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Talk:Gloucestershire

Policy
Certainly, policy clearly states that:

''Articles about counties should not be split up and should not be disambiguation pages. They should treat the counties as one entity which has changed its boundaries with time. We should not take the minority position that they still exist with the former boundaries.''

G-Man 21:01, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't want to get involved in matters of policy, but as a matter of fact, all three Gloucestershires (traditional, administrative and ceremonial) can be accurately described as comprising part of the Cotswolds, part of the Severn Valley and the entire of the Forest of Dean. Furthermore, the changes in the borders were perfectly clear in the original text, so I don't really see that clarification was needed. Cambyses 21:14, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * If you're treating counties as a "single entity" then obviously you must make a choice between the administrative county and the ceremonial county, since they cannot both exist and be a "single entity"!
 * The policy (what was actually voted on) states that we should "state which county a place is in is to use the current (administrative) county." (aproach 1) - this is obviously contrary to the current organisation using ceremonial counties, which are certainly not used for administration. In short, the policy is already a mess, self-contradictory and every single county article breaks it.
 * However, I shall quote from the same policy:
 * Examples of acceptable things: Middlesex is a traditional county of England"
 * Thus, so is gloucesterhire! It is also quite obvious that (even ingoring traditional counties) we must make a distinction between administrative and ceremonial counties, since they are manifestly different, and both refered to. Therefore, I shall continue to qualify them with "administrative" and "ceremonial" as appropriate. This is also perfectly acceptable under the policy. You will also notice that given Middlesex is a traditional county is acceptable, traditional counties should also be qualified in a similar way. Such clarification goes without saying in an encyclopaedia. The policy may be extremely badly written and full of contradiction, but I am not breaking it! 80.255 21:42, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

The 1972 legislation clearly refered to "administrative counties" as "counties" therefore the use of the term "administrative counties" is obsolete. Legally speaking administrative counties are counties, you may not like this fact but that is how it stands.

This also assumes that traditional counties still legally exist, a view which is far from universally accepted. G-Man 19:12, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * Terms can have more than one meaning in different contexts. "X, Y and Z shall be known as 'counties'" is very different from saying "All counties shall be abolished and replaced with X, Y and Z". Any legal entity that has never been abolished exists, whether you like it or not. The fact that a seperate set of entities has been created with a similar name is neither here nor there.
 * Another fact which completely demolishes your argument is this: in the 1888 legalislation, and subsequent legislation dealing with consituency boundaries (which continued to be defined using the historic Counties until around the 1920s) explicitly refered to these boundaries as belonging to the "ancient or geographic Counties". These, of course, haven't never been abolished, and no subsequent legislation has ever sought to name new entities "Ancient Counties''". Thus, "ancient or geographic counties" exist (and before you claim that "geographic county" mean "lieutenecy area" or "ceremonial county", it doesn't - this terminology has never been used in law, and was created single-handedly by ordnance survey). So, to recap...
 * entities are refered to in law as existing as "ancient or geographic counties"
 * "ancient or geographic counties" have never been abolished, either implicitly or explicitly
 * No subsequently created legal entities have ever been legally called "ancient or geographic counties"
 * Thus, "ancient or geographic counties" exist - this cannot be disputed on a factual basis! 80.255 00:38, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

As has been pointed out the 1888 legislation has been overwritten several times, so whether 'traditional counties' still have any legal existance or not is anyone's guess. It is certainly far from the ironclad fact you claim it is. I dont know how long your going to keep up this absurd pretence that medieval county boundaries still exist unchanged in the present tense. If you insist upon adding this claim then it should be stated as an opinion not as a fact G-Man 22:17, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Secondly, this article was using a perfectly sensible compromise of using the ceremonial county for geographic reference. I really dont care what you say, everyone else seems to think they exist.

See this: http://www.tellmeabout.thelocalchannel.co.uk/home.aspx?p=0&m=86

Which states

''Ceremonial County – These are areas for which a Lord Lieutenant acts as the Queen’s Deputy – every Administrative County has a ceremonial County of the same name, but the ceremonial county is in many cases larger, as it takes in areas served by Unitary Authorities. (So, for example, the Ceremonial County of Hampshire includes the area administered by Hampshire County Council, plus the Unitary Authority areas of Portsmouth & Southampton.)''

And interestingly also states:

Traditional Counties – These are counties that have no LEGAL or administrative standing, but still represent what many people continue to think of as “Counties” (These include Rutland, Berkshire, Herefordshire, Bristol, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire

Pehaps you should also read this: http://jonathan.rawle.org/counties/hist.htm

Which states:

''There is much debate as to what constitutes a 'county' today. Really, this is a matter of personal choice and opinion. Some people use the names of unitary authorities as counties, others advocate the use of the so called 'historical counties' which EXISTED before the 1974 reorganisation. ''

 * Firstly, POV websites don't prove much, as you have many times pointed out! Facts prove, opinions on websites do not. So let's get on to the facts!
 * Reference to the 1888 (and 89) Acts as being still in force are not necessary to demonstrate the "Ancient or Geographical Counties" have never been abolished. The fact that after both these acts had been passed the term "Ancient or Geographical Counties" was still used to define entities that obviously still existed. Therefore, your argument that because the 1972 LGA Act refered to the newly created areas as just "counties", it somehow "overwrote" the original entities obviously doesn't apply - because the original entities had already been previously called "Ancient or Geographical Counties" in law - and as such obviously weren't "Overwritten".
 * The General Register Office's Census Report of 1891 distinguished between what it called the "Ancient or Geographical Counties" and the new "administrative counties". It made it clear that the two were distinct entities and that the former still existed. It provided detailed population statistics for both sets in its 1891, 1901 and 1911 reports. Note that this report does not refer to counties and administrative counties, but Ancient or Geographical counties and administrative counties - redefining the term "county" in 1972 had absolutely no effect on the former!
 * Prior to 1917, parliamentary constituencies were also defined using "Ancient or Geographical counties", so the term obviously had full legal currency. This being the case, it matters not that the 1888 act was repealed, nor that the 1972 act used the term "county", because it neither altered nor abolished the Ancient or Geographical Counties, which thus still exist.
 * You have yet to offer any reasoning to the contrary of this, and I rather doubt that you could, because it is fact, not opinion. By all means demolish it if you can, but simply claiming that it is and "absurd pretence" while all the legal and leglislative evidence goes against you is not very convincing! 80.255 20:12, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

