VANDITA MISHRA: In your book, one of the underlying themes is how one can turn adversity in their favour. Parents of special needs children in India tend not to talk about them in public. For dealing with life and what it sends us, the Buddha's position is the most helpful, the writer suggests. If and when science overcomes suffering, it would cease to be worth living as human beings thereafter. Actually, there was no farm house and she was finally exonerated from all charges. This suborning of institutions, investigative agencies, the police becoming the private army of every chief minister. Nobody believes the Rs 1 lakh crore (stimulus) figure. I would not be as liberal as the Americans phrase it, The right to free speech is the right to protect the speech which I hate. If somebody is spreading untruth, I would not stand up for his rights That is a short-sighted view But I think people are gravitating to see us, those in the media, as a problem and not as a fortress which needs to be defended. This enables the people to change the norms. VANDITA MISHRA: You have provided a great perspective on the decline of the courts. In his latest tell-all, 'The Commissioner For Lost Causes', he opens up about his years as the editor of Indian Express. This is what happened in the judiciary. Arun Shourie (born 2 November 1941[1]) is an Indian economist, journalist, author and politician. You were a member of the Vajpayee Cabinet at that time. There is a thin line between self-righteousness and being self-centred. Then the night comes. ARUN SHOURIE: First, let the government be truthful. And ideology is always an instrument for domination. The heart-rending, and unending, paradox is this: While we have the zest and vitality to live, we belittle life. Aditya has been the centre of his universe for 40 years. (HarperCollins). Arun Shourie 33 books249 followers Indian economist, journalist, author and politician. After losing his wife, HD Shourie systematically reduced his food intake. Is it 'nationalisation'? Sunday 10 July '11. He knows that the senior leaders of the RSS are just froth. But I did not stop my daily routine of meditation for 45 minutes and yoga. I invited you to inaugurate the Global Leprosy Summit in Delhi some years ago. And then I only crystallised that evidence. The appointment of Mr Jaishankar is a wonderful exception to the norm. We fight and bite. He distances himself from all public activity in the end But where these two things come together is that it was not a renunciation of external things but, for instance, of the ego. It is hard to approach the goodness and mystery of life any closer than that. Antulay's collection of funds. We become human, baked in no other furnace. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. Therefore, they were not sent to the Rajya Sabha. Shourie was spotted by Ramnath Goenka, the legendary founder of The Indian Express. They were servants of the suffering people from around the globe. Why would I not have been thrown out? There is a view about the type of person who should be there. [16][17] Shourie was a winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1982, in the Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts category as "a concerned citizen employing his pen as an effective adversary of corruption, inequality and injustice. Arjun Kapoor seems to be a fan of Turkish eggs; heres why you should have them too, IPL 2023 in 360 VR: Immerse yourself in the action with JioDive VR Headset. So, many things have to be done. "How does it matter," he asks, "If I am sacked, say, from The Indian Express, and my tongue is plucked out of me? I dont feel Im a very deep person, he says in his soft voice, but I dont shrink from where the facts lead. His PhD was on the allocation of foreign exchange between ministries, and was a damning condemnation of the Indian system. Do you believe the crisis that we are in is going to leave us with something precious and beautiful? Thats not what I hear about the government today. But despite their style, the books are obviously the work of a brilliant man, with a wide if idiosyncratic learning, a pa s sion for the freedoms of speech and press, and a desire to get beneath current events to address underlying issues. India's No. But, Arun, your wife is, all that notwithstanding, so very privileged because she has a husband like you. 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Some of the investigative series he either wrote or oversaw the prolonged detention of thousands of undertrials, the blinding of prisoners in Bihar to serve as a deterrent, the Kamala case which exposed trafficking of women, the scandal of the missing Kuo Oil deal file, the Antulay trusts and Bofors are landmarks in journalism history and public interest litigation. 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". They were the readers Every time there was a raid on Ramnathjis house and on The Indian Express, the circulation went up. His idea of development is to have a few large projects like the Sardar Patel statue, which turns out to be made in China, or a bullet train from Ahmedabad to Mumbai, rather than spend that money to improve the speed of all trains in India by 15 mph. Every six months you are giving a Rs 1 lakh crore figure and nothing happens. For instance, TN Seshan in the Election Commission, or Y V Reddy in the Reserve Bank of India. Public transport is worse. He deplored factionalism within the party and those who brief journalists to aid their own agenda. Copyright HT Digital Streams Ltd. All rights reserved. He shared his life experiences in the 2011-book Does He Know a Mother's Heart: How Suffering Refutes Religion. Shourie is married to Anita, and they have a son. For instance, in legislatures, it is the party high command which determines who will be your candidate. Yet Shourie and Anita have travelled all over India with their son; eating out in restaurants is one of Adityas great loves. He recalls how she would read him the news, stories, poems and rhymes. Science only blocks our ability to feel pain; never overcomes it. previous 1 2 next . Book reviews, festivals and all things literary. Dark secrets of the sew Who is a Hindu? 