नामवर सिंह एक निहायत ही जातिवादी किस्म के व्यक्ति थे यह बात लोग जानते है।  लेकिन क्या उन्होंने 

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विजय देव नारायण सही की रचनाओं को चुराया था?  

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स्वर्गीय नामवर सिंह का नाम सुनते मुझे कंचनलता साही की याद आती है जो मेरी प्रोफेसर थीं इंग्लिश डिपार्टमेंट, इलाहबाद यूनिवर्सिटी में. बात १९९८-९९ की होगी. मानस मुकुल दास सर ने एक रोज बताया कि वो मेरे बारे में पूछ रही थीं और अपने घर बुलाया है. मैं गया तो उन्होंने बहुत सारी बातें बताई. उस समय मैंने ये बातें टाइम्स ऑफ़ इंडिया में लिखी भी थी. इनमे से मुख्य बात जो थी वह मैं फिर से बताना चाहता हूँ.

उन्होंने बताया कि उनके पति स्वर्गीय विजयदेव नारायण साही जहा भी साहित्य पर बोलने जाते थे नामवर जी साथ साथ जाते थे एक टेप रिकॉर्डर ले कर. यह सिलसिला लगभग १० साल चला. कभी कभी नामवर सिंह को साही जी के अनुरोध पर भाषण देने के लिए कहा जाता. विजयदेव नारायण साही के आखिरी कुछ वर्षों में नामवर सिंह व्यस्त रहे. साही जी की मृत्यु नवम्बर १९८२ में हो गयी. उसके बाद नामवर सिंह का कंचनलता जी के पास तीन-चार बार फ़ोन आया कि उनके पास साही जी के कुछ भाषणों की रिकॉर्डिंग है जो वह कंचनलता जी को देना चाहते है. कंचनलता जी को एक वर्ष बाद दिल्ली जाने का समय मिला तो वह नामवर सिंह से मिलीं. एक घंटे की मीटिंग में नामवर सिंह ने उस टेप रिकॉर्डिंग की चर्चा नहीं की. जब वह जाने लगीं तो याद दिलाया कि वह रिकॉर्डिंग देना चाहते थे तो नामवर सिंह ने कहा उनके पास तो ऐसी कोई रिकॉर्डिंग नहीं है. बाद के समय में नामवर सिंह ने काफी लिखा.

भक्त यह न समझें कि मैं नामवर सिंह को जज कर रहा हूँ. उनके बारे में एक अच्छी बात भी सुनी है. जब उनके सरे भाई (काशीनाथ सिंह भी) आपस में प्रॉपर्टी के लिए झगड़ रहे थे तब नामवर सिंह ने बटवारा कर दिया और उन्होंने खुद कुछ नहीं लिया.

Ayush Chaturvedi: Boy who said what many men won’t

His face is now familiar to many social media users, thanks to a speech the Class XI pupil delivered on Mahatma Gandhi

By Piyush Srivastava in Lucknow

• Published 19.09.19, 3:35 AM
• Updated 19.09.19, 3:35 AM

• 2 mins read
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If the Danish child who swam against the adult tide to speak the truth about the “Emperor’s New Clothes” is reborn in India, he will probably look like Ayush Chaturvedi.

Ayush’s face is now familiar to many social media users, thanks to a speech the Class XI pupil delivered at his school on September 9 on Mahatma Gandhi.

Among the lines that are making waves, two stand out: “I want to say that there was no bigger Hindu than Gandhi. But the people of other religions didn’t fear his ‘Hey Ram’ because Gandhi was a symbol of secularism in India.”

Ayush had begun with a bang but the opening lines are not on the clip that has been circulated widely on social media.

“Ye kisne kahaa aapse aandhi ke saath hun,

Main Godse ke daur me Gandhi ke saath hun.

(Who told you that I am swept up in the storm, I stand by Gandhi in the time of Godse).”

“Actually, the recording of my speech was started when I had already spoken this line,” Ayush, 17, told The Telegraph from his home on the phone on Wednesday.

His home happens to be in Varanasi, represented in the Lok Sabha by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Ayush, a student of the Central Hindu Boys School in Varanasi, explained why he chose the couplet penned by Imran Pratapgarhi, an Urdu poet: “Kyonki kuchh takatwar log aaj kal Godse ki pooja kar rahe hain (It is because these days some powerful people are worshiping Godse).”

