Liberty Case

New Delhi, India (DT) – The body of Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister whose death has sparked outpourings of grief at home and accolades from abroad, was cremated on Sunday on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi with full state honours.
The funeral was conducted in the Sikh tradition as priests chanted hymns, after Singh’s body, draped in the Indian flag, was carried through the capital on a flower-decked carriage pulled by a ceremonial army truck.

The flag was respectfully removed, and the body was draped in a saffron cloth before being placed on the funeral pyre.

Since Singh’s passing on Thursday at the age of 92, many have reflected on his poignant remark near the conclusion of his decade-long tenure as Prime Minister: “History will be kinder to me than the contemporary media.”

This statement was a response to criticisms of weak leadership during his time heading a coalition government that grappled with multiple corruption scandals. The administration ultimately lost power in the 2014 election, which brought his successor, Narendra Modi, to office.

Modi, who called Singh one of the nation’s “most distinguished leaders” after his death, attended the funeral, along with President Droupadi Murmu and representatives of various countries. Modi’s government has decided to allocate land for Singh’s memorial.
Singh, considered the architect of India’s economic liberalization, had criticized Modi’s economic policies such as demonetization and introducing a goods and services tax.

Singh is survived by his wife and three daughters.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accompanied Singh’s family on the truck carrying his body to the Nigambodh Ghat cremation site. The funeral procession began at the Congress party headquarters in New Delhi, where party leaders, members, and the public gathered to pay their final respects.

Leaders from the United States, Canada, France, Sri Lanka, China, and Pakistan were among those mourning Singh’s passing, praising his significant contributions on the international stage.

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New Delhi, India(DT) – There are very few people like Sanjay Singha, a famous social worker of Burdwan district of Bengal, in this country and the world. Sanjay Singha runs an ashram named Andal Parivar for orphan children and the destitute. Where he tries to make hundreds of orphan children a good human being with a good education.

When Sanjay Singha sees an elderly or an orphan child begging at the railway station of Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, then Sanjay Singha brings the orphan child to his ashram with the help of the administration, where they are given a good education and a good upbringing. He tries to make the children capable of whatever they have, if a child is interested in any sport, Sanjay Singha gives that opportunity to the children. Recently, a child from the ashram has got admission in Kolkata Cricket from Burdwan district.

If the children of any extremely poor family nearby need help in education, then the Andal family comes forward to help in every possible way. There are currently 24 orphan children in the ashram, who are provided with good education, good upbringing, good food. Sanjay Sinha gets full support from the administrative officials for his excellent and noble work, recently some time ago journalist Ehasan Ansari from Delhi came to visit the ashram.

Where in an interview given to journalist Ehasan, Sanjay Sinha said that it is our resolution that there should not be any orphan child in our society, no child should need to beg for two meals a day. We try to make such children capable by giving them good education and upbringing so that when they grow up they have everything to live a good life – home, family, respect, honour. We have to give a good human being to the orphan children in the society and create a beautiful society. During the interview, he said that in our ashram, God has chosen many noble people for this work, who come to our ashram as helpers for the orphan children and help them in every way.