Historian Vikram Sampath reveals how Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar was sacked over his composition about Veer Savarkar

The second quantity of Swatantaryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar has been launched by creator and historian Vikram Sampath and it mentions many historic incidents that had been conveniently omitted by the Marxist historians who’ve been dominant in educational and mental circles to date.One such incident, which exposes the illiberalism of the Congress occasion and its pet intellectuals, is the sacking of musician Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar from All India Radio for composing music to Savarkar’s well-known poem.Years later, in an interview with ABP Manja, Pandit Mangeskar, who’s the brother of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle, revealed that he was fired from All India Radio for the music composition on Savarkar’s well-known poem.“I was working in All India Radio at that time. I was 17 years old and my salary was Rs 500 per month. It may be peanuts today but Rs 500 was considered a big fat salary during that time…but I was summarily fired from the All India Radio because I chose to create a musical composition for Veer Savarkar’s famous poem ‘Ne majsi ne parat matrubhoomila, sagara pran talmalala‘,” Mangeshkar stated in Marathi.Sampath has talked about this incident within the second quantity of the ebook on Savarkar titled Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966. In an interview with Navika Kumar of Times Now on his new ebook, Sampath stated, “Liberals don’t allow a different point of view to thrive. In India particularly, there is a very narrow narrative that needs to be pushed when it comes to history.”Well stated @vikramsampath pic.twitter.com/jzlo9G7VZR— Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳 (@ShefVaidya) July 26, 2021“In post-independent India, there has been one dominant hegemonic version of history particularly of the freedom movement, invasions and troubling aspects of our long and stormy past,” he added.The incident exhibits that cancel tradition was distinguished among the many left-liberal intelligentsia even in these days, and never a brand new phenomenon; it received extra recognition with the emergence of social media.Savarkar is a public icon within the nation, particularly within the states like Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. In Maharashtra, even NCP venerates Savarkar, given widespread sentiment in favour of the liberty fighter.Savarkar has all the time been a hero, a freedom fighter, and a Nationalist poet in public folklore. But, the Congress governments- within the state in addition to centre- prevented any confrontation on the celebration of Savarkar, as the favored model has no official/authorities recognition.But since BJP got here to energy, there was official recognition of the one who is a hero among the many plenty of the nation. Two biographies of Savarkar have been printed within the hole of lower than a 12 months by Vikram Sampath and Vaibhav Purandare. Both have been appreciated as work of appreciable scholarship and had been effectively obtained by critics, even these on the alternative aspect of the political spectrum.So far, underneath the varied regimes of the ‘Secular’ Congress occasion, the contribution of Savarkar was severely undermined, because the Congress didn’t just like the Hindutva icon, whose rise would have helped events like BJP and vice-versa.Savarkar was the one who envisioned the thought of full freedom and liberation from the chains of British slavery. In reality, the unconventional poet/author was a trendsetter – man of many firsts, resembling being the primary one to provide an in depth description of the 1857 Freedom Struggle, which irked the British into banning it even earlier than its publication.Congress has all the time been anxious that with widespread sentiment and official backing, Savarkar can turn out to be a public icon of Gandhi’s stature, and be commemorated all through the size and breadth of the nation. Unfortunately for Congress, his reminiscence has already been reinvigorated by the rise of PM Narendra Modi. This wouldn’t solely hurt the Congress occasion electorally, however the domination of Congress’s ideology within the mental ecosystem would additionally finish.