Told that some powerful people are also being compared with Mahatma Gandhi these days, Ayush said: “I know what exactly you mean. They know that rejecting Gandhi wouldn’t be so easy and so they try to compare themselves with the Father of the Nation. Muh me Ram, bagal me chhoori (Ram on the lips, a dagger in the sleeve).”

When he delivered the speech at the school founded by Annie Besant in 1898, Ayush knew he was speaking against the tide. “Dekh lenge jo hoga,” he said, asked whether he did not fear a backlash. “If you have to speak about Gandhi, you have to do so in a manner that leaves an impact.”

Son of Ganesh Shankar Chaturvedi, who runs the Assi Nadi Bachao Sangharsh Samiti, Ayush says he has learnt good things from his father. “My mother is a homemaker and our backbone,” he added. 

“Initially I was asked to speak on Kaka Hathrasi, a humorist poet. But the subject was changed to Gandhi because we were celebrating his 150th birth anniversary. So I spoke my heart out,” Ayush said.

Neeru Wahal, the principal of the school, told this newspaper that the institution has been celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of Gandhi on the direction of the CBSE.

“I try to involve every student in personality development. We have four houses in our school — Shivaji, Tagore, Ashoka and Raman. Ayush is in Tagore house,” she said.

“Ours is a little-known school but we have very talented students. They are asked to deliver a speech in the morning session and they speak brilliantly,” Wahal added. 

Headmaster reinstated, at new school in UP

Suspension revoked with ‘strict warning’

By Piyush Srivastava in Lucknow

• Published 20.10.19, 1:22 AM
• Updated 20.10.19, 6:04 AM

• 2 mins read
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Ali was suspended — allegedly under Sangh parivar pressure — after a video showed the pupils singing an Urdu prayer written by Iqbal, a proponent of Pakistan and the writer of the Indian patriotic song Sare Jahan Se Achchha.(Shutterstock)

The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday night revoked the suspension of a headmaster who was punished because his students had sung a prayer written by the late poet Allama Iqbal, but transferred him to a different school.

Mohammad Furqan Ali, however, said he might not join the new school, which is about 10km from his previous school. He said he was “not happy” with the transfer because of the threat it posed to his old school, where most pupils have been boycotting classes since his suspension on Monday.

Just five of the 267 students were present on Thursday and 33 on Friday at the Gayaspur Primary School in Pilibhit district.

“I have received a WhatsApp message from the (education) department asking me to report for duty as headmaster at the Bakhtawar Lal Primary School in Bisalpur. It said I was being reinstated with a strict warning,” Ali told The Telegraph.

“I want to ask the government whether it’s serious about running the Gayaspur school, which is on the verge of closure because of the students’ absence. I’m not happy with this decision. Can they bring the students back to my previous school without me?”

He added: “I’m sad about my students and am thinking of not joining the new school. If the students of Gayaspur refuse to study without me, I’m not ready to join another school, either.”

Ali was suspended — allegedly under Sangh parivar pressure — after a video showed the pupils singing an Urdu prayer written by Iqbal, a proponent of Pakistan and the writer of the Indian patriotic song Sare Jahan Se Achchha.

It was alleged the prayer featured at the morning assembly, where government school pupils are supposed to sing the national anthem. Ali says the assembly sings the national anthem every day, and that Iqbal’s prayer was sung inside the classroom by the Class VIII Urdu language students whose textbook features the poem.

Mobin Khan, assistant resource coordinator of primary schools in the area, said he had visited the Gayaspur school on Thursday and Friday, and was surrounded both days by the few pupils present.

“They asked why Ali had been suspended when he had done no wrong,” he said. “Ali is a wonderful teacher and the children are missing him.”

Khan said the Iqbal poem was printed on the cover of the Urdu language textbooks for Classes I to VIII.

Rehan Hussain Chisti, who has replaced Ali as headmaster at the Gayaspur school, said: “Some 15 to 20 students had come on Friday to tell me they wouldn’t attend classes till Ali’s suspension was revoked. I told them not to get involved in such things but they left anyway.”

He said he would visit the children’s homes on Sunday and request their parents to send them to school.

Ram Awatar Singh, whose son studies in Class V at the Gayaspur school, said: “My son has stopped eating and refuses to attend school. I hope the government reinstates Ali Sahab soon.”

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