Manas Ranjan Mahapatra
I am fighting like my father who never surrendered to time or wrong people. I may break, but not bend. Check the facts regarding the efficiency and honesty of Nehru again. You can’t fool the World! For Modi nothing is disappointing. Even if in government programmes he doesn’t forget to target the opposition. The useless unemployed PM of the world.
Lata Mangeshkar never met Savarkar in her lifetime, but Sanghis have begun circulating their fake meeting photographs to fool the people. She was only 18 years old when Savarkar was arrested as a convict in the Mahatma Gandhi Murder case. Moreover, Savarkar was never a national hero. Why should the Nightingale of Music meet a criminal?
Why is Modi still hiding the failure of FY 2019-20? New Sanghi Coverts are more dangerous than the real RSS people. Similarly, blind followers are more dangerous than the hardcore BJP cadre. Beware of such wild animals!
CGHS facilities should be available throughout the country even in small towns like Puri. A pensioner is charged for CGHS facilities. States have made the facility for free or subsidized healthcare for their bureaucrats and MPs, MLAs for the last four decades. What the Modi Government is doing for good governance except holding webinars, virtual meetings, rallies, and delivering speeches ?
Many Pakistanis are in disguise in India. There are many Pro Americans like Modi too whose friends have plundered the country in the last seven years of Modi era for him and have fled to US or England. Trump-Modi jointly facilitated Covid 19 Flu has by now claimed a crore lives in the world.
A 94-year-old man was thrown out of a rented house by the landlord for not paying the rent. The old man had hardly any belongings except an old bed, some aluminum utensils, a plastic bucket and a mug etc. The old man requested the owner to give him some time to pay the rent. The neighbors also took pity on the old man, and they convinced the landlord to give him some time to pay the rent. The landlord reluctantly gave him some time to pay the rent. The old man took his belongings inside.
A journalist passing by stopped and saw the whole scene. He thought it would be useful to publish the matter in his newspaper. He even thought up a headline, “Cruel landlord kicks old man out of rented house for money.” Then he took some pictures of the old tenant and also took some pictures of the rented house.
The journalist went and told his press owner about the incident. The owner of the press looked at the pictures and was shocked. He asked the journalist, did he know the old man? The journalist said no.
The next day the big news appeared on the front page of the newspaper. The title was “Gulzarilal Nanda, the former Prime Minister of India, leading a miserable life”. It was further written in the news about how the former Prime Minister was unable to pay the rent and how he was thrown out of the house. It was commented that nowadays freshers also earn a lot of money. Whereas a person who has been a former Prime Minister twice and has also been a Union Minister for a long time, does not even have a house of his own.
Actually Gulzarilal Nanda got Rs. 500 per month as pension offered by former PM Indira Gandhi in 1972. But, he rejected this money saying that he did not fight for the allowance of freedom fighters. Later friends persuaded him to accept saying that he had no other source of income. With this money, he used to live by paying his rent.
The next day the then Prime Minister PV Narsimha Rao sent ministers and officials with a fleet of vehicles to that house. The landlord was stunned to see the fleet of so many VIP vehicles. It was then that he came to know that his tenant, Mr. Gulzarilal Nanda was the former Prime Minister of India. The landlord immediately bowed down at the feet of Gulzarilal Nanda for his misbehavior.
Officials and VIPs requested Gulzarilal Nanda to accept government accommodation and other facilities. Mr. Gulzarilal Nanda did not accept his offer by saying that what is the use of such facilities in this old age. Till his last breath, he lived as a true Gandhian, like an ordinary citizen. The IK Gujral government honored him with Bharat Ratna.
Just compare his life with the politicians of the present times. MPs , MLAs pass the resolution in house themselves for their salary and pension ! Unlike Gulzarilal Nanda, my father, who was a freedom fighter and his contemporary , died penniless without building a house for himself. His party was in government twice in the state and he was General Secretary of the party.
What a glorious tribute to the Nightingale and Voice of India by one of our finest public personalities – Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi. We were blessed to have been around in the era of Lata Mangeshkar.
‘There are some people on social media throwing dirt at the persona of Lata Mangeshkar calling her “scheming”, “jealous”, and even, “a bad person”. My answer to them would be to shut up. When someone passes away, we don’t talk ill about her/him. Even if a person had some personality flaws, one should not utter those at such a time. Nobody is perfect and perhaps she wasn’t too. But should that be debated right now?
Immediately after her passing away? Can this evaluation not wait?
Let us remember her contribution to Indian music and to India’s day to day life. Let us celebrate her life. Speaking ill about a dead person in public displays utter lack of sensitivity.’
Since Lata Mangeshkar is no more, her personal life should not be discussed. But, people should know about her immortal love story with Cricket Administrator Rajsingh Dungarpur. One should write a book on her.
No one is paying any heed to the plight of the senior citizens. And this Govt is both deaf and dumb for general public but has tremendous love for the Corporates which indicates the reduction of corporate tax from 30 to 15% during these Modi days. Lost our glory in India in the last seven years. Why is Modi still hiding the failure of FY 2019-20 ? Best ever parliament speech by Rahul Gandhi this time . Very disciplined and factual argument.
RSS once spread a rumor that India was offered permanent membership in the Security Council of UNO which was opposed and termed as fake by Nehru in the press. Some miscreants are now busy spreading that fake news again. We need to be careful and should expose these miscreants.
Best ever parliament speech by Rahul Gandhi this time . Very disciplined and factual argument. Great Statesman like his Maternal Grandfather.
(Fourth in a series by Manas Ranjan Mahapatra, former editor of National Book Trust, New Delhi.Views are personal)In search of Sparrows and the Nightingale by Manas Mahapatra
