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KULAPATI K. M. MUNSHI

India will once again be acknowledged as the vishwa guru - a superpower that embodies the ideals of vasudhaiva kutumbakam - the global family.

Kulapati Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, had a humble origin.

He was born at Broach (Gujarat) on December 30, 1887, to Tapibehn and Maneklal.

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He completed his school and collegiate education, the latter in Baroda where he had Sri Aurobindo as one of his teachers (1902). Sri Aurobindo's inspiring writings in Yugantar, Bande Mataram and Karmayogi were read by Munshi avidly.

Munshi entered the legal profession in 1913 in Mumbai. With a flourishing practice at the Bar, he was, however, drawn to politics, first to Dr. Annie Besant and later to Mahatma Gandhi. Under the latter's leadership, he participated in the Salt Satyagraha in 1930 and was imprisoned for six months; later in 1932, he was sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment.

Munshi's public career began with his entry into the Bombay Legislative Counc