That is merely your interpretation of the law 80.255. As I have clearly demonstrated to you many well informed and knowledgeable people obviously do not share your view that traditional counties still 'exist' (In what form exactly you think that they still exist I really dont know). I am no legal expert but your claim that just because the traditional counties were not formally abolished means that the legislation still applies sounds mightily dodgy to me. The fact that you are refering to reports from 1911 merely reveals the anachronistic nature of your arguments G-Man 11:53, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Gloucestershire Airport
I think there should be a link in here somewhere since it is quite a major feature of the county. Not sure where to add it though, so if anyone would like to give it a go... Robotmannick 10:54, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Info box - Traditional County
I've parked this at the bottom of the page for now. Unfortunately twin infoboxes are pushing the text way down the page (at least in IE 6.0) and the article appears blank unless the reader realises they need to scroll right down.

One solution might be to merge the infoboxes, but there may be other ways of dealing with this. I've experimented a bit but not found a quick solution. Does anyone have any other way of fixing it? Chris Jefferies 07:49, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Where this has occured on other articles its been moved to the History of.... article. I've done this now with this one too. I didn't realise there were any left still on the main article. MRSC 08:01, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure that I'm entirely happy with the infobox disappearing altogether to a different article with no link from the main article. Futhermore I don't experience the "pushing text way down the page" effect either. Both boxes are right floats which (unless there is a wide image in the main body of the article) shouldn't interfere with the main text at all. Owain 08:18, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi Owain, what browser are you using? I'm running IE 6.0 under Windows XP, if you're not seeing the issue at all it would be interesting to know why. Mrsteviec's remark 'Where this has occured on other articles' suggests it's not an unusual problem. Chris Jefferies 08:28, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I think this started after the last wiki update. Berkshire still has this problem for me in IE6 on XP SP2 but is ok in Firefox. MRSC 08:43, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Firefox 1.07 on XP and Camino 0.8 on Mac OS X. I have seen the problem before as I say when the window size is too narrow and there is a wide image that won't fit across the page when there are infoboxes on the right. It shouldn't matter if there are one or ten infoboxes because they are all right floats... Owain

Hmm, definitely browser dependent, then. I've just tried Mozilla 1.6 on Win2K and it's fine too. Chris Jefferies 09:15, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Famous Residents
I know some towns/counties have this as a section, not sure how many there are for Glos. However, Sir Chay Blyth (although he was born in Scotland) currently lives in Box, which doesn't currently have a page of it's own. Kert01 14:44, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

There are many famous residents (allegedly!!!), starting with Charles and Anne of royal fame, Kate Winslet (Actress), Arthur Negus (antiques) actually lived in Cheltenham, Gustav Holst (composer), Sarah Siddons (Actress), Sharron Davies (Swimmer), Liz Hurley (actress/model), Chris Beardshaw (Gardening expert), Ann Robinson (Quiz host), Laurence Llewellyn Bowen (designer).

Hope this helps —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.33.19.33 (talk) 19:33, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Ashcroft, Gloucestershire?
Hi; I just cribbed a bio of a Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, the Hon. Clement Francis Cornwall, who was born in Gloucestershire, but at a place called Ashcroft, which I don't find on your towns list here, or on the list page, or on the South Gloucestershire page. I do find it on a google search as an Ashcroft Road in Gloucestershire. Is this an older or smaller village or locality that's off the beaten track or otherwise obscure today, or has its name changed? Just wondering about dab'ing the link to it if there is one; currently to the Ashcroft disambiguation page, where I've put a mention of "Ashcroft, Gloucestershire" without actually knowing if there is one (ahem) other than because of my source (publ. 1890). It's important to the Cornwall story as the name of the ranch - where English culture was pursued in fortu, with fox-hunting (well, coyote-hunting with foxhounds) and the main venue for horse racing in the BC Interior - was the Ashcroft Manor, and the nearby town of Ashcroft has the same namesake, or rather being named because of the ranch, which predated the town y'see...though just barely...1860s; there's also an Ashcroft NSW in Oz which may be named for the place in Gloucestershire, whatever it is named now or whatever it was, vs being named for one of the many people named Ashcroft. Skookum1 10:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

 * According to the OS Landranger Map (avalable online at www.streetmap.co.uk) the only extant likely candidate is a large building called Ashcroft House, near Bagpath, about 10km ENE of Wotton-under-Edge. It might be a (more or less) stately home of some kind, in which case both it or its estate could have been referred to just as "Ashcroft" - the word "House" would probably be used only in order to distinguish the house itself from the rest of the estate. So it could mean he was born either at the house, or just somewhere on the estate, or of course somewhere else which doesn't exist or isn't called Ashcroft any more.... Best wishes, Cambyses 15:16, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

That would be it, then; Cornwall's family, if you read his bio, were "untitled nobility" and no doubt had a stately home; from what I can see his father was a high-ranking Anglican cleric, and he married the daughter of one as well; it may be that the stately home was better-known at the time of publication (1890) also.Skookum1 21:54, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Broadway Tower photo - Broadway is Worcestershire
The article prominently features a photo of Broadway Tower. Although undeniably in the Cotswolds, Broadway is in Worcestershire, not Gloucestershire.

