Hyderabad, April 1 -- Not many know that the inception of the Hyderabad Central University (HCU), which later became University of Hyderabad (UOH), has a very strong connection with the Gandhi family.

The sight of the fallen Telangana martyrs, many of who were gunned down in front of Dwaraka lodge near Lakdikapul during the 1969 Telangana movement for separate statehood, had moved the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi so much that she not only rushed to Hyderabad immediately, but kept assuring the people that she was there for them.

She held talks with the leaders from both the regions and came up with the Eight-point Formula. One of those points was how the University of Hyderabad got established through an Act of Parliament (Act No. 3...