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50% Excess Rainfall During SW Monsoon PNS N NEW DELHI Follow us on: RNI No. APENG/2018/764698 @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer Established 1864 Published From OPINION 6 VIJAYAWADA 9 SPORTS 12 VIJAYAWADA DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL PATH TO THE LASTING HITMAN BEGINS LIFE RAIPUR CHANDIGARH BHUBANESWAR RANCHI SUSTAINABLE FUTURE LEGACY AS TEST OPENER DEHRADUN HYDERABAD *Late City Vol. 1 Issue 337 VIJAYAWADA, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 2, 2019; PAGES 12 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable www.dailypioneer.com BAPU, WE MISS YOU… WE'LL NEVER FORGET YOU e was there for the oppressed when they again Avatar - lest some ‘Baba’ or miracle man he will be tomorrow”. They do genuinely. In Bapu’s needed him most, and he rid them of their assumes the mantle by fakery — and most certainly own words: “After I am gone, no single person will be Hsuffering with the force of belief that his frail, not on TV. Don’t want Bapu to do rallies and give able completely to represent me. But a little bit of barely-covered body had in abundance. A 150 years speeches, never. Just be there for us, with us, in our me will live in many of you. If each puts the cause hence, Bapu’s need is being felt again, as acutely as hearts and minds. The Mahatma was so different. first and himself last, the vacuum will to a large before. For, oppression and slavery He was at once a saint and a revolutionary, a extent be filled” was so haunting. The increased have returned in the guise of politician and social reformer, an economist and man velocity of modern changes, we do not know what persecution and hatred., of religion, educationist and Satyagrahi; devotee the world will be a hundred years hence. But years And no, alike of faith and reason, Hindu and inter-religious, may go their way, yet the principles of Satya and common folks nationalist and internationalist, man of action and Ahimsa, truth and non-violence are there to guide us. don’t want Bapu dreamer of dreams. The They are the silent stars keeping holy vigil above a back in a born- West calls Mahatma tired and turbulent world. Gandhi “a universal man... as relevant today Hello, Bapu! … as he was yesterday, as Give us the courage to follow you. Lord Venkateswara’s name included in NASA rocket to Mars PNS n TIRUPATI among 10 million names stencilled on microchips The name of Lord affixed on the Rover, the Venkateswara of the famous American space agency has hill shrine at Tirumala, sten- said. The submission of cilled in micro chips and names at the NASA website affixed on NASAs Mars 2020 for the "Send Your Name to Rover, would fly to the Red Mars" campaign ended on Planet, former director of Tuesday, Reddy said. "I am a National Mission of strong supporter of Manuscripts and Prime Minister an ardent devo- Narendra Modi tee V Venkata and an ardent Ramana devotee of Lord Reddy said Venkateswara, here on and I am Tuesday. delighted to send "I have sub- the name of the mitted the sacred ancient and world name of Lord famous Tirumala Venkateswara and got shrines presiding deity to the souvenir boarding pass in Mars," he said. NASA had the name of the Lord from invited the public to submit the official website of NASA," their names to fly to the red Reddy, also formerly profes- planet. The mission is sched- sor of Oriental Research uled for launch in July 2020, Institute in Sri Venkateswara with the spacecraft expected University here, said. The to touch down on Mars in Lord's name would be February 2021. Village Secretariats will serve as role models: CM PNS n VIJAYAWADA Secretariats by December and see that from January Village/Ward Secretariats will onwards all the services are start functioning from provided to the people. Wednesday across the State. The Secretariats will pro- The Chief Minister will for- vide 500 types of services to mally launch the new system people and should be fully at Karapa in East Godavari functional by January. In the district. He reviewed the meantime, all infrastructure arrangements during the and needed equipment and video conference with the logistics should be provided, Collectors and instructed the CM told at the review the officials to streamline the meeting. functioning of Village Continued on Page 3 50% excess rainfall during SW monsoon PNS n NEW DELHI Fifty per cent excess rainfall during September helped the Telugu states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to register above normal rain- fall during southwest mon- soon period spread from October 7. Despite nearly 40 June to September. percent deficit in June due to While Telangana received the delayed monsoon and its six per cent excess rainfall sluggish movement during during