Can someone please confirm whether the tower itself- some 3-4 miles from Broadway village- is in Gloucestershire, and if not, replace the photo with a landmark actually from Gloucestershire? I suggest Gloucester Cathedral, Pittville Pump Rooms in Cheltenham, Bourton-on-the-Water high street or the Subscription Rooms in Stroud. I will go out and take photos of these myself if no legally-viable ones exist. 62.231.149.155 15:09, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

 * I've just checked my OS map and although the road alongside the tower is in Glos the tower itself is most definitely in Worcs (all be it only by about 100m). Jjasi 19:26, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

My School's Better Than Yours
I came here to read about the county, but found a bizarre pushy parents' contest. Is a comparison of local schools' A level statistics really, honestly, one of the most notable things about this historic part of the country? I think this is a dire case of schoolcruft - Cheltenham has managed to eliminate it amicably. Can we adopt the same model? Behind The Wall Of Sleep (talk) 11:31, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * In an attempt to be constructive, rather than just saying "it's all rubbish, this", I've added a brief section on the university and glos college. Maybe someone who knows could write a sentence at the top about the education system in gloucestershire, which I think is more appropriate to an encyclopaedia entry on a county.  Maybe something along the lines of "gloucestershire operates the two-tier system of primary and secondary schools", etc? Behind The Wall Of Sleep (talk) 14:57, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * My above comment refers to a previous revision of this page. I think the current version looks pretty good. Behind The Wall Of Sleep (talk) 13:43, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Flag of Gloucestershire
A link to the Flag of Gloucestershire keeps being added to the See also section of the page. I keep removing it as it has absolutely no official standing, has not been officially adopted and is simply as far as I can tell the result of an unofficial competition to design one. Does anyone think we should actually have the link? Jjasi (talk) 08:38, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

 * I think the link is useful. If anyone comes across references to this flag and looks it up under the county name, the link will enable them to discover its unofficial status. No link, no information. Myopic Bookworm (talk) 09:46, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Weak oppose. I'm not bothered by the flag itself, but the actual content of the article is of marginal notability.  It seems to be of interest only to enthusiasts of obscure flags (granted a valid activity) or those involved with the competition it talks about.  On a list of the highest value Gloucestershire topics we could have articles on (and hence links) I'd rate it a long way down.  If we do keep the link, I think it's because we don't have many decent articles on Glos topics, which is a bit sad. Behind The Wall Of Sleep (talk) 07:41, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

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Belton Knapp May festival?
I've flagged this addition because all references to Belton Knapp (currently under discussion in an AfD) come from the same user, none of which seem to be verified. Can someone either confirm or delete this statement (and preferable give their thoughts at the AfD too)? Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 11:11, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Notable people
I don't believe anybody consults this article to discover who the notable residents of Gloucestershire are. It's not information that I would expect to find in an encyclopaedia article. Readers can always consult Category:People from Gloucestershire. William Avery (talk) 11:28, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

 * The casual visitor to Wikipedia wouldn't know where to find Category:People from Gloucestershire. I personally think it's useful information, but perhaps shouldn't be in the main body of the article. I would be happy to create a separate 'List of people from Gloucestershire' page, as there is for other counties (see List of people from Kent).

 * But as the editing of Wikipedia is supposed to be a collaborative effort I think it appropriate to discuss it here first - that's what talk pages are for.  ♦ Jongleur100 ♦  talk 11:55, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

It simply doesn't belong here. There should be a separate list, but it isn't something to be in this article. Each entry should be properly sourced and taken from individual settlement articles. --Simple Bob (talk) 14:03, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

 * I know this discussion is a bit stale, but I agree. The long list of people from Gloucestershire who happen to have Wikipedia pages looks really odd.  Since it's almost two years since William Avery raised the issue and no-one has objected, I might be Bold and try it... Behind The Wall Of Sleep (talk) 12:35, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

List of towns (and villages)
I've boldly rebranded the list of towns and villages to just towns. There really area lot of villages in the county, so I think listing them here would just be silly. I also changed the wikilink from one to Kingswood, Gloucestershire to Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, which I presume is the one intended.

More interestingly I think though is the remaining contents of the section. The list isn't complete: according to Category:Towns in Gloucestershire this missing towns are Cinderford and Fairford. Although I don't think a list of towns is the best use of space on a page about a county (when we have a perfectly good category), the set of towns is limited, static and can't get out of control. I'll add these two. If anyone knows if this is the full set it would be useful to know. But do we really need a list here at all? Behind The Wall Of Sleep (talk) 13:18, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Is there really a place called Stretchit in Gloucestershire?
You might be familiar with this cartoon called "An Enquiry after Stretchit in Gloucestershire or the Sailors Reply" (version from the Royal Museum Greenwich, version from the British Museum).

But is there really a place called Stretchit in Gloucestershire or was it invented for the sake of the joke?

