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FAMOUS PEOPLE


Gajendra Narayan Singh

The main aim of this note is to make aware the present generation, active in political and social field about the devotional and uncorrupted political character of Gajendra Babu, who devoted or sacrificed his whole life in providing sights to the suppressed Dalits and ethnics who have been exploited for last 250 years by a particular ruling class. Half of the population in hilly and 30% of Madhesh Terai regions, the ethnics and Dalits, are leading a suppressed, isolated and ignored life.
Gajendra Babu entered into politics as an ordinary worker of Nepali Congress, fighting and struggling to end the atrocities and vehemence of ruling Ranas and establish democracy in the country. He had already taken his revolutionary step forward to end the discrimination prevalent against the 'Untouchables and Dalit' in his school life. He was courageous enough to eat along with his 'untouchable farmer' time and again with a view to crush the system of 'Untouchability' in society. Not to speak of his parents, even contemporary powerful and effective 'Rajput–Brahmins' feared to oppose him, keeping in view his militant and revolutionary temperament.
After coming in direct contact with socialist leader "Jaiprakash Narayan and Dr. Rammanohar Lohiya, he proved that none was untouchable neither Hindu Dalit nor Muslim, but they shared the same conscience or Atma in this form he exemplified the example of 'Single Humanism'; and organized feast assembling all caste and communities. This party was attended by Dalits, untouchables, poor, rich from not only Saptari but from the whole country and Muslims attended unhesitatingly.
The atrocities imposed on a school boy Gajendra  by Rana corpses, as a result of revolution by Nepali Congress, in form of slogans and flags, starting from Rajbiraj under the effect of Bhattarai, the founder of Nepali Congress are remembered by Kisunji Bhattarai and contemporary politicians. These incidents are prevalent as life stories in Rajbiraj.
Along with these, the story of denying election tickets to Gajendra Babu as president of Nepali Congress in Saptari after 1950 revolution and establishment of democracy in 1959 is prevalent among people or talked about this audacity in exposing the discrimination against Madhes and Madhesis was considered as a crime in view of Nepali Congress.
Gajendra Narayan Singh's heart throbbed with pain when a commission established by Prime Minister under the presidency of Dr. Hark Bahadur Gurng reported that most of the inhabitants of Terai were Indians and with publishing of this report, he became alert because few days before some Panchayati rulers had filled some Madhesis into truck and pushed them to Raxaul calling them 'Indians'. Gurung's report pushed whole Madhes into worry and revolution.  Gajendra Babu keeping aside his democratic sentiments took part into national Panchayat election keeping in view to work for the welfare of Madhesis and democracy.
First time he failed but second time he was elected. In 1991, first election was held and Gajendra Babu took part in election changing the 'Sadbhawana Parishad' into 'Sadbhawana Party' under his leadership. He came with flying colours. Six parliamentarians came victorious into representative house. His party was recognized as 'National Party' and from first day of commencement of 'Representative House, he started the movement of Madhes and Madhesis identification in the mainstream of politics and governance.
Gajendra Babu, with his six colleagues entered the 'Representative House in Dhoti-Kurta, alarming the ruling class which was suffering from cancerous slogan of 'Hamro Bhasa, Hamro Bhesh– Pran Bhanda Pyaro chha' and took oath in Hindi. He delivered his first speech in Hindi which was strongly opposed by not only congress and communist but also by media nationalist and supporters of kingship.  But ignoring these oppositions Gajendra and his friends kept raising the issue of dissemination against Madhes and Madhesis in Hindi language.
The congress and communist parties raised the greatest pandemonium when he and his friends demanded a federal from of government. The leaders and ministers designated him as a 'Villain' dividing the country in spite of this opposition, before reaching to death bed he kept on raising and struggling for the following issues–
(a)    To give proportional representation to Madhesis in all part of governance.
(b)    Reservation for backward casts
(c)    To divide the country into federal units and give opportunities to land owners in government and developmental works. He remained adamant to his demands until he breathed his last.
He had an opinion that one can change the history but not the geography of a country. He considered India as friend as we have a daughter-bread relation with the same. They both have to move forward with a courteous relation for the common welfare of both the countries. The anti-Indian slogans by non-party Panchayati rulers would be worthless because flood and draught may jointly affect Indian and Nepalese habitats. Undoubtedly, China is the second big neighbor of Nepal. It can be friend but not relative because the saying goes- "Blood is thicker than water."
Today not only Nepal but the super powers of world are shockingly viewing that Maoists accepted the slogan of 'Federalism' of Gajendra Babu after ten years of war and promised the right to 'Self decision and self-ruled government' to ethnics, Madhesis and lingual groups. This provided strength to armed groups. After this, big parties of Nepal, hesitatingly and unwillingly accepted this system and the small parties as well as which is defined and clarified in their constitution making proclamation.
Unfortunately, after the completion of interim constitution with the help of seven parties, a follower party of Gajendra Babu presented note of dissent against the exclusion of federalism in interim constitution. Consequently the entire Madhes turned turbulent against the negligence to federalism by Nepali Congress, Maoists and United front. The revolution arising as consequences of attack on Madhesis in Nepalgunj  and its success compelled Girija Prashad Koirala to address the countrymen in favor of 'Federalism' in the interim constitution.
Gajendra Babu's love for Hindi has become main issue of the country. Today the oath taking of Honourable vice-president has not only raised a question on the prestige of Madhesis but has cropped up as the main prestige issue of Madhesis. We have to observe what direction the making of constitution takes.
These issues may lead to whatever consequence but we feel elevated on seeing that the questions raised by Gajendra Babu have become serious national issue and let's watch the direction of new constitution or what direction the new constitution takes.
The real devotion to Gajendra Babu would be in form of recognizing Hindi as second National language and re-structure of self-ruled federal states on the geographical and cultural basis which would be the authenticity of the publication of this memorandum.
He became minister several times, but never let corruption peep into his life which is the best example of his uncorrupted life or character. He used to say that while entering into polities he had 60 acres of land but at the time of departure from politics he possessed only 7 acres of land. The biggest incidence is that before death he made a trust for Dalits, sacrificing his remaining property. He never allowed his wife or relatives to enter into politics. And he was firm with his decision.
Gajendra Narayan Singh began as an insignificant individual with no particular talent and gradually became a remarkable human being and a significant figure in contemporary Nepalese politics. He considered democracy and proportional representation as the key to development. His ideas have relevance beyond his own time. His approach was holistic and evolved through his experience.


Udit Narayan



Udit Narayan Jha (Nepali:उदित नारायण झा) ,popularly known as Udit Narayan, is a Nepaliplayback singer in commercial, Hindi, Kannada, Nepali, Urdu, Bhojpuri Garhwali, Sindhi,Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Oriya, Assamese, Maithili and Bengali language cinema. Narayan has sung in 32 languages. He has won three National Film Awards and fiveFilmfare Awards. In 2009, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India
Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1 December 1955 in a village called Bhardaha in the Saptari district, Nepal.[2] His father was Hare Krishna Jha and his mother was Bhuwaneshwari Devi.
Narayan studied at P.B. School, Rajbiraj, where he passed his S.L.C.(class 10) and later obtained his intermediate from Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus, mostly known as RR campusKathmandu.
Udit Narayan began his career in Nepal singing for Radio Nepal as a staff artiste for Maithiliand Nepali folk songs. He sang many popular Nepali folk, modern songs on Radio Nepal. His first film playback singing was for Nepali film Sindur. It was a comedy song for famous Nepali comedians GopalRaj Mainali (Chankhe) and Basundhara Bhushal (Nakkali). It was a duet song with Sushma Shrestha — now known as Poornima in Hindi films. After eight years in that role, the Indian embassy offered him the chance to study classical music at a prestigious school in Bombay, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, on a music scholarship. He moved to Bombay in 1978.
He got his first break in 1980, when noted music director (composer) Rajesh Roshanasked him to playback for the Hindi film Unees Bees and was given the opportunity to sing with the veteran Mohammed Rafi. He provided playback for a number of films, the most notable being Sannata (1981), Bade Dil Wala (1983) and Tan-Badan (1986). The success story of his career began in 1988 whenAnand-Milind gave him the oppportunity to sing all the songs for the successful Bollywood movie Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, earning him a Filmfare Award.[3] The film also brought actor Aamir Khan, actress Juhi Chawla and playback singer Alka Yagnik to stardom. After the success of Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, he became one of the leading playback singers in the Indian film industry.

[edit]Significant collaborations

Anand-Milind
Music directors, Anand-Milind first collaborated with Udit with the 1986 film Tan-Badan. They gave him his first breakthrough when he got the chance to sing songs for the hit 1988 film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak. All the songs for that film were sung by him and Alka Yagnik. Some of their collaborations included hit films like Dil, Beta, Raj Babu, Hero No. 1, Dulhe Raja, Aunty No. 1, Hogi Pyaar Ki Jeetamong others.
Nadeem-Shravan
Music directors, Nadeem-Shravan started working with him in the late 80s. They have collabrated for films like Aashiqui, Dilwale, Raja,Raja Hindustani, Jeet, Mohabbat, Sirf Tum, Aa Ab Laut Chalen, Kasoor, Andaaz and few others.
Jatin Lalit
Udit started to work with music directors, Jatin Lalit in 1991 which was also the year when Jatin Lalit started their music career. Since then they have collabrated for hit films like Khiladi, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Dil Kya Kare, Albela, Kehtaa Hai Dil Baar Baar, Hum Tum etc.
Other composers
Singers
In a career spanning three decades he has sung many duet songs, most of these have been with Alka Yagnik. They sang their first duet for the 1981 film Sannata when they were both at the beginning of their careers. They both got their breakthrough with the 1988 filmQayamat Se Qayamat Tak and since then they have sung hundreds of duet songs together. He has sung many duets with Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Anuradha Paudwal, Sadhana Sargam, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Poorima, Sunidhi Chauhan and Shreya Ghoshal. He has also sung with many male playback singers including Mohammed Rafi, Mahendra Kapoor, Amit Kumar, Kumar Sanu,Abhijeet, Vinod Rathod and Sonu Nigam.

[edit]Other work

At the same time, he sang in Nepalese movies and acted in two Nepali films Kusume Rumal and Pirati in 1985. He has worked in Nepalese films as well, in particular for composer Shambhujeet Baskota. During his early singing career, he performed songs composed by Shiva Shankar, Natikaji and Gopal Yonjan. In 2004, he released his first private Nepalese album, Upahaar, in which he sang duets with his wife Deepa Jha. At the Hits FM Awards in 2004 he won awards in two major categories for the album: Record of the Year and Album of the Year.[citation needed] Some of Narayan's other private albums are Bhajan Sangam, Bhajan Vatika, I Love You, Dil Deewana, Yeh Dosti, Love is Life, Jhumka de Jhumka, Sona No Ghadulo, Dhuli Ganga, and Ma Tarini.
He was in the panel of judges of Indian Idol 3 with music composer Anu Malik and female playback singer Alisha Chinai on Sony TV.
He was in the panel of judges on Sony TV for Waar Pariwaar, a reality show based on the bringing together of a singing gharana (family of singers). He shared judging duties with fellow playback singer Kumar Sanu and Jatin Pandit of the famous music duo Jatin-Lalit. Indian Idol 3 judge, Saregama many time special gust, X Factor, Jo Jita wo super Star special judges
Narayan has performed in many stage shows in India and abroad and is the recipient of a large number of awards. These include Screen Videocon Award, MTV Best Video Award and Pride of India Gold Award.
In 2009, Narayan was considering running as a candidate for the Padma Shri.[2] In 2010, Udit Narayan with Madhushree sang for the English independent film "When Harry Tries to Marry".

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