she took active part in sports, excelled in table tennis and won several shields at various Inter-collegiate tournaments.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Even as an MLA, she pursued her studies as a law student at the Government Law College, Mumbai. -- NNN-PTI<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Indian President Patil to Pen Autobiography after Retirement

NEW DELHI (NNN-PTI) -- India's President Pratibha Patil plans to write her autobiography after she retires in July. India's first ...

Vice President Releases the Book ‘Ross Masaud’

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</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">The Vice President, Shri Mohd. Hamid Ansari releasing the book titled “Ross Masud” <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">a biography, written by Prof. Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, in New Delhi on July 28, 2011</span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;">The Vice President of India, Shri M. Hamid Ansari released a book entitled “Ross Masaud” written by Prof. Hakim Syed Zillur Rehman at a function here today. Congratulating the author for such a valuable book Shri Ansari said that the book portrays very interesting aspects of the life of Sir Ross Masaud. Sir Masaud was a true academician and had served the Aligarh Muslim University in an ideal manner. He always believed in perfection. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2;">The book is a biography of Sir Ross Masaud, an eminent educationist of the first half of 20th century and the grand-son of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the founder of Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He was one of the founders of Osmania University, Hyderabad and also served as Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University from 1929 to 1934. He had written many books and was the President of Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hind) for 12 years. (PIB)<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Vice President Releases the Book ‘Ross Masaud’

The Vice President, Shri Mohd. Hamid Ansari releasing the book titled “Ross Masud” a biography, written by Prof. Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman,...