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Gloucestershire - In South West Region
There have been edits to the article to move 'Gloucester' into the 'West Midlands' region, with such edits being revoked. Some evidence for south west includes: If you feel Gloucester should be in the West Midlands then please provide citable evidence here so concensus can be reached. Thankyou. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djm-leighpark (talk • contribs) 06:05, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * It has been that way in this article for some considerable time
 * The BBC regional news considers it part of the south west region.
 * Notice even the 'The West Country Challenge' section above this one.
 * We seem to always use the European regions (even in situations where the name contradicts geography, like Oxfordshire being in the "south east"), so this shouldn't be controversial. --Inops (talk) 16:28, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It's not controversial. South West England has been a government-recognised region of England since the 1990s (and de facto for several decades earlier).  It has always included Gloucestershire.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:53, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Whilst Gloucestershire is in the South West region, your point about BBC regional news isn't true and is probably where the confusion stems from - Gloucester itself is part of the West Midlands TV region, and gets Midlands Today rather than Points West. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.8.163.190 (talk) 11:36, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * This BBC page suggests otherwise, though this suggests some overlap. Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:54, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * BBC regions have more to do with transmitter coverage than political areas. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 14:58, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Yep. TV transmitter coverage doesn't respect lines on a map, it's influenced by things like hills. In certain parts of north Oxfordshire, you can pick up reasonably-strong TV signals from Oxford (South TV region), Sandy Heath (East) and Sutton Coldfield (Midlands). Oxfordshire is in South East England, most of which is covered by three TV regions - London, South (east of a line roughly joining Guildford and Littlehampton) and South East (east of that line). -- Red rose64 🌹 (talk) 19:53, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Michael Jackson
The fact that Jackson once recorded a song mentioning Gloucestershire (see this edit) is not reliably sourced (WP:YT) and in any case is of no relevance whatever to an encyclopedia article about the county. Agreed? Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:20, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Agreed Murgatroyd49 (talk) 10:39, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Yep, it's WP:FANCRUFT. After all, we don't mention "The Elements" on our articles about antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, rhenium and 90+ others. -- Red rose64 🌹 (talk) 00:11, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

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Richard Wollheim

Richard Arthur Wollheim (5 May 1923 − 4 November 2003) was a British philosopher noted for original work on mind and emotions, especially as related to the visual arts, specifically, painting. Wollheim served as the president of the British Society of Aesthetics from 1992 onwards until his death in 2003.

Biography
Richard Wollheim was the son of Eric Wollheim, a theatre impresario, and Constance (Connie) Mary Baker, an actress who used the stage name Constance Luttrell. He attended Westminster School, London, and Balliol College, Oxford (1941–2, 1945–8), interrupted by active military service in World War II. In 1949 he obtained a congratulatory first in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and began teaching at University College London, where he became Grote Professor of Mind and Logic and Department Head from 1963 to 1982. He retired from that position to take up professorships, first, at Columbia University (1982–85) and then the University of California at Berkeley (1985–2002). He chaired the Department at UC Berkeley, 1998–2002. On retirement from Berkeley, he served briefly as a guest lecturer at Balliol College. Additionally, he held visiting positions at Harvard University, the University of Minnesota, Graduate Center, CUNY, the University of California at Davis, and elsewhere. Wollheim gave several distinguished lecture series, most notably the Andrew M. Mellon lectures in Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1984), published as Painting as an Art.

In 1962, he published an article "A paradox in the theory of democracy", in which Wollheim argued that a supporter of democracy faces a contradiction when he votes. On the one hand he wants a particular party or candidate to win, but on the other hand he wants whoever wins the most votes to win. This has become known as Wollheim's paradox.

His Art and its Objects was one of the twentieth century's most influential texts on philosophical aesthetics in English. In a 1965 essay, 'Minimal Art', he seems to have coined the phrase, although its meaning eventually drifted from his. As well as for his work on the philosophy of art, Wollheim was known for his philosophical treatments of depth psychology, especially Sigmund Freud's. His posthumously-published autobiography of youth, Germs: A Memoir of Childhood, with complementary essays, discloses a good deal about his family background and his life up to early manhood, providing valuable material for understanding his interests and sensibility.

Personal life
Wollheim married Anne Barbara Denise (1920–2004), daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel George Powell, of the Grenadier Guards, after her divorce from her first husband, the literary critic Philip Toynbee. They had twin sons, Bruno and Rupert. Their marriage was dissolved in 1967. Wollheim married Mary Day Lanier in 1969; their daughter is Emilia.

Publications
For an extensive bibliography of Richard Wollheim's publications by a professional bibliographer, see Eddie Yeghiayan's UC-Irvine site. See also the 'Philweb' listing.

Note: given his unique mind, personality, and distinctive writing styles, along with his curiosity and sociability, many of Richard Wollheim's publications are outside academic categories. Besides books, he published many articles, in journals and edited collections, book reviews, and gallery catalogues for shows. He also left writings in manuscript, letters and recordings of his talks.

 * Books and separately published works (selected)
 * F. H. Bradley. Harmondsworth; Baltimore: Penguin, 1959. 2d edition, 1969.
 * 'Socialism and Culture'. (Fabian Tract, 331.) London: Fabian Society, 1961.
 * 'On Drawing an Object'. London: University College, 1965 (long essay).  Repr. in On Art and the Mind.
 * Art and Its Objects: an Introduction to Aesthetics. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.  Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970. As Harper Torchbook, 1971.
 * Art and its Objects: With Six Supplementary Essays. 2d edition. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
 * A Family Romance. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1969 (novel).
 * Freud. (Fontana Modern Masters.) London: Collins, 1971. Paperback, 1973. American and later Cambridge University Press (1981) eds. titled Sigmund Freud.
 * On Art and the Mind: essays and lectures. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press,1972.
 * 'The Good Self and the Bad Self: the Moral Psychology of British Idealism and the English School of Psychoanalysis Compared' (1975)—repr. in The Mind and Its Depths, 1993.
 * 'The Sheep and the Ceremony' (1976)—repr. in The Mind and Its Depths, 1983.
 * The Thread of Life. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1984.
 * Painting as an Art. Andrew M. Mellon Lectures in Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1987.
 * The Mind and Its Depths. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1993 (essays).
 * On the Emotions. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999.
 * Germs: a memoir of childhood. London: Waywiser Press, 2004.

 * Edited books
 * The Image in Form: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes (1974)
 * Freud: A Collection of Critical Essays (1974)
 * Philosophical Essays on Freud, with James Hopkins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
 * R.B.Kitaj : A Retrospective, with Richard Morphet. London: Tate Publishing, 1994.