the four month peri- July, the heavy rains during od, it was 10 per cent above the subsequent months normal in neighbouring helped both the states to Andhra Pradesh, according overcome the shortfall. For to the IMD data on Monday. the entire four-month peri- The two states may receive od, Telangana recorded 805.6 more rains as the withdraw- mm rainfall against normal al of southwest monsoon is of 759.6 mm. likely to be delayed till ContinuedonPage3 Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." — MAHATMA GANDHI VIJAYAWADA | WEDNESDAY | OCTOBER 2, 2019 vijayawada 02 ‘A ONE-MAN BOUNDARY FORCE' hen India became free, Suhrawardy? Gandhi received an You should have heard the enthu- Wacknowledgement of his siastic applause which greeted the mission for peace through a letter mention of your name in the from Lord Mountbatten on 26 August Constituent Assembly on 15th of 1947. In his letter Mountbatten wrote: August when all of us were thinking "My dear Gandhiji, In the Punjab so much of you.... we have 55 thousand soldiers and "Yours very sincerely, large scale rioting on our hands. In Mountbatten of Burma" Bengal our forces consist of one man, Mountbatten, who was clothed in and there is no rioting. As a serving military uniform all his service life, officer, as well as an administrator, holding arms in his hands, realised may I be allowed to pay my tribute the strength, courage and the spirit of to the One Boundary Force, not for- compassion of a sensitive human getting his Second in Command, Mr. being called Gandhi. he Gandhi Heritage Portal, a website containing Gandhi in the digital form. It also hosts an architec- tal, he added. "The portal is freely accessible," Kothari T19.30 lakh pages of content with 20,000 new pages tural documentation of 23 of the 39 important loca- said. This web portal on getting uploaded every month, is a treasure trove for tions associated with Gandhi's life, including "virtual The Union Ministry of Culture gave Sabarmati Ashram a student of Mahatma Gandhi's life. tours", Virat Kothari, the IT head of the Sabarmati Preservation and Memorial Trust the responsibility to Mahatma has 19.3 Www.gandhiheritageportal.org, launched six years Ashram here, which maintains the portal, said. Soon, design and maintain the website, which was launched ago, has books, journals, photos, audio and video clips, people would be able to have a virtual reality experi- in September, 2013 by then prime minister Manmohan cartoons, posters, stamps and other material on ence of websites related to Gandhi's life through the por- Singh. lakh pages and counting Gandhi’s vision on The journalist in Mahatma andhi became a regular reader country. On the third day of his South Africa. From his writings of newspapers after reaching arrival in South Africa he was insulted overseas readers could form a true G England at the, age of 19. As a in a court of law. He published an picture of the happenings in South 10 school student in India, he did not account of this incident in a local Africa. In his opinion the aim of read, them. He was very shy and paper and gained publicity overnight. journalism was service: films could not speak in a gathering. At At the age of 35, he took charge of "Journalism should never be 21, he first wrote nine articles lndian Opinion and through it he prostituted for selfish ends or made on for The Vegetarian an English guided and unified the Indians in for the sake of carrying a weekly, on vegetarianism, South Africa. A Gujarati edition of this livelihood. And whatever Gandhi Indian food habits, customs weekly was simultaneously printed at happens to the editors or and religious festivals. His Phoenix. A series of articles on the journal, it should KASHMIR earliest writings show his dietetics appeared in the Gujarati express views of the of the ‘Sardar’ (1993) oday there is talk of war every- capacity for expressing any Indian Opinion, also the life sketches country irrespective of where. Everyone fears a war idea in simple direct of great men and women. He wanted consequences. They will The Ketan Mehta film on Tbreaking out between the two language. After a gap of two to educate the public opinion, to have to strike a Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had countries. If that happens it will be a years, Gandhi again took remove causes of misunderstanding different line of Annu Kapoor stepping into the calamity both for India and for to journalism. From between the whites and the Indians policy if they shoes of Gandhi. Apart from play- Pakistan. India has written to the U.N. that time onwards and to point out the drawbacks of his wanted to ing the great Indian leader on the big because whenever there is a fear of con- his pen knew no countrymen.
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