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  1. Jan 31, 2010 · “He is absolutely child-like now — but it seems that he still remembers himself as George Fernandes,” says Jayati Leila Kabir, the former defence minister’s separated wife who is now back in his life after 25 years.

  2. Jan 29, 2019 · Fernandes, who was estranged from wife Leila Kabir, was closer to party associate Jaya Jaitly. When he fell sick, Leila took up his care with a court order. She disallowed Jaya from meeting Fernandes, creating many dramatic events in front of his house.

  3. Aug 19, 2009 · Leila Kabir left for the US on 7 August, three days after the veteran socialist took oath to the Upper House of Parliament, with what one assumes was a sense of victory. She had overseen George Fernandes’ smooth election to the House despite stiff resistance put up by “some of his close associates” and thus struck another blow to her ...

  4. Jan 31, 2019 · The cremation of former defence minister George Fernandes will be performed in Delhi on Thursday and his ashes will be buried at the Prithviraj Road cemetery the day after, said wife Leila...

    • Practitioner of Liberation Theology
    • A Principal Architect of The NDA
    • Wrongly Blemished by The Congress
    • From Mangalore to Mumbai to Muzaffarpur

    Birth and background matter a lot in Indian politics – either as help or handicap. Born in a devout Christian family in a place (Mangalore in Karnataka) so far removed from the centre of gravity of national affairs, George Fernandes had little natural advantage to make it big in life. His parents wanted him to become a priest. He rebelled – and cam...

    His political life thereafter took many zig-zag turns. Those days, it used to be said, disparagingly, that three quarrelling socialists would split their party into four parts. The debacle of the Janata Party government (which had been voted to power with such heightened hopes in 1977) and the subsequent splits in the Janata Party and the Janata Da...

    George Saab’s most trusted colleague for the longest part of his political life was Jaya Jaitly. He shared her passion for preserving India’s priceless heritage of crafts and arts. If George Saab’s otherwise bare and chaotic house had the look of aesthetics with a social cause, it was provided by the incredibly beautiful maps and posters made by Ja...

    To reiterate an important point, it was a long and uphill struggle for a person with a self-evidently Christian name to become – and remain for such a long time – a central figure in Indian politics. This is testimony to India’s intrinsic secular character. George Fernandes’ journey from Mangalore to Mumbai to Muzaffarpur in Bihar (from where he wa...

  5. Jan 29, 2019 · George Fernandes’ wife Leila Kabir Fernandes had returned to his life. Over the next few years, Leila and son Sean were engaged in a protracted battle with Jaya Jaitly, Fernandes’ close aide, friend and colleague.

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