 * Selected articles
 * "Minimal Art", Arts Magazine (January 1965): 26–32. Repr. in On Art and the Mind.
 * "Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art", The Journal of Philosophy: 62, no. 16 (Ag. 1970): 531.
 * "Adrian Stokes, critic, painter, poet", Times Literary Supplement (17 February 1978): 207–209.
 * "The Cabinet of Dr Lacan", Topoi: 10 no. 2 (1991): 163–174.
 * "A Bed out of Leaves", London Review of Books 25, no. 23 (4 December 2003).

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List of professorships at the University of Cambridge

This is a list of professorships at the University of Cambridge.

During the early history of the University of Cambridge, the title professor simply denoted a doctor who taught in the university, a usage that continues to be found in, for example, US universities. However, from the 16th century onwards in Cambridge it was used to denote those holding "chairs" that had been founded by the university in a particular subject or endowed by a benefaction.

The university historically has made no formal distinction between established (or statutory) chairs and personal (or titular) chairs: all professorships are university offices formally established by a vote, and listed together as one class in the statutes. In practice, professorships can be established for a limited period of time or for a single tenure only, expiring after the first incumbent vacates office. It is common for permanent professorships to have originally been established for a single tenure, before being made permanent at a later date. This article only lists professorships which have had more than one incumbent, or which are not limited in duration.

The Regius Professorships are "royal" professorships, being created by the reigning monarch. The first five Regius Professorships, sometimes referred to as the Henrician Regius Professors, were granted arms and crests in 1590.


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Worshipful Company of Poulters

The Worshipful Company of Poulters is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. In 1368, the organisation received the power to regulate the sale of poultry, swans, pigeons, rabbits and small game. The company, which was incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1665, is no longer an association of tradesmen that retains its ancient powers, but now operates as a charitable institution as do most of the other Livery Companies.

The Poulters' Company ranks thirty-fourth in the order of precedence of Livery Companies. Its motto is Remember Your Oath.

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V. P. Singh

Vishwanath Pratap Singh (25 June 1931 – 27 November 2008), shortened to V. P. Singh, was an Indian politician who was the Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and the 41st Raja Bahadur of Manda.

He was educated at Allahabad University and Fergusson College in Pune. In 1969, he joined the Indian National Congress party and was elected as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.

In the Rajiv Gandhi ministry, Singh was given various cabinet posts, including Minister of Finance and Minister of Defence. Singh was also the Leader of the Rajya Sabha from 1984 to 1987. During his tenure as Minister of Defence, the Bofors scandal came to light, and Singh resigned from the ministry. In 1988, he formed the Janata Dal party by merging various factions of the Janata Party. In the 1989 elections, the National Front, with the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), formed the government and Singh became the 7th Prime Minister of India.

During his tenure as prime minister, he implemented the Mandal Commission report for India's backward castes, which led to major protests against the act. He also created the Sixty-second Amendment and enacted the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Act in 1989. During his term the kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed happened and on the ground the terrorists were released. In 1990 the infamous exodus of Kashmiri Hindus happened from the valley of Kashmir. Following his opposition to the Ram Rath Yatra, the BJP withdrew its support for the National Front, and his government lost the vote of no-confidence. Singh resigned on 7 November 1990. His prime ministerial tenure lasted for 343 days.

Singh was the prime ministerial candidate for the National Front in the 1991 elections, but was defeated.Singh turned down Prime Ministership after the 1996 Indian general election even through he was the first choice and relinquished the prime ministership to Deve Gowda. He spoke out against the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992. After 1996, Singh retired from political posts, but continued to remain a public figure and political critic. He was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1998, and ceased public appearances until the cancer went into remission in 2003. However, he died from complications of multiple myeloma and kidney failure in 2008. He received full state honours.

Early life and education
Singh was born on 25 June 1931, the third child of the Hindu Rajput Zamindar family of Daiya, which is located on the banks of the Belan River in the Allahabad district. He was adopted by Raja Bahadur Ram Gopal Singh of Manda and became the heir-apparent. He became the Raja Bahadur of Manda at the age of 10 in 1941. His ancestors were rulers of the predecessor state of Manikpur was founded in 1180, by Raja Manik Chand, brother of Raja Jai Chand of Kannauj. His family belonged to the Gaharwal clan of the Manda Zamindar.

He obtained his education from Colonel Brown Cambridge School, Dehradun, and got his Bachelor of Arts and Law degree from Allahabad University. He was elected the vice president of Allahabad University Students Union and later received a Bachelor of Science in physics from Fergusson College in the Pune University.

Early political career
Singh was elected from Soraon to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1969 as a member of the Congress Party and became the chief whip for the legislative party. He got elected to the Lok Sabha in 1971 and was appointed a Deputy Minister of Commerce by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1974. He served as the Minister of Commerce in 1976–77.

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
He was appointed as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1980 when Indira Gandhi was re-elected after the Janata interlude. As Chief Minister (1980–82), he cracked down hard on dacoity, a problem that was particularly severe in the rural districts of the southwest Uttar Pradesh. He received much favourable national publicity when he offered to resign following a self-professed failure to stamp out the problem, and again when he personally oversaw the surrender of some of the most feared dacoits of the area in 1983. The Behmai massacre provoked outrage across the country thereby causing V. P. Singh to resign in the wake of the killings. as he was the under whom Phoolan Devi surrendered as he saved her life by instructing the police officers to not kill her in the Police encounter to secure the votes of Dalits (though Phoolan's 22 gang members were killed). Singh was an upper caste man and had ruled the vote bank of upper-caste people in Uttar Pradesh for the Indian National Congress. He resumed his post as Minister of Commerce in 1983.

Leader of Rajya Sabha
After he resigned from the position of Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, he was appointed as the leader of Rajya Sabha in the year 1984 and remained so until 1987. Before him the position was assigned to Pranab Mukherjee, who was removed because he then formed his own party, Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress. After Singh's tenure this position was given to N. D. Tiwari. He resigned from Rajya Sabha when he left Congress in 1987.

