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221:, a local daily. Its editor Mr. R. Narayana Iyengar, a full-fledged Swadeshi was the one who recruited Padmanabhan. Narayana Iyengar was so ardent a Swadeshi that his paper would advertise only for Swadeshi Products and nothing else.
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