Arun Shourie on his days at The Indian Express, what's changed since then, what's new about the current establishment, the media's challenges and the weakening of institutions. Much stronger. Book Review : Anita Gets Bail by Arun Shourie - Rahul's IAS - The I told Modi that a leaders task is to pull the levers like a train controller in a signal box: it is not to check the train or tap its wheels. When Indira Gandhi decided to take over his newspaper during the Emergency, he fought back fiercely. The same thing happened to migrants But could the PM and his secretariat not have foreseen this? VANDITA MISHRA: What are the crises that are special to this regime? previous 1 2 next . (HarperCollins). The bubble of human self-sufficiency bursts. He joined hands with Arun Shourie Indian Express chairman Ramnath Goenka for a crusade against Dhirubhai Ambani's Reliance Industries. ( 163 ) $24.99. And so we should not think of the two traditions as either/or. Nothing can be gained by brooding on the past or imagining future torments, including the obvious question of how Aditya will be cared for when Shourie, 70, is gone. We do anything but live as human beings. This suborning of institutions, investigative agencies, the police becoming the private army of every chief minister. The day his son was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, Arun Shourie was working as an economist with the World Bank in Washington. Arun Shourie. Gradually, such children have become more visible in recent years.". Not very often, some one comes up who speaks truth to power. I had lost intellectual interest. I dont give a damn So that is the culmination of a long process. I am certain that this applies to the Chinese intrusions, the management of the economy and the reforms in courts. If it is the same type of person, then you are not going to get contrary advice, Also Read |Laxmi Vilas hotel case: Arun Shourie furnishes personal bonds in CBI court, HC to hear case today, Have the Chinese gone back? Act, not only without the expectation of fruit but also without the illusion that you are the actor. Adit, he says, has a very high threshold of pain"He has taught himself to bear unbelievable amount of it," Shourie says. It is the type of persons who were offered to the public and the public chose So that then determines how the institution will behave. He emphasised his views in a cultural conference called Tomorrows India Global Summit and added that the pressure to bring about change in the present electoral system should come from the society. Yet another was a keyboard to allow access to around 50 regularly visited websites on the internet. Shourie has the anecdotal reasoning of Nirad Chaudhuri married to the writing style of Robert Ludlum. Mostly, he follows the path prescribed by Buddhist teachers for dealing with difficult situations. Then cabinet secretary Vinod Pandey had relied on his blind faith in astrology to run the country. Here a few take-aways/main themes/ideas from the book: The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceedingly fine? Read 15 years of Mumbai Mirror's journalism here. They include perspective, as being sacked, receiving an award or promotion, or publishing another book is not of the slightest significance to Aditya. [6] Arun Shourie speaks about his personal life and reviews his life events as case diaries "My writing is like the case diary of an advocate which is aimed at winning a case" and his opinions on journalism. ARUN SHOURIE: Mr Vajpayee was in the RSS but I dont think his worldview was conditioned by that kind of thinking. The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards. One is a steady distancing from the external world. Shourie also provided a personal surety of Rs.2 lakh bail bond. Thats not what I hear about the government today. Even if murder has been going on for a long time, that does not justify my murdering anybody today. As Walt Whitman in his > fascinating po. He worked there for 6 years and resigned in 1983 to join India Today as a reporter. They were the readers Every time there was a raid on Ramnathjis house and on The Indian Express, the circulation went up. ARUN SHOURIE: There are two very distinct ways. How can we separate suffering from love? He was lying in an incubator, with syringes in his head. Adit cannot walk. [19], Shourie was among many who objected to The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986, which the government headed by Rajiv Gandhi proposed to alleviate communal violence and retain Muslim votes. [23] He has said that, although he sees a danger from perceived Muslim violence such as the Godhra train burning incident of 2002, people have tended to redefine the "Hindutva" term. For 24x7 updates on Mumbai and Maharashtra, Arun Shourie with wife Anita, his mother, Dayawanti Devasher, and son Aditya, whos in the lap of his father, HD