Member of Lok Sabha
He was elected to Lok Sabha in 1971 from Phulpur. He lost from Allahabad in 1977, but won in 1980 as member of Indira Congress. He resigned from Lok Sabha when he became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in June 1980. After he resigned from Congress and quit as Rajya Sabha member in 1987, he entered Lok Sabha by winning the bye-poll for Allahabad seat vacated by Amitabh Bachchan. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Fatehpur in 1989 and became Prime Minister for 11 months. He was elected from Fatehpur again in 1991, the last time he contested any election.

Administerial skill
He was considered very close to Rajiv Gandhi as well as Indira Gandhi and was loyal to them at a time when the experienced leaders of Congress Party founded a new party, Indian National Congress (Organisation), and empowered the party of Indian National Congress (Requisition). Singh was known as "Mr. Clean" because of his impeccable history and also because of his opposition for the corruption in Bofors deal, which lead the way for him to contest his own party to fight the 1989 Lok Sabha Election and become Prime Minister of India. Singh was responsible for managing the coalition of the Left parties and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) against Rajiv Gandhi to dethrone him in the 1989 elections. He is remembered for the important role that he played in 1989 that changed the course of Indian politics. Singh acted boldly by issuing an arrest warrant against L. K. Advani midway through the latter's Rath Yatra.

Ministries under Central Government
Singh has been on the list as one of the senior-most and most powerful leaders of the Indian National Congress and has held many important ministry positions such as Defence, External Affairs and Finance.

Minister of Finance (1984–1987)
He was called to New Delhi following Rajiv Gandhi's mandate in the 1984 general election. Singh was appointed to the post of Finance Minister in the tenth Cabinet of India, where he oversaw the gradual relaxation of the License Raj (governmental regulation) as Gandhi had in mind. During his term as Finance Minister, he oversaw the reduction of gold smuggling by reducing gold taxes and giving the police a portion of the confiscated gold. He also gave extraordinary powers to the Enforcement Directorate of the Finance Ministry, the wing of the ministry charged with tracking down tax evaders, then headed by Bhure Lal. Singh's efforts to reduce government regulation of business and to prosecute tax fraud attracted widespread praise.

Following a number of high-profile raids on suspected evaders – including Dhirubhai Ambani and Amitabh Bachchan – Gandhi was forced to sack him as Finance Minister, possibly because many of the raids were conducted on industrialists who had supported the Congress financially in the past. However, Singh's popularity was at such a pitch that only a sideways move seemed to have been possible, to the Defence Ministry (in January 1987). Then he succeeded his position to Rajiv Gandhi.

Minister of Defence (1987)
In the year 1987, Singh was appointed on the position of Defence Minister of India for the first time but only for a period less than 3 months from 24 January 1987 to 12 April 1987. He was at that time preceded by Rajiv Gandhi and succeeded in his position by Krishna Chandra Pant. At that time due to his non-corrupt image, he was also called 'Mr. Clean'. He was not able to do any good work for Defence due to holding the position for such a short time. But his biggest work was in the import of Bofors. Once ensconced in South Block, Singh began to investigate the notoriously murky world of defence procurement. After a while, word began to spread that Singh possessed information about the Bofors defence deal (the infamous arms-procurement fraud) that could damage Gandhi's reputation. Before he could act on it, he was dismissed from the Cabinet and, in response, resigned his memberships in the Congress Party (Indira) and the Lok Sabha. The deal of Bofors also played a very crucial role in making of his Prime Minister of India.

Minister of External Affairs (1989)
He was appointed as the 16th Minister of External Affairs of India and remained in the position for another very short period of just 3 days from 2 December 1989 to 5 December 1989. He was succeeded by Inder Kumar Gujral for the position.

Formation of Janata Dal
Together with associates Arun Nehru and Arif Mohammad Khan, Singh floated an opposition party named Jan Morcha. He was re-elected to Lok Sabha in a tightly contested by-election from Allahabad, defeating Sunil Shastri. On 11 October 1988, the birthday of the original Janata coalition's leader Jayaprakash Narayan, Singh founded the Janata Dal by the merger of Jan Morcha, Janata Party, Lok Dal and Congress (S), in order to bring together all the centrist parties opposed to the Rajiv Gandhi government, and Singh was elected the President of the Janata Dal. An opposition coalition of the Janata Dal with regional parties including the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Telugu Desam Party, and Asom Gana Parishad, came into being, called the National Front, with V. P. Singh as convener, NT Rama Rao as president, and P Upendra as a General Secretary.

The National Front fought 1989 General Elections after coming to an electoral understanding with Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left parties (the two main oppositions) that served to unify the anti-Congress vote. The National Front, with its allies, earned a simple majority in the Lok Sabha and decided to form a government. The Bharatiya Janta Party under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani and the Left parties such as the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India declined to serve in the government, preferring to support the government from outside.

In a meeting in the Central Hall of Parliament on 1 December, Singh proposed the name of Devi Lal as Prime Minister, in spite of the fact that he himself had been clearly projected by the anti-Congress forces as the 'clean' alternative to Rajiv Gandhi and their Prime Ministerial candidate. Chaudhary Devi Lal, a Jat leader from Haryana stood up and refused the nomination, and said that he would prefer to be an 'elder uncle' to the Government and that Singh should be Prime Minister. This last part came as a clear surprise to Chandra Shekhar, the former head of the erstwhile Janata Party, and Singh's greatest rival within the Janata Dal. Shekhar, who had clearly expected that an agreement had been forged with Lal as the consensus candidate, withdrew from the meeting and refused to serve in the Cabinet.

Singh was sworn in as India's Prime Minister on 2 December 1989.

