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 SUPPLEMENT 61 voori Rama-Somayapilu Garu, Guru of the late Maharaja of Vizianagram ; educated at Maharaja's College, Vizianagram ; became editor of the Vizag Spectator^ an English weekly newspaper, at Vizagapatam in 1898 ; editor of the Indian Herald^ an English weekly newspaper at Vizianagram, 1899- 1900 ; sub-editor of the Madras Stayidard^ 1901-02 ; first joint editor and then editor of the India?t People, first an English weekly and then a semi weekly at Allahabad, 1903-05; was Assistant Secretary to the Indian Industrial Conference 1 906-1 909 and has been the Editor of the Z^^^^r of Allahabad, one of the best conducted Indian dailies in the English language, since October, 1909. He joined the Indian National Congress in 1898 at Madras and has since been one of the most zealons Congressman; was Secretary, United Provinces Temperance Council, 1904-05; Secretary, First Indian Industrial Conference, Benares, 1905; one of the Secretaries of the 21st Indian National Congress in 1905; Secretary, with Mr. A. 0. Mukerji, of the second All-India Temperance Conference, Benares, 1905 ; Secretary, with Dr. D. R. Ranjit Sin^h, of the United Provinces Congress Committee since 19 12; was a Member of the Madras Presidency Industrial Conference held by the Government of Madras at Ootacamund in 1908 ; President of the 5th United Provinces Social Conference at Bareilly in i9iiandofthe 7th United Provinces Industrial Conference held at Fyzabad in 1913; is a member of the All-India Congress, Industrial and Social Conference Committees. He compiled and published a volume of essays and addresses on Indian Social Reform and the Speeches and Writings of Sir Pherozeshah Mehta in 1 90 1. The Leader of which Mr. C. Y. Chintamani is the able Editor, is one of the most potent factors in the politics of the Province and during the period the Leader has been in existence there has been no solid and lasting reform which does not own much to its influence and advocacy. There are few Indian public men who are so well informed about the affairs of the country as the subject of this sketch. Address: 14, South Road, Allahabad.