Shourie. I don't pretend that I do. He recognised his talent, drive and dedication, even as he sometimes wondered whether the racehorse he had hired would wreck his paper. How Suffering Refutes Religions. We are the majority. That is what the child will need as he grows up a net of love and security." Jha has blamed Shourie of misinterpreting his writings and making wrong accusation of plagiarism against him. You do look frailer now than you did when I saw you a few years ago. Shourie speaks fondly of his mother-in-law, Maltiji, who looked after Aditya for 25 years despite her crippling arthritis. (Express archive photo by Sunil Saxena 28.10.1995), Frenny and Other Women You Have Met: New book celebrates non-working women, their struggles, Vineet Gills Here and Hereafter is a deep dive into the pioneering work of Nirmal Verma, In A Resurgent Northeast Narratives of Change, bureaucrat Ashish Kundra offers a nuanced and forward-looking account of Northeast 2.0, A Parsi could belong to any religion or none: Coomi Kapoor, https://images.indianexpress.com/2020/08/1x1.png. "Thirty years ago, people averted their eyes," says Shourie. He recalls how she would read him the news, stories, poems and rhymes. Arun Shourie with his son Aditya, 35, who has cerebral palsy, a condition that disrupts the 'wiring' between the brain and the rest of the body. Nobody believes the Rs 1 lakh crore (stimulus) figure. And their idea is to disrupt and disorient a society in two minutes through (interference in) integrated power network, railway network, air traffic control systems, financial records, broadcasting systems, telecom systems. Arun Shourie writes about bringing up his son Aditya, afflicted with cerebral palsy for many years now, in his new book, Does He know a mother's heart? Shourie had studied in India before going abroad in the early 1960s. His alertness is intellectual but also practical: his wife Anita, who has Parkinsons disease, and his son Aditya, who has cerebral palsy, are both upstairs, and they may need his help at any time. You did not do it to impress anyone. Shourie wrote articles that tried to show that the treatment of women as required by the Quran would in fact offer them protection, although the application of Islamic law in practice was oppressing them. I would very much like to be corrected on this And certainly, I dont see that much hope in the conduct of our people. Arun Shourie: Deeper than this govt systems have decayed over time In the 1970s, he threw up a good position at the World Bank to return to India at a time when his more ambitious contemporaries were leaving. But the one thing that suffering has done for me is to break the walls of my self-enclosed existence and help me discover a wider family. Claimed by the government to be a reinforcement of India's constitutional secularism, it was widely criticised by both Muslims and Hindus. Suffering is intensely personal. "[27][28][29], In 2000, Shourie pledged the entire amount (Rs. Where is he? Lets be truthful and have confidence in the people of India. The liberals among them, says Ainslie Embree, saw it as "a capitulation to the forces of Islamic obscurantism, a return to the thirteenth century"; the Hindu revivalist critics thought it was "weakening Indian unity". There was a wonderful sentence that Justice K Subba Rao (known for his dissenting judgments) had said, I am writing for the brooding sense of the future We should not have that much empathy for people. Im absolutely astonished the Prime Minister would go so far just for one state election. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. But those sitting as law ministers today were supposed to reverse course. The test of human greatness is not the size or splendour of some chair or the other. In coping with his wife and son, Shourie says that the principle that has kept him sane for the past 35 years, through all the complications and scares over their conditions, has been to "focus only on the task at hand". Cloudflare Ray ID: 7c06cbd72f5f3b50 It is hard to approach the goodness and mystery of life any closer than that. The gloss and sheen of wealth and prestige wear off. And in the case of the judiciary, the way to ensure accountability is to continually monitor judgments. When he was a minister, Shourie would take his son to the cafeteria for lunch. I am not sure of the extent to which he is listened to Secondly, its very good that the CDS (Chief of Defence Staff) has been created. But, Arun, your wife is, all that notwithstanding, so very privileged because she has . Is it 'nationalisation'? And internally, the country is grappling with the economy. Jha criticized Shourie's book Eminent Historians, which concerned the NCERT textbook controversies, that it contains "slander" and "has nothing to do with history. Stay tuned for the latest in legislative updates, Op-eds by RahulsIAS team, Guest