WHO ARE THE HEIRS OF SESHENDRA
SHARMA?
The literary world is aware that my father Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, eminent
poet, litterateur and scholar-critic, died on 30th may 2007. Ever since he
expired, there has been no mention of his parents, family members and other
personal details in the news and in the articles about him. Not only this,
fictional lies are being spread and using money power one shady lady is being
propagated as his wife and so on. This has been causing me, as his son, a great
mental agony. That is why, through this article, I am revealing certain
fundamental truths to the literary field of this country and the civilized
society. I appeal to your conscience to uphold truth, justice and values of our
composite culture.
Seshendra Sharma’s family members are: Parents: Subrahmanyam Sharma, Ammaayamma;
Wife: Janaki Daughters: Vasundhara, Revathi,Sons: Vanamali, Saatyaki. Only these
two are legal heirs of Seshendra Sharma, socially and morally too.
STREET PLAY AND CIRCUS
In 1972, away from the civilized society, without the knowledge of parents and
near and dear, in a far flung village called Halebeed in Karnataka a circus, a
street play was staged. Let me make it clear that even after this street play my
father did not divorce my mother Mrs. G.Janaki legally. He never had even a
faint intention of committing such as uncivilized act. On the contrary, in all
crucial Government documents he nominated my mother as his legal heir from time
to time. During his long career as Municipal Commissioner with the Government of
Andhra Pradesh, he retired 3 times. His first retirement came in 1975 by way of
compulsory retirement for his anti estrablishment writings during Mrs. Gandhi’s
emergency. His second retirement came in 1983 when the then new chief minister
N.R. Rama Rao’s government reduced the age of service from 58 to 55 years. The
third and final retirement in the year 1985 on attaining 58 years of age. On all
these occasions, in all the government documents, my father Seshendra Sharma
Nominated my mother Mrs. Janaki as his legal heir. This is precisely why the
self contradictory ‘second marriage’ is a circus enacted away from the society
and Laws does not recognize this type of street plays as marriage.
Seshendra Sharma’s entire family complex is present in this picture. His
parents, his wife JanakiSeshendra,children his two maternal uncles who are his
two sisters husbands, their children on the occasion of his younger brother
Rajaseskharam’s marriage at Tirumala Hills(Temple Town,Tirupathi.AP:INDIA -June
21, 1962
LAKSHMI PARVATHI IN LITERATURE
N.T. Rama Rao, actor turned politicial married Ms. Lakshmi Parvathi in 1994 and
subsequently in January 1995 he came to power for the second time. She used to
act as an extra constitutional power and run the matters of government and the
party. She developed her own coterie of cohorts and started dominating the
party. After NTR was toppled by his own son-in-law, most of them parted ways
with her. And the remaining touts left her for good the day NTR breathed his
last. Ms. Indira Dhanrajgir has been playing the same role in Telugu literature
over a period of more than 3 decades. In the guise of literature she developed
her own coterie of lumpens with extra literary and money mongering elements –
Tangirala Subba Rao, Velichala Kondala Rao (Editor, Jayanthi) Cheekolu
Sundarayya (A.G.s Office, Hyderabad et al).
There are a couple of dissimilarities between these two instances. Afther the
demise of NTR, L.P’s coterie of cohorts disappeared once and for all. Whereas,
in Indira Dhanrajgir’s case new lumpens are entering the field with the passage
of time. Squandering her late father’s wealth, she is roping in new touts. Since
NTR’s wife Basava Tarakam passed away in 1984 and since he was old and sick
NTR’s marriage with LP has ethical basis and is legal completely. Whereas Indira
Dhanrajgir’s is neither ethical nor legal. Hence it is a street play. This is
the reason why after my father’s death she has been spending money on a larger
scale and indulging in false publicity and propaganda. Bh. Krishna Murthy,
Sadasiva Sharma (The then Editor of Andhra Prabha: Telugu Daily, presently with
Hindi Milap) Chandrasekhara Rao (Telugu lecturer: Methodist Degree College) etc.
are indulging in all sorts of heinous acts to propup Indira Dhanrajgir as my
father’s wife.
My father passed away on 30 May 2007. When our family was in grief and I was
performing the 11 day ritual as per my mother’s wish, the above mentioned
Sadasiva Sharma went to Municipal Office on 4th June, created ruckus, played
havoc telling them that he is from the Prime Minister’s Office, made some
‘senion officials’ make phone calls to the officials concerned and got my
father’s death certificate forcibly issued. When the entire family as mourning
the death of the family head, a stranger and a lumpen S.S. – Why did he collect
my father’s death certificate forcibly from the municipal authorities? Whom did
he collect it for?