12crore) of discretionary spending available to him under Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) to setting up of Bio-Sciences & Bio-engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. What led to the violence in Manipurs Churachandpur before CM N Biren Singhs visit? But no one can feign to not know how prodigious your suffering is. Obscenity over the Internet ? "Irrigators channel water; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters fashion wood; the wise master their minds," he says. Writing in a matter-of-fact tone almost as though he is taking notes and not even properly constructing sentences Shourie devotes the first part of the book to the double tragedy of his life, recounting how, 22 years ago, as they were coping with Aditya, Anita was diagnosed with Parkinsons Disease at the age of 42. The Weight of Love. While Indian societys attitude towards the disabled is becoming more compassionate, he finds that the government is still regressive, despite an estimated 40 to 60 million disabled Indians. [21], Shourie has been described by Christophe Jaffrelot, a political scientist, as "a writer sympathetic to militant Hindu themes"[22] and has publicly voiced support for the aims of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a nationalist Hindutva organisation. The. I can never forget your dismounting from the rostrum to wheel up the mangled victims of leprosy to the stage, without even a distant shadow of revulsion. His world is music, family, family parties. The writer, once a hard-nosed journalist who was editor of both the Times of India and the Indian Express in the late 1980s, recalls moving to religion while rushing a frequently ailing Adit to hospital. Talking to media, Arun Shourie said that CBI decided to register the case in August 2014 based on an anonymous complaint forwarded by Finance Ministry . Jha has blamed Shourie of misinterpreting his writings and making wrong accusation of plagiarism against him. Ambedkar has come to be idolized as no other political leader has. Gandhiji stood before magistrates, so did Lokmanya Tilak. Arun Shourie's new book offers vignettes of the idiosyncrasies that defined the political class and newsrooms of his time and his journey as an editor through it all. I think they may be voting against the alternative and not for the person. The newspapers strength lay in its reporters, he proclaimed. According to Jha, Shourie's thought expressed in the book Eminent Historians, which concerned the NCERT argument, contains "slander" and "has nothing to do with history. He was honoured with the Padma Bhushan by the UPA Government in 2009 for his contribution to journalism. The compassion of the Buddha and personal suffering combined to script a religion of pain and redemption for journalist-politician-writer Arun Shourie, who recalls the trauma of bringing up his disabled son and taking care of his ailing wife in his new book. Book Review : Anita Gets Bail by ArunShourie, Follow Rahul's IAS The Official Blog on WordPress.com. He is often told that he has set an example to others. Model Answer on distinction between Kidnapping and Abduction. [18] As Disinvestment Minister, he led the sale of Maruti, VSNL, Hindustan Zinc among others. [13], Shortly after receiving PhD in economics from Syracuse University Shourie joined World Bank as an economist in 1967 where he worked for more than 10 years. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Far too often I think there is only suffering in God's heart; for God is love. This is true of defensive power. "If Adit has to be toileted, then focus only on lifting him out of bed and toileting him," he writes. I realised that some decisions on technology and products were being made by government officers who had never been to a factory. In 1973, by now a rising star at the World Bank, Shourie again stepped out of line in an essay for Foreign Affairs, arguing that India needed a market economy. Every setback, like every success, is an opportunity to examine our own mind. I had lost intellectual interest. She also insisted on teaching him arithmetic. Arun Shourie was born in Jalandhar, on 2 November 1941asthe son of the Punjabi couple Hari DevShourie and Dayawanti Devasher. Who is a Hindu? When Arun Shourie, scholar, author, economist, journalist, and former union minister approached the Supreme Court charging the Narendra Modi Government of irregularities in the Rafale aircraft deal, readers familiar with Shourie were shocked. 08:30 am Author Arun Shourie. Its a meaningless number. I know this could sound insensitive, given how preoccupied you are with things at home. So they can concentrate on one field of activity, for instance, becoming proficient in cyber warfare. If you had what (former US President Abraham) Lincoln called a team of rivals, then you would be hearing more. He was lying in an incubator, with syringes in his head. As he is a politician, writer, and journalist so his net worth depends upon his published book, a s sets etc. I could not hold back my tears when I heard these words. He has something of the eagle about him a strong nose, wings of grey hair, watchful eyes shaded by stern eyebrows, a readiness to pounce. So it is this regime that is accelerating that process. Situations change and we should not be stuck on a particular number. [1] He developed a reputation as an intelligent, fearless writer and editor who campaigned for freedom of the press, exposed corruption and defended civil liberties such that, in the words of Martha Nussbaum, "his dedication to the truth has won admiration throughout the political spectrum". For example, in Mr Vajpayees case, I found that his