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Life and times of Manohar Parrikar
December 13, 1955 | Born to Parra native, Gaud Saraswat Brahmin middle-class couple Gopalkrishna and Radhabai of Mapusa in North Goa
RSS prant pracharak D Nadkarni is a major influence on young Parrikar, who is made ‘mukhya shikshak’ while preparing for IIT
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1978 | Graduates as BTech in metallurgical engineering, resumes work for RSS in Mapusa where he also sets up a business
June 2, 1979 | Manohar Parrikar marries Medha Kotnis in Mumbai
They have two sons—Utpal and Abhijat
1981 | Becomes RSS Mapusa unit sanghchalak
1988 | Sangh deputes him to BJP to make the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party irrelevant
June 1991 | Makes electoral debut, contests Lok Sabha polls from North Goa constituency, loses to Congress candidate Harish Zantye
Considered No. 13, his birth date, lucky. His vehicle number, while he was in office, was 1313
October 24, 2000 | Becomes the first IITian CM
2001 | Awarded Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT Bombay, announces cyberage scheme, where for the first time in the country, free computers are provided to higher secondary school students
June 5, 2002 | Re-elected CM for second time
2004 | Gets Iffi to Goa, raises infra in record time
Even as CM, Parrikar lived in his ancestral house at Mapusa, 13km from Panaji
September 2009 | Parrikar in an infamous interview compares BJP veteran Lal Krishna Advani to “a rancid and ageing pickle whose political innings was more or less over”
September 2012 | Suspends mining operations after Shah Commission report alleges multi-crore scam
January 2013 | Becomes first BJP CM to openly endorse Narendra Modi’s candidature for PM. Also hosts BJP national executive in Panaji, where Modi is announced as campaign committee chief and in effect the PM candidate
November 2014 | Elected to Rajya Sabha from UP
September 26, 2016 | Carries out surgical strikes across LoC after Pakistani terrorists killed 19 soldiers at Uri on September 18, 2016
February 2018 | Diagnosed with a pancreatic ailment
March 17, 2019 | Passes away
RSS prant pracharak D Nadkarni is a major influence on young Parrikar, who is made ‘mukhya shikshak’ while preparing for IIT
Read Also: Manohar Parrikar changed Goan politics
1978 | Graduates as BTech in metallurgical engineering, resumes work for RSS in Mapusa where he also sets up a business
June 2, 1979 | Manohar Parrikar marries Medha Kotnis in Mumbai
They have two sons—Utpal and Abhijat
1981 | Becomes RSS Mapusa unit sanghchalak
1988 | Sangh deputes him to BJP to make the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party irrelevant
June 1991 | Makes electoral debut, contests Lok Sabha polls from North Goa constituency, loses to Congress candidate Harish Zantye
Considered No. 13, his birth date, lucky. His vehicle number, while he was in office, was 1313
October 24, 2000 | Becomes the first IITian CM
2001 | Awarded Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT Bombay, announces cyberage scheme, where for the first time in the country, free computers are provided to higher secondary school students
June 5, 2002 | Re-elected CM for second time
2004 | Gets Iffi to Goa, raises infra in record time
Even as CM, Parrikar lived in his ancestral house at Mapusa, 13km from Panaji
September 2009 | Parrikar in an infamous interview compares BJP veteran Lal Krishna Advani to “a rancid and ageing pickle whose political innings was more or less over”
September 2012 | Suspends mining operations after Shah Commission report alleges multi-crore scam
January 2013 | Becomes first BJP CM to openly endorse Narendra Modi’s candidature for PM. Also hosts BJP national executive in Panaji, where Modi is announced as campaign committee chief and in effect the PM candidate
November 2014 | Elected to Rajya Sabha from UP
September 26, 2016 | Carries out surgical strikes across LoC after Pakistani terrorists killed 19 soldiers at Uri on September 18, 2016
February 2018 | Diagnosed with a pancreatic ailment
March 17, 2019 | Passes away
Top Comment
Balbhadra Dhagat
2076 days ago
Story of watermelons by Manohar Parrikar-"I am from the village of Parra in Goa, hence we are called Parrikars. My village is famous for its watermelons. When I was a child, the farmers would organise a watermelon-eating contest at the end of the harvest season in May. All the kids would be invited to eat as many watermelons as they wanted.Years later, I went to IIT Mumbai to study engineering. I went back to my village after 6.5 years. I went to the market looking for watermelons. They were all gone. The ones that were there were so small.I went to see the farmer who hosted the watermelon-eating contest. His son had taken over. He would host the contest but there was a difference. When the older farmer gave us watermelons to eat he would ask us to spit out the seeds into a bowl. We were told not to bite into the seeds. He was collecting the seeds for his next crop. We were unpaid child labourers, actually. He kept his best watermelons for the contest and he got the best seeds which would yield even bigger watermelons the next year.His son, when he took over, realised that the larger watermelons would fetch more money in the market so he sold the larger ones and kept the smaller ones for the contest. The next year, the watermelons were smaller, the year later even small.In watermelons the generation is one year. In seven years, Parra''s best watermelons were finished.In humans, generations change after 25 years. It will take us 200 years to figure what we were doing wrong while educating our children. Unless we employ our best to train the next generation, this is what can happen to us. We must attract the best into teaching profession."Read allPost comment
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