Kg kannabiran biography
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KG Kannabiran: Warrior for civil liberties
Infochange News & Features, January 2011
India’s well-known human rights activist and eminent lawyer of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, K G Kannabiran, died on December 30, 2010.
He breathed his last quietly at his home.
Kg kannabiran biography
Before his death he told his family he wanted no sloganeering over his corpse. He was born in 1929.
In 1976, Jayaprakash Narayan formed the People’s Union for Civil Liberties and Democratic Rights (PUCLDR). His aim in the formation of the PUCLDR was to establish an organisation free from political ideologies, through which people connected with different political parties could be brought onto a common platform for the defence of civil liberties and human rights.
K G Kannabiran was one of the National Executive members of the PUCL along with Justice V M Tarkunde, Asghar Ali Engineer, M M Thomas, Girish Karnad, P G Mavalankar, Nani Palkhiwala, Nikhil Chakravarty, Arun Shourie, Surendra Mohan, Ram Jethmalani, Madhu