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  The Calm in the Storm: The Fearless Character of Dr. C. V. Ananda Bose By M.N.M. Vasudev Across decades and across roles, as a student, civil servant, reformer, and statesman, Dr. C. V. Ananda Bose has been distinguished by a rare quality of being able to remain composed and decisive in the very heart of challenges, however daunting these may be. His life offers repeated a testimony to a temperament that does not recoil from any crisis, but faces it head-on with clarity, balance, and resolve. Those who have observed him closely describe this not as cultivated courage, but as an instinctive steadiness, of what may be called a ‘steady-step’ approach to adversity. This equanimity was not acquired late in life. It came to the fore early, long before any office, or authority, shaped his conduct. As a boy of twelve in Kottayam, young Ananda Bose once found himself unexpectedly caught in the midst of a violent political procession. What had begun as a public demonstration rapidl...