Wednesday 12 October 2016

Remembering Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia

Today the nation paid homage to one of its greatest sons ever produced, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia. On this date, 49 years ago, Dr. Lohia, an audacious freedom fighter, a renowned socialist bade adieu to the world leaving behind his great legacy of informed thoughts. 

Dr. Lohia continues to be recounted in the nation for his spirit of squarely voicing the needs of the bourgeois and the ones who were unable to care for themselves and his life will continue to be deemed as a legendary one, an idol to be followed and loved by others.

Dr. Lohia was born on March 23,1910 in Akbarpur, Uttar Pradesh in a prosperous family. From the commencement only, he held visionary plans for the nation to rise up out of the shackles of slavery. To give fire to his thoughts, Mr. Lohia joined the Vidyasagar College, under the University of Calcutta and in 1929, earned his B.A. degree. He decided to attend Frederick William University (today's Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) over all prestigious educational institutes in Britain to convey his dim view of British philosophy. He soon learned German and received financial assistance based on his outstanding academic performance, studying national economy as his major subject as a doctoral student from 1929 to 1933.

After coming back, with all his might, he relentlessly worked for the freedom struggle and continued to inspire the masses through his contructive writings and thesis on different facets of attaining independence. He is generally known for his contribution to the Quit India Movement, after which he gained prominence around the nation. With his ingenious plans, Mr. Lohia played a huge role in making Quit India Movement a huge success throughout the nation to give a clarion call to the Britishers that Indians had started their campaign for  "Poorna Swaraj " or complete independence.

Though we still remember Mr. Lohia, but still it's a matter of shame for the nation that we have indeed discountenanced his vision. The India which he dreamt of, is still a long way to go. He had a dream that one day out of sweltering heat of discrimination, crimes and terror, India would rise as the oasis of freedom. He had a dream that one day India would be at the helm of all political affairs around the world. He was not satisfied with denizens of India dying of starvation, he was not satified with the great financial and social divide, present in India contemporarily. His par excellence thoughts never dreamt of an India vulnerable due to its religions or castes but dream of an India strenghthened by its diversity and its brotherhood.

Today, we face the challenge of making the vision and dream of such a great patriot come true. Today, each and every Indian has a need to adopt the dreams of Mr. Lohia. Rather than paying homage to him just as a formality today we need to decide whether we want to rise with his vision or perish away in oblivion and ultimately this onus is on our shoulder and we are the ones who need to engender that change in the course of history.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

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