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Siachen: The Frozen Hell
Shastriji's life is one that has a million inspirational tales. The way he lived every moment of his life is a legend in it's own. Please go through the brief description of his life in the Hero of the Month section. Let us discuss here the things that inspire us tohe most and ask us to being in a change within.
People used to call him the homeless Home Minister because he did not have a house of his own. He had rented a small house in Allahabad. Even when he was a minister, he used to stay in that house when he went to Allahabad. After a few days the owner of the house let it out to another family. When Shastriji resigned as minister he vacated the government quarters and he did not have a place to line in!
He was awarded the highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, posthumously in 1966.
But friendly words cannot tame a serpent. There is but one way to do it - to remove the serpent's fangs.
Even before the ink with which they had signed the Kutch agreement dried up, Pakisthan raised its hood to strike again. Pakistani soldiers entered Kashmir in disguise. In September 1965 there was a large-scale invasion of the territory by Pakistani soldiers in the Chhamb area. War broke out all along the Cease-fire Line on the Kashmir border.
He graduated from the nationalist university, Kashi Vidyapeeth, in 1925 and was given the title, 'Shastri', meaning one who is learned in the scriptures. The next year, he joined the `Servants of the People Society' started by Lala Lajpat Rai and plunged into the freedom movement. Shastri married Lalita Devi, the youngest daughter of Ganesh Prasad, in 1928. He did not believe in the dowry system and refused to take dowry. However, on the insistence of his father-in-law he took five yards of khadi cloth as dowry.
Born at Mughalsarai in Uttar Pradesh on October 2, 1904, Lal Bahadur Shastri had spent his early childhood at his maternal uncle, Raghunath Prasad's house. His father, Sharada Prasad, died when Shastri was hardly one-and-a-half years old, leaving his mother, Ramdulari Devi, to take care of their three children. After the death of her husband, Ramdulari Devi shifted to her father's house in Mirzapur. She played a vital role in shaping Shastri's life by imbibing the right values in him.
In the first general elections of the Indian Republic, the Congress was returned to power with a huge majority. Shastri, who was the general secretary of the party at that time, had complete control over the selection of party candidates. But he did not contest the elections.
