 It was Jayashankar who offered lime juice to the TRS president when the latter broke his famous fast for Telangana in December 2009.He use to say about Telangana people "Etti kaina, Matti kaina manode undala" meaning, for lighting the pyre or for farming, it should be our people.Professor Jayashankar was Registrar of the then Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL) before being appointed Vice-chancellor of Kakatiya University in 1991.