Newsletter No. 58; IRBMS; November, 2016
Anupam Mishra( 1948-2016)
On 19 th December 2016 morning Anupam Mishra known to all as Anupamji passed away at AIIMS, New Delhi at the age of 68. An era has ended with him. Many a times the impact of the incident is much bigger than the published news. Anupamji’ s sudden dimise is one such incident at the time when Indian society is transfoming rapidly. As expected to the so called urban mainstream society it was another news and it remain aloof, indifferent but to many faceless people of this ancient land. It is an unimaginable loss. Gopalkrishna Gandhi rightly describe him as an intellectual without a trace of snobbery, an activist who
was never judgemental about others actions. A remarkable scholar, a true Gandhian who is extremely relevant to this modern market driven time. He was, unassuming, simple, firm with Gandhian values a true Indian without the hollow of pride. He was embodiment of the Indian traditional wisdom resolutely challenging the mindless, heartless modern urban consumerist society. There will be very few left now who has the ability and scholarship to counter the power hungry, destructive social paradigm of present day India. To some people he was an ecologist per excellence or an extraordinary
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