THREE NAMES OF THE SAME PERSON IN 3 DECADES
This is perhaps for the first time that the name of a lady appears in 3 forms at
a time. Perhaps in 1970, in my father’s collection of poems “PAKSHULU” her name
appeared As Rajkumari India Devi Dhanrajgir. In 2006 she published a fake
version of Kamaostav (Rewritten by a muffian Called Chandrasekhar Rao). In this
book her name appears as Rajkumari India Devi Dhanrajgir Prior to 1970 in
Maqdoom Mohiuddeen’s (Renowned Urdu Poet) anthology of poetry ‘bisath-E-Raks’,
in Urdu as well as Hindi, at the end of two poems her name appears as Kumari
Indira Dhanrajgir. On 15th June 2007 A.P. State cultural affairs department and
Telugu University jointly held my father’s memorial meeting. Indira Dhanrajgir
hijacked this meeting by issuing her own commercial advertisements in English
and Telugu dailies. In these advertisements her name appeared as Smt. Indira
Devi Seshendra Sharma and again in the commercial public notices made by her in
the month of November 2007 her name appeared as Rajkumari devi etc. Why does her
name appear in different forms on different occasions? Will Indira Dhanrajgir
explain? Will Sadasiva Sharma clarify, who forcibly took my father’s death
certificate after four days of his death? Or will Bh. Krishna Murthy clarify?
If Indira Dhanrajgir has even an iota of regard, respect for or faith in love,
or relation, the institution of marriage, immediately after ‘Halebeed Circus’,
she would have used my father’s family sir name and her name would have appeared
as Gunturu Indira. Since she was conscious of her goal during all times and
conditions she did not take such a hasty and mindless step of change of her
name.
WHERE DOES THE REAL SECRET LIE?
Her life is totally illegal, anti-social and immoral.
Indira Dhanrajgir’s father performed her marriage with SrikishenSeth, Nephew of
the then Prime Minister to Nizam, Maharaja Kishen pershad in 1945. On the day of
marriage itself Indira Dhanrajgir beat SrikeshenSeth up and ran away from him.
She did not stop at that. She propagated among his friends and relatives and
near and dear that he was not enough of a man and unfit for conjugal/marital
life. She filed a divorce case against him and dragged it till 1969/70. Lion’s
share of her husband’s life got evaporated and was sapped completely by then.
His parents used to approach Indira Dhanrajgir’s father and plead with him to
preavail upon his daughter, put sense into her head and see that she either
lives with their son or dissolves the marriage legally so that they can remarry
off their son. But Indira Dhanrajgir did not heed. Raja Dhanrajgir after getting
disgusted with her nasty activities stipulated a mandatory condition in his
will. He stated that Indira Dhanrajgir would be entitled to get a share of his
property only if she is married.
This is the reason why INDIRA DHANRAJGIR who has no respect for the institution
of marriage or regard or desire for marital life, in the guise of love and love
poetry inflicted indelible blemish on the institution of marriage which is
unprecedented in the literary history of the world. After my father’s death she
has been indulging in more rigorous false publicity along with her coterie of
touts.
KAMOSTAV: STORY OF INDIRA DHANRAJGIR’S SOUL:
With this novel Kamostav, father’s literary life came to an end for good. He did
not produce literary works worth mentioning in his later phase of life. During
those days he asked for my opinion on that novel. I told him clearly that it
lacks the form and content of a novel; it does not have a story line, plot,
sequences, characters and eventually a message which every novel gives. Hence it
is a trash. Several people went to court and got its publication in a weekly
stopped. INDIRA DHANRAJGIR got this very trash rewritten completely by
Chandrasekhara Rao and printed it. This kind of heinous development has never
taken place in the recorded history of Telugu literature till date. A writing
which brought disrepute to my father in the literary field and isolated him in
the society, why did she get it rewritten by somebody and publish it claiming
copyright to be hers? What is her motive? What is her aim? That is why Kamotsav
is INDIRA DHANRAJGIR’s biography, story of her inner soul.
SESHENDRA’S COPYRIGHTS:
My father gifted away copyrights of his entire works along with their
translations to me by way of birth day gift to me on 2.12.1989. Since then I
have published several of his works during his lifetime itself. Kamostav, the
version that is secretly made available is the dirty work of cheapsters and
lumpens under the leadership of INDIRA DHANRAJGIR. It is much worse than
violation of copyrights. That is the reason why I have been reluctant to take
action so far. If she and her debased henchmen try to violate copyrights of my
father’s works bequeathed to me, I shall take exemplary legal action against
them.
INDIRA DHANRAJGIR made 2 public notices to the effect that my father cancelled
all his earlier transfer of copyrights and retransferred all his rights to her.
This is a palace intrigue in the modern era in our civilized society.
WHAT DOES LAW SAY ABOUT COPYRIGHTS?
An author can transfer copyrights of his works to any one as per her/his wish.
But the Copyrights Act 1957 and the Supreme Court in its various judgments has
clearly stipulated a procedure to revoke earlier assignment and transferring of
copyrights to somebody else subsequently. The author has to issue a notice to
the 1st assignee, giving 6 months time for reply. Depending on the reply the
author can take his next step. Where as in my father’s copyrights matter he did
not even inform me orally of any such cancellation. INDIRA DHANRAJGIR claims
that she has a typed document of transfer of copyrights signed by my father on
5.1.2006. Between 5.1.2006 and 30.5.2007, leave alone issuing a notice, he did
not even inform me orally.
Seshendra with Wife Janaki this photo was submitted in the Government Documents
in which he nominated her as his legal heir. 1975
My father who assigned copyrights to me in his own handwriting, when he was
relatively young and physically fit did not require to cancel the 1st assignment
when he was totally dilapidated, almost bedridden and was counting his days.
Another important aspect of the matter is that I have printed the Xