The question is intriguing (= creating problem) .Because Independence freed the people from the foreign shackles and progress began by leaps and bounds. Naturally, there have been scores of people who made notable strides; but the number of those who brought ‘glory’ to the nation is not legion (= in large number). The essay takes up only three: Late Jaiprakash Narain, Late Homi J. Bhava and Shri Amartya Sen.
Jaiprakash Narain was, essentially, a devout follower of non-violence and a social reformer. He held several important posts in post-Independent India. Basically he was a humanist and stood for a kind of robust socialism, and his method of reform was non-violent. But he always resisted blind authority and misuse ot power. He had set up a camp in a place called Mushri-Gharart near Muzaffarpur in Bihar, challenging the Naxalites. He opposed their violent methods. The Indian Nation – a premiere journa of Bihar had then brought our his series-articles entitled Face- to-Face with the Naxalites’. Before his death, he showed his mettle = spirit) in countering Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s Emergency through a powerful, well-organised revolution in Bihar. almost on a line with Mahatma Gandhi’s Non-Co-operation. He died at the Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai.
Homi J. Bhava was a nuclear scientist during the Nehruvian tenure. He was a visionary scientist who felt the urgency of Atomic energy. The Bhava Atomic Research Centre, which is named after him, is his brain-child. He was a Parsee, a race that is noted for its – devocion and human orientation. But as ill luck would have it, the cruel hands of destiny snatched him from his countrymen, as he died abruptly in a plane crash. Still he has left a glorious heritage that largely accounts for India’s march in the Atomic field.
The third great personality – a Nobel-laureate in Economics – is Dr. Amartya Sen. He is largely indebted to Rabindranath Tagore in his outlook of human life. His theory, as it can be deduced into a common man’s language, establishes the proposition that eradication of poverty and illiteracy is the magic clue to world economy. It is a humanist approach and a landmark interpretation that overrides the age old theories of supply-demand, pricing and even Marxist philosophy. He is now at the Harvard University, Mass. Cambridge, and remai is in close contact with his native country.
The above three personalities represent India at her best.
