Veerappa Moily presents copy of his new book to President

Former Union minister and senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Friday presented the first copy of his book 'The Flaming Tresses of Draupadi' to President Pranab Mukherjee.

Speaking about the book at a function organised at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Mukherjee said the Mahabharata and the Ramayana have had a profound influence on the Indian minds and thought process and in both the cases the central theme of these epics have been on women.

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Mukejree said he has known Moily for over five decades, starting from he being Karnataka in-charge of the Congress in the 1970s and then as ministers in the Manmohan Singh cabinet.