Ex-CM had endless appetite for tennis
The Free Press Journal|December 11, 2024
Towards the end of 1960, Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, then a 28-year-old Fulbright scholar in Texas, reached out to John F. Kennedy.

He expressed a desire to manage Kennedy's presidential campaign in localities where Indians were in large numbers.

Kennedy wrote back after the elections, thanking the young Indian for his efforts, Krishna recalled in his 2020 autobiography Smritivahini. Krishna said he misplaced the video of Kennedy taking oath but his love for the 35th American president never wavered. "He possibly considered Kennedy his political guru. He was also an ardent follower of the head of the Ramakrishna Mission and Ram Manohar Lohia," B.L. Shankar, senior Congress leader and a close aide of Krishna, told The Print.

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