natural scepticism would bring out in you the contrary point of view. And this has happened time and again. On Sonia Gandhis birthday, here are so On Sonia Gandhis birthday, here are some rare photographs. A woman came up to me at an airport and I thought she was going to talk the usual things about government. For instance, the deficit should not exceed 3.3 or 4 per cent of the GDP. We were encouraged not to simply report news like stenographers, but what we wrote should be news. I have a son, who cannot speak." From the start, he and Anita incorporated Aditya and the consequences of his disability into their lives, supported by their families. Hes increasing the role of the state in everything. These cracks provide a dangerous opportunity to political rulers to suborn this institution also.Through actual cases and judgmentsof subordinate courts, High Courts, the Supreme CourtArun Shourie enables us to see how frail and vulnerable this 'last pillar standing' has become. All Rights Reserved. We are vulnerable. How Suffering Refutes Religions. Things have been bad in the lower courts for a long time. Much stronger. The newspaperwas a central point for the government's attempts at censorship. [14] In January 1979, Goenka appointed Shourie as executive editor of the newspaper, giving him a carte blanche to do with it as he saw fit. Journalist, politician, and author Arun Shourie has worn many masks. During the Emergency he wrote statements for Jayaprakash Narayan, and in 1977 found his vocation as an investigative journalist and editor, only to divert to supporting the RSS and the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. But the teaching is, at that time, dont focus on the event. One is a steady distancing from the external world. And that is also the teaching of the Gita. I was impressed. [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. "Buddha explains whether the world is finite or infinite or both; whether the Tathagata survives after death or notthere is birth, there is aging, there is death, there is sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair. 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. Otherwise, we would not be getting the types of jerky decisions that we are getting. I would very much like to be corrected on this And certainly, I dont see that much hope in the conduct of our people. But despite their style, the books are obviously the work of a brilliant man, with a wide if idiosyncratic learning, a passion for the freedoms of speech and press, and a desire to get beneath current events to address underlying issues. He would give you the confidence that you could talk to him without any difficulty or fear of reprisal. This was (former PM) Ataljis (Bihari Vajpayee) great quality. VANDITA MISHRA: Do you have a doubt about the course that you eventually took vis--vis this regime? For instance, the lies on social media or Republic TV. [10] His sister is the journalist Nalini Singh. This had just nine keys, like a mobile phone. And the other is (social reformer) Vinoba Bhaves way. The father shouts at the child, curses him. Read 15 years of Mumbai Mirror's journalism here. "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. Devi Lal, as deputy PM, used the choicest abuses and threats against the newspaper for writing about his son (Om Prakash) Chautalas brazen ballot stuffing in the 1990 Meham by-election. It prompts him to question God's ways and infer a few eternal truths, which to the writer are strangely comforting. Since the spoon he raises to his mouth tends to veer off past his mouth, a bendable spoon would help. "My wife cannot sign a cheque," Arun says with extreme candour. "One day as (wife) Anita was driving Adit and herself to school, a jeep coming from the opposite direction lost control. 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. Copyright 2023 The Indian Express [P] Ltd. All Rights Reserved, Arun Shourie: Deeper than this govt systems have decayed over time (But) Mrs Gandhi had some shame, Arun shourie, former union Minister, economist, journalist, author and social activist. But on the question of stimulus packages and so on, I personally have never been enamoured of a number in government policymaking. SHYAMLAL YADAV: What is your view on the RSS? 1 Institute for Law, IAS and Judicial Services Examinations. So, truth would be much more diverse. His wife meanwhile refused to meet with spiritual gurus as her "hopes were raised again and again, and again and again they are shattered." But finally one day, Krishnamurti invited them to his. As Walt Whitman in his > fascinating po. 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. It is being able to implement that in useful projects in the future. But it is not just throwing money and saying I have given the stimulus package. When he was a minister, Shourie would take his son to the cafeteria for lunch. There were no taboos in Shouries selection of topics or his writing style. Now 35, he cannot walk or stand and can see only from the left side of his eyes. It was a terrible month. ARUN SHOURIE: There are two very distinct ways. that I cannot belong exclusively to any group or enclave. He would meet and listen to all sorts of people. Read 15 years of Mumbai Mirror's journalism here. 'Frenny and Other Women You Have Met': New book celebrates 'non-working' Condolences pour in for Tarek Fatah, the Pakistani-Canadian journalist wh Oxford Bookstore announces Art Book Prize longlist. Political leaders, stalwarts who died in 2020. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. He has written over twenty-five bestselling books.. ARUN SHOURIE: I did not want to suggest that, This has been going on for a long time, so what is surprising in it?. He recognised his talent, drive and dedication, even as he sometimes wondered whether the racehorse he had hired would wreck his paper. The number of people living in abject poverty has not been diminished in spite of 25 years of development effort the controls and programs which were instituted to channel benefits to the poor have in fact ensured them for the rich and the powerful.. But what is it that we cannot put on the previous regimes? In a tone void of any semblance of self-pity, near the end of his story Shourie addresses the worsening of Anitas Parkinsons. Click to reveal Since the time of Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, there was not a leader whom Goenka could not talk to and address by their first name. All have the same mocking, superior tone. [15], Shourie has been called a "veteran journalist". She (Gandhi) superseded three judges. We belong together. | Aabid Shafi Even though no one in his right mind could have supported Devi Lal as Prime Minister, I used to quite like him as a. No. We are in his office in Delhi, which is decorated with original cartoons, including one of Indira Gandhi riding a tiger while reading a paper saying Emergency Powers; in the second frame, the tiger looks fatter and the prime minister has disappeared. But Shourie has never wanted to keep Aditya hidden. ARUN SHOURIE: The institutions are the persons who man them at that particular time Individual judges have changed the course of justice in the Supreme Court Institutions are not something abstract, they are the individuals who man them. That is why the problem is much deeper. (Jayaprakash Narayan) wife Prabhavati, exposing Panditiji's neglect of his wife and her ill-treatment by his sisters. This government has shown an almost criminal neglect in improving tax administration. Though he believes, in retrospect, that Singh enacted the farce of pretending to send the letter, to serve as a warning to Rajiv Gandhi, the ruse worked. He wants to shake your hand. The father strokes the sons face, helping him to move his head. [1] He became a fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research in 1976. Arun Shourie on his tale of cerebral palsy and enduring love The Indian economist and former politician has written a reflective book about life with a severely disabled but dearly beloved son. ARUN SHOURIE: I think this regime is the ripening of things which have been happening for 40 years. Also read:Why it's time the Queen of England returns all that she has stolen, Copyright 2023 India Today Group. [30] In 2005, he again pledged Rs. ARUN SHOURIE: First is the complete throwing away of all norms. The Aadhaar Bill and several other Bills were said to be money Bills. Shourie says these two elderly couples devoted the rest of their lives to loving and raising Aditya, the "darling of the family". [1], In 1975, during The Emergency imposed by then prime minister, Indira Gandhi, Shourie began writing for the Indian Express in opposition to what he saw as an attack on civil liberties. Arun Shourie isan Indian journalist, author, and politician who hasserved several decorative positionslike economist with the World Bankin two terms, a consultant to the Planning Commission, editor of the Indian Express, and Timesof India and a cabinet minister during 19982004. If you see the falsehoods which have been uttered, I think they are exceeded only by (US President Donald) Trump. Im absolutely astonished the Prime Minister would go so far just for one state election. 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. But those, too, were part of the fleeting vanities of life. Closest to his daughter Nalini, he began to detach himself from her as well. Soon the stiffness developed into tremors; eventually she was diagnosed with having developed Parkinson's disease. The short answer is adversity does not automatically become a beneficial thing. The delegates of the leprosy summit had no political clout or interest in any context. ARUN SHOURIE: We must continue to do our duty, which is speaking truth to power. She was around 42 at the time..," Shourie looks back in time. Every day I was carrying Anitas milk to him in a test tube.. If they dont listen to the truth as you are portraying it, they will pay for it. I dont give a damn So that is the culmination of a long process. 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.". Soon after the incident, Anita began to feel peculiar sensations on her left side. Similarly, for the inflation rate, I dont think its a wonderful thing for the RBI to just keep sticking out the number and twist all policies to accord with that particular number. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Immediately afterwards, he would tell the editor privately not to pay any heed to those objecting. We hate and spite. But the problem is much deeper than just this regime. He doesnt believe in disinvestment. I wish only to request you to be available to a whole world of people - the broken, bleeding humanity - who need you, a little more than you may otherwise realise. It is not that the present regime is merely continuing what was happening earlier, it is accelerating the decline of one institution after the other. ARUN SHOURIE: No, it all depends upon working at it. We have to work hard at it. They are polemical, ad hominem, often extremely shrill in tone. ANANT GOENKA: World over, more and more people are voting based on identity even at the cost of the economy and jobs. It could have broken down lesser mortals a long time ago. Second, is the perversion of discourse. That hasnt been our family experience at all," he says, seated in the book-lined study of his home in West End, a tranquil, leafy suburb where Indias elite live behind high walls and riotous bougainvillaea. VANDITA MISHRA: In your latest book, Preparing for Death, there are two strands of renunciation. has accused Prannoy Roy and his wife Radhika Roy of . An economist who as The Indian Express editor had taken on the Indira Gandhi regime, Shourie went on to serve as a prominent member of the Vajpayee Cabinet.
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