1. Brajesh Singh was an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India.
24 Facts About Brajesh Singh
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Brajesh Singh hailed from the royal family of Kalakankar near Allahabad, and his nephew Dinesh Singh was a minister in the Indian cabinet.
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In 1963, while recuperating from bronchitis, Singh met Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin.
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Brajesh Singh returned to Moscow in 1965 to work as a translator, but he and Alliluyeva were not allowed to marry.
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Brajesh Singh died the following year, on 31 October 1966.
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Brajesh Singh was born in Rajput family to Raja Ramesh Brajesh Singh, the taluqdar royal of the Kalakankar.
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Brajesh Singh's father Raja Rampal Singh was a founding member of the Indian National Congress and his grandfather Lal Pratap Singh was a leader in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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Brajesh Singh later moved to Berlin, to pursue an engineering education.
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Brajesh Singh was one of those students who became an active communist and began closely working with him to establish the Group of Oppositional Indian Communists that would be affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany Opposition and INC.
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Brajesh Singh financed Roy's health care in Switzerland and his trip to India.
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However in 1931 when Roy was arrested in India, Brajesh Singh decided to relinquish Roy's principles and defected back to the orthodox communist stronghold in Europe.
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When he arrived in London in September 1932, he came across his brother Raja Awadhesh Brajesh Singh, who had been regularly commuting from London to Dublin.
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Brajesh Singh followed her, but due to his inability to find work in England, he returned back to India after divorcing her.
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In October 1963, while recuperating from bronchitis at Kuntsevo Hospital, Brajesh Singh met Svetlana Alliluyeva, who was there for a tonsillectomy.
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However, he and Svetlana came up with a new plan, where Brajesh Singh would go to Russia from India and work as a translator of Russian texts into Hindi.
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Brajesh Singh left for India in December 1963 and went to Russia in March 1965.
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Brajesh Singh was calm and patient and knew how to look upon things with a certain sense of humour.
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Brajesh Singh came to live with us, and to Katya and he was our mother's husband, and we treated him with respect.
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Brajesh Singh was isolated after falling under the government's scrutiny, his Indian friends in Moscow stopped visiting him.
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The translation work Singh did for the publishing house Progress came under the scrutiny of Vladimir N Pavlov, the English Division's chief editor and former translator at Yalta and correspondent to Churchill under Stalin.
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Brajesh Singh began spending her entire day with him at the hospital, where they talked about India and sometimes read the Vedic hymns.
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Brajesh Singh was visited by his ambassador friends during his stay at the hospital.
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When Brajesh Singh's friends arrived, they burned sandalwood, recited verses from the Bhagavad Gita, and the next day they took Brajesh Singh's body to the crematorium.
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Brajesh Singh was given special permission by Kosygin to go to India on a condition that she would avoid contact with foreign press.