Invited by the distinguished Vice Chancellor, S Radhakrishnan, Chief Editor of the Leader, C Y Chintamani delivered a series of lectures in Andhra University in 1935. Slated to be held over three days, the lecture on 'Indian Politics Since the Mutiny', spilled over to four! The seven-hour lecture traced the 'development of public life and political ideas and institutions' of India from 1858 to 1935 - a mammoth attempt, which attracted mass appeal. The book reproduces text of this lecture, which throws light upon the polity, politicians and the man himself.

An editor at 18, a legislator at 36 and a minister at 41;C.Y. Chinatmani strode with an usual conviction and transparency of character. Wielding his pen like a sword, Chintamani dominated Indian journalism in the first three decades of the 20th cen