Prime Minister (1989 1990)
Singh held office for slightly less than a year, from 2 December 1989 to 10 November 1990. After state legislative elections in March 1990, Singh's governing coalition achieved control of both houses of India's parliament. During this time, Janata Dal came to power in five Indian states under Om Prakash Chautala (Banarsi Das Gupta, Hukam Singh), Chimanbhai Patel, Biju Patnaik, Lalu Prasad Yadav, and Mulayam Singh Yadav, and the National Front constituents in two more NT Rama Rao, and Prafulla Kumar Mahanta. The Janata Dal also shared power in West Bengal under Jyoti Basu, in Kerala under EK Nayanar and in Rajasthan under Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (supporting the Bharatiya Janata Party government from outside). Singh decided to end the Indian army's unsuccessful operation in Sri Lanka which Rajiv Gandhi, his predecessor, had sent to combat the Tamil separatist movement.

In Punjab, Singh replaced the hard-line Siddhartha Shankar Ray as Governor with another former bureaucrat, Nirmal Kumar Mukarji, who moved forward on a timetable for fresh elections. Singh himself made a much-publicised visit to the Golden Temple to ask forgiveness for Operation Blue Star and the combination of events caused the long rebellion in Punjab to die down markedly in a few months.

He also thwarted the efforts of Pakistan under Benazir Bhutto to start a border war with India.

Exodus of Kasmiri Hindus
V. P. Singh faced his first crisis within few days of taking office, when Kashmiri militants kidnapped the daughter of his Home Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (then Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir). His government agreed to the demand for releasing militants in exchange; partly to end the storm of criticism that followed, he shortly thereafter appointed Jagmohan Malhotra, a former bureaucrat, as Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Hindus of the Kashmir Valley, were forced to flee the Kashmir valley as a result of being targeted by JKLF and Islamist insurgents during late 1989 and early 1990. Of the approximately 300,000 to 600,000 Hindus living in the Kashmir Valley in 1990 only 2,000–3,000 remain there in 2016. 19 January 1990 is widely remembered by Kashmiri Hindus as the tragic "genocide day" of being forced out of Kashmir. Before governor Jagmohan took over and the governor's rule was imposed and the army deployed in January 1990, Hindus in the valley, were killed. Of the 2,150 incidents of violence, 2100 attacks were against civilians. The Home Minister at that time Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was blamed for this act and was called it as the support of the Islamic insurgents to establish Islamic state in Jammu and Kashmir (state).

62 Amendment of 1989 and SC-ST Act
In the year 1989, the government by Singh implemented the SC-ST Act of 1989 to prevent the atrocities against the members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. It was enacted when the provisions of the existing laws (such as the Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955 and Indian Penal Code) were found to be inadequate to check these crimes (defined as 'atrocities' in the Act). Recognising the continuing gross indignities and offences against Scheduled Castes and Tribes, the Parliament passed the 'Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989. The objectives of the Act clearly emphasised the intention of the government to deliver justice to these communities through proactive efforts to enable them to live in society with dignity and self-esteem and without fear or violence or suppression from the dominant castes. The practice of untouchability, in its overt and covert form was made a cognizable and non-compoundable offence, and strict punishment is provided for any such offence. The act was finally passed somehow with controversies.

Mandal Commission report
Singh himself wished to move forward nationally on social justice-related issues, which would, in addition, consolidate the caste coalition that supported the Janata Dal in northern India, and accordingly decided to implement the recommendations of the Mandal Commission which suggested that a fixed quota of all jobs in the public sector be reserved for members of the historically disadvantaged called Other Backward Classes.

This decision led to widespread protests among the upper caste youth in urban areas in northern India. OBC reservation (less creamy layer) was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2008. Culturally unique features of the protests and riots were bandhs (a version of a strike), hartals (a version of a municipal shut-down), dharnas (a version of swarming). Articles also highlighted politicians and victims of rioting during the protests. Although not advisable, late summer travel by airline and vehicle during the protests was possible without delays, between capitals New Delhi and Chandigarh, and Shimla for example. Police prevented extending the range and duration of the strikes, and some strike activity from even occurring. A national state of emergency was largely not declared to mobilize army units against any one demonstration. The strike helped to give large popularity to the Mandal Commission report and fueled the political grouping of the OBC castes, which later helped a lot for the strengthening of regional political parties and stronger parties and other than Congress and BJP. Due to the loss of the votes of the backward caste neither party opposed it and on seeing the protest nor parties declined it.

Even after the passing of the reservations for the Other Backward Class, he was never accepted by them, and his upper-caste voters also didn't have to trust him. Afterward, OBC leaders flexed their political power and outnumbered upper and lower castes to gain political power in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan. The OBC leaders rejected sharing power with lower caste leaders.

Tug of war with the Reliance group
In 1990, the government-owned financial institutions like the Life Insurance Corporation of India and the General Insurance Corporation of India stonewalled attempts by the Reliance group to acquire managerial control over Larsen & Toubro. Sensing defeat, the Ambanis resigned from the board of the company. Dhirubhai, who had become Larsen & Toubro's chairman in April 1989, had to quit his position to make way for D. N. Ghosh, former chairman of the State Bank of India.

Ram temple issue and the fall of the coalition
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party was moving its own agenda forward. In particular, the Ram Janmabhoomi agitation, which served as a rallying cry for several Hindu organisations, took on a new life. The party president, LK Advani, with Pramod Mahajan as aide, toured the northern states on a rath – a bus converted to look like a mythical chariot – with the intention of drumming up support. Before he could complete the tour by reaching the disputed site in Ayodhya, he was arrested by Lalu Prasad Yadav's orders at Samastipur on the charges of disturbing the peace and fomenting communal tension. Lalu wanted to prevent the communal clashes which took place at different places for this Rath Yatra, and also Bihar faced a similar scenario in 1989 due to the Shilanyas by Rajiv Gandhi Government. Karsevaks reached the site on 30 October 1990, and by the orders of Mulayam Singh Yadav police fired openly upon the Kar sevaks. A deadly riot took place in Ayodhya on 2 November.

