Savarkar's Grand Son needs Help.....
It may surprise everyone, but Veer Savarkar’s grandson was cheated by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). A sum of about Rs.1 lakh, collected by the MNS under the pretext of funds for looking after him, was siphoned off along with a laptop belonging to the hapless grandson, who ended up a destitute on the footpath. He had even spent one year in the Bombay Hospital recovering from burn injuries suffered in a forest fire. The shock of seeing a 60 year old person destitute on the footpath opposite Swami Samarth Math in Kothrud, Pune was something Banesh Joshi, a social activist and journalist from Mangaon, could not absorb. That the 60 year old was Prafulla Madhav Chiplunkar, the grandson of India’s legendary freedom fighter Swatantrya Veer Vinayakrao Savarkar, is a shock and a national shame. Chiplunkar had a versatile and remarkable career in India and abroad. A B. Tech from IIT Delhi, he was the Plant Superintendent of Gwalior Rayon in Thailand and married a Thai national. The first tragedy struck, when a road accident claimed the lives of his college going son and wife. The second tragedy struck on his return to India; in the forest areas of Himachal Pradesh (HP), a fire crippled him and he had to spend six years in hospital in HP; six months in a Chandigarh hospital and one year in Bombay Hospital; before getting admitted to a hospital in Pune.
He was then discharged and started living on a footpath in Saras Baug. Some local news in Pune papers got the activists of the newly formed MNS into what then seemed to be a charitable initiative. The Savarkar scion was shifted to Niradhar Rehabilitation Centre in Pune and around one lakh rupees were collected in the name of financial aid by the MNS activists, did not reach Chiplunkar; he even lost his own laptop to the disguised robbers. The late Mrs. Indira Gandhi had deputed Chiplunkar to various countries for assessment and analysis to enhance the data bank of Research & Analysis Wing of the Cabinet Secretariat. This elite agency was the brainchild of the late Mrs.Gandhi and she had nurtured the same for India's international strategies. After her tragic assassination, Rajiv Gandhi too continued the international initiative of his mother and deputed Chiplunkar as a team member to Sri Lanka, the then most strategically important neighbor of India. Chiplunkar’s team tendered a detailed study report to the Cabinet Secretariat on the determination of the LTTE cadres to eliminate Rajiv on the eve of the then coming general polls.
However, like his mother; who refused to succumb to the RAW warning against posting of security guards of a particular community at her residence; Rajiv Gandhi too refused to budge and went all out to the common people on the eve of the general elections of 1991. Chiplunkar lives with those memories; his dedication to the cause of India and his integrity are his only two assets. The Swar Gate police not only refused to help him, but discouraged him from going on a fast, stating that they would feed him forcefully. Chiplunkar took to the footpath.
Banesh Joshi has been taking pride in looking after the Savarkar scion. It is not a great thing for Joshi as this Post Master by occupation, has been nurturing fifty children in the age group of five years and less with food and shelter.
“I appeal to India to take advantage of the vast knowledge possessed by Chiplunkar in the field of electricity generation, via wind mills and heating water via solar energy. Come and meet him personally if you want to help,” states Mr. Joshi.
It may surprise everyone, but Veer Savarkar’s grandson was cheated by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). A sum of about Rs.1 lakh, collected by the MNS under the pretext of funds for looking after him, was siphoned off along with a laptop belonging to the hapless grandson, who ended up a destitute on the footpath. He had even spent one year in the Bombay Hospital recovering from burn injuries suffered in a forest fire. The shock of seeing a 60 year old person destitute on the footpath opposite Swami Samarth Math in Kothrud, Pune was something Banesh Joshi, a social activist and journalist from Mangaon, could not absorb. That the 60 year old was Prafulla Madhav Chiplunkar, the grandson of India’s legendary freedom fighter Swatantrya Veer Vinayakrao Savarkar, is a shock and a national shame. Chiplunkar had a versatile and remarkable career in India and abroad. A B. Tech from IIT Delhi, he was the Plant Superintendent of Gwalior Rayon in Thailand and married a Thai national. The first tragedy struck, when a road accident claimed the lives of his college going son and wife. The second tragedy struck on his return to India; in the forest areas of Himachal Pradesh (HP), a fire crippled him and he had to spend six years in hospital in HP; six months in a Chandigarh hospital and one year in Bombay Hospital; before getting admitted to a hospital in Pune.
He was then discharged and started living on a footpath in Saras Baug. Some local news in Pune papers got the activists of the newly formed MNS into what then seemed to be a charitable initiative. The Savarkar scion was shifted to Niradhar Rehabilitation Centre in Pune and around one lakh rupees were collected in the name of financial aid by the MNS activists, did not reach Chiplunkar; he even lost his own laptop to the disguised robbers. The late Mrs. Indira Gandhi had deputed Chiplunkar to various countries for assessment and analysis to enhance the data bank of Research & Analysis Wing of the Cabinet Secretariat. This elite agency was the brainchild of the late Mrs.Gandhi and she had nurtured the same for India's international strategies. After her tragic assassination, Rajiv Gandhi too continued the international initiative of his mother and deputed Chiplunkar as a team member to Sri Lanka, the then most strategically important neighbor of India. Chiplunkar’s team tendered a detailed study report to the Cabinet Secretariat on the determination of the LTTE cadres to eliminate Rajiv on the eve of the then coming general polls.
However, like his mother; who refused to succumb to the RAW warning against posting of security guards of a particular community at her residence; Rajiv Gandhi too refused to budge and went all out to the common people on the eve of the general elections of 1991. Chiplunkar lives with those memories; his dedication to the cause of India and his integrity are his only two assets. The Swar Gate police not only refused to help him, but discouraged him from going on a fast, stating that they would feed him forcefully. Chiplunkar took to the footpath.
Banesh Joshi has been taking pride in looking after the Savarkar scion. It is not a great thing for Joshi as this Post Master by occupation, has been nurturing fifty children in the age group of five years and less with food and shelter.
“I appeal to India to take advantage of the vast knowledge possessed by Chiplunkar in the field of electricity generation, via wind mills and heating water via solar energy. Come and meet him personally if you want to help,” states Mr. Joshi.
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