posts by legal experts on contemporary legal issues and vexed questions of law, latest case law, model answers and Interviews. ARUN SHOURIE: You could be angry. Why would I not have been thrown out? There is a view about the type of person who should be there. Nobody can know everything So to make it a practice to stay away from all expertise and push out anybody who is regarded as an expert, opens not just the regime but the country to great danger. In 1975, during The Emergency introduced by the then prime minister, Indira Gandhi, Arun Shourie started working for the Indian Express against what he saw as an attack on civil liberties. ARUN SHOURIE: Not at all. Both he, and later Shourie, regularly appealed to the courts as the forum for last appeal. "One day as (wife) Anita was driving Adit and herself to school, a jeep coming from the opposite direction lost control. According to Martha Nussbaum, the traits of his writings are: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, recognisably the creation of a smart, determined, muckraking journalist, They are polemical, ad hominem, often extremely shrill in tone. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. And the great thing is that you are stronger not for your sake alone, but for the sake of others as well. Before the Bihar elections, he described the NDA government as Congress plus a cow, and said that Prime Minister Modi was keeping silent on incidents like the Dadri killing while his colleagues stirred up trouble. I thank my friend: PM Modi to Bill Gates for appreciating Mann Ki Baat. On that occasion, you not only inaugurated the event with winsome dignity, but also moved the hearts of all delegates by the way you related to the leprosy-ravaged people who attended the meet. He created a fame as an intelligent, fearless writer and editor who conducted a movement for freedom of the press, uncovered corruption and defended civil rights such that, in the words of Martha Nussbaum, "his dedication to the truth has won admiration throughout the political spectrum". Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Also read:Why it's time the Queen of England returns all that she has stolen, Copyright 2023 India Today Group. Gandhiji stood before magistrates, so did Lokmanya Tilak. he asks. The Indian Express stories regularly sparked off a furore in Parliament, compelling the government to respond. Arun Shourie | Bio - age, net worth, married, wife, and more "Thats why I cant understand the way Indian families are portrayed in television soap operas the scheming mother-in-law and the devious daughter-in-law. Sometimes, his powerful friends would protest against an item in the newspaper and the proprietor could simply feign ignorance and chastise his editor roundly in front of the complainant. He is married to Neelam Jolly. [12] In his 2020-book Preparing for Death, he wrote about dealing with mortality, and added that others can approach this eventuality by looking at the examples of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Gautama Buddha, Ramana Maharshi, Mahatma Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave. Though trained as an economist, he left an indelible mark on Indian journalism with his insightful, well-researched crusading campaigns which, at times, changed the course of politics; brought about new legislation and focused public attention on governmental corruption. On Sonia Gandhis birthday, here are so On Sonia Gandhis birthday, here are some rare photographs. Which has it been for you? Political leaders, stalwarts who died in 2020. Shourie discloses that once he rushed from Goenkas residence to the Rashtrapati Bhavan to urge president Zail Singh not to sign a letter calling for the dismissal of Rajiv Gandhi as prime minister. But when you age, someone else will decide what you wear and where you go. Arun Shourie - Wikipedia Here Arun takes us into the heart of human sorrow from where we may take a measure of all human vanities. He wants to shake your hand. The father strokes the sons face, helping him to move his head. 08:30 am Author Arun Shourie. One night, you decide and carry out demonetisation. ARUN SHOURIE: No, it all depends upon working at it. Another of his trademarks was deluging a reader with details, analysing documents whether files or rule books or judgments. According to Shourie, VP Singh as PM pulled the Mandal Commission (in 1990) out of cold storage simply to counter the threat from Devi Lal. Over the last couple of decades, B.R. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. When Shourie asked her what purpose it could serve since Aditya was never going to use it, she replied: "But just see his sense of achievement when he gets the answer right.". Those who build walls between people are the very demons of darkness. Obscenity over the Internet ?
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