This led to the Bharatiya Janata Party's suspension of support to the National Front government. VP Singh faced the vote of no confidence in the Lok Sabha saying that he occupied the high moral ground, as he stood for secularism, had saved the Babri Masjid at the cost of power and had upheld the fundamental principles which were challenged during the crises. "What kind of India do you want?" he asked of his opponents in Parliament, before losing the vote 142–346;  only a portion of the National Front remaining loyal to him and the Left parties supported him in the vote.

And then, Singh resigned on 7 November 1990.

Chandra Shekhar government
Chandra Shekhar immediately seized the moment and left the Janata Dal with several of his own supporters (including Devi Lal, Janeshwar Mishra, HD Deve Gowda, Maneka Gandhi, Ashoke Kumar Sen, Subodh Kant Sahay, Om Prakash Chautala, Hukam Singh, Chimanbhai Patel, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Yashwant Sinha, VC Shukla, and Sanjay Singh) to form the Samajwadi Janata Party/Janata Dal (Socialist). Although Chandra Shekhar had a mere 64 MPs, Rajiv Gandhi the leader of the Opposition, agreed to support him on the floor of the House; so he won a confidence motion and was sworn in as Prime Minister. Eight Janata Dal MPs who voted for this motion were disqualified by the speaker Rabi Ray. His government lasted only a few months before he resigned and called for fresh elections.

Post-premiership and death
VP Singh contested the new elections but his party was relegated to the opposition chiefly due to the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi (May 1991) during the election campaign, and he later retired from active politics. He spent the next few years touring the country speaking about matters related to issues of social justice and his artistic pursuits, chiefly painting.

In 1992, Singh was the first to propose the name of the future President KR Narayanan as a (eventually successful) candidate for vice president. Later the same year in December, he led his followers to Ayodhya to oppose the Karseva proposed by LK Advani, and was arrested before he could reach the site; the Masjid was demolished by the Karsevaks a few days later. In 1996, the Congress party lost the general elections and Singh was the natural choice of the winning United Front (Singh was one of the forces behind the broad United Front coalition) for the post of Prime Minister. But he declined the offer made to him by communist veteran Jyoti Basu, Bihar strongman Lalu Prasad Yadav and almost all leaders of the Janata family.

In an interview with Shekhar Gupta in July 2005, Singh said that he had resigned from the Rajiv Gandhi cabinet due to differences that arose in the dealing of information regarding commissions taken by Indian agents in the HDW submarine deal, and not due to Bofors. In April 1987, Singh received a secret telegram from J.C.Ajmani, the Indian ambassador in West Germany. The telegram stated that Indian agents had received large commissions in the HDW deal. These commissions amounted to a staggering Rs. 32.55 crore (7% of the agreed price). Singh informed Rajiv Gandhi about this and instituted an inquiry. However, the handling of this case led to differences and Singh finally resigned from the cabinet.

Singh was diagnosed with cancer in 1998 and ceased public appearances. When his cancer went into remission in 2003, he once again became a visible figure, especially in the many groupings that had inherited the space once occupied by his Janata Dal. He relaunched the Jan Morcha in 2006 with actor-turned-politician Raj Babbar as president. After Jan Morcha drew a blank in the 2007 UP elections, Raj Babbar joined the Congress, and Singh's elder son Ajeya Singh took over the reins of the party in anticipation of the 2009 General elections. Ajeya Singh then contested as Jan Morcha candidate from Fatehpur, but lost to Rakesh Sachan of the Samajwadi Party. The Jan Morcha was renamed as the National Jan Morcha in June 2009. A month later, the Jan Morcha merged with the Indian National Congress. Singh was placed under arrest in Ghaziabad as he and his supporters were proceeding towards a hauling where prohibitory orders under Section 144 had been imposed to join the farmers agitating against the acquisition of land at Dadri by the Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Industries and demanding adequate compensation. Later, Singh and CPI General Secretary AB Bardhan were again arrested on the UP border when they were proceeding to Dadri. However, Singh and Babbar were later able to evade the police, reaching Dadri on 18 August 2006, and ploughing the land in solidarity with the farmers.

Singh died after a very long struggle with multiple myeloma and kidney failure at Apollo Hospital in Delhi on 27 November 2008, aged 77. He was cremated at Allahabad on the banks of the River Ganges on 29 November 2008, his son Ajeya Singh lighting the funeral pyre. He was cremated with full state honour.

Personal life
Singh married Princess Sita Kumari, the daughter of the Raja of Deogarh-Madaria, Rajasthan, on 25 June 1955. It was an arranged marriage. He turned 24 on the day of the marriage, and she was 18. Kumari was a Sisodia Rajput descended from Maharana Pratap of Udaipur. The couple had two sons, Ajeya Singh (born 1957), a chartered accountant in New York City, and Abhai Singh (born 1958), a doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. After his death, his elder son Ajeya Singh was sworned as the 42nd Raja Bahadur of the Manda estate in 2007 and in the year 2009 after two years of Singh's death, he merged his party Jan Morcha with Indian National Congress.

Statue
A statue of V.P. Singh is situated at Presidency College, Chennai. It was inaugurated by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin in the presence of V.P. Singh's wife and Akhilesh Yadav on 27 November 2023.

Films

 * 1) Juliet Reynolds, an art critic and a close friend of Singh, made a short documentary on him, titled The Art of the Impossible (45 minutes long), and covers his political and artistic career.
 * 2) Suma Josson made another film on Singh titled One More Day to Live.
 * 3) Shekhar Gupta, had interview with Singh in the year 2007, titled Walk The Talk with V. P. Singh.

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