Short answers, pulled from the story.
Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya was an Indian independence activist, politician, banker, and writer born on the 24th of November 1880 in Gundugolanu village, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh. He served as the first Governor of Madhya Pradesh and helped establish Andhra Bank in 1923.
Pattabhi Sitaramayya served on the Congress Working Committee for many years and was President of the Andhra Provincial Congress Committee from 1937 to 1940. He ran for the Congress presidency in 1939, losing to Subhas Chandra Bose, and won the presidency in 1948 with Jawaharlal Nehru's backing.
Pattabhi Sitaramayya kept a detailed diary of day-to-day prison life during his three-year detention in Ahmednagar Fort following the launch of the Quit India Movement in 1942. That diary was later published as Feathers and Stones.
Andhra Bank was founded by Pattabhi Sitaramayya on the 28th of November 1923 in Machilipatnam, with the financial support of Srimantu Raja Yarlagadda Sivarama Prasad Bahadur. The bank's head office, named Pattabhi Bhavan in his honour, is now located in Hyderabad.
The J.V.P. Committee was named for Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, and Pattabhi Sitaramayya. It formally rejected the reorganisation of Indian states on linguistic lines, a decision later overturned in practice after Potti Sriramulu's 56-day hunger strike led to the formation of Andhra State.
Pattabhi Sitaramayya authored Feathers and Stones, The History of the Congress (published in 1935 with an introductory note by Rajendra Prasad), and Gandhi and Gandhism. Feathers and Stones was drawn from the diary he kept during three years of imprisonment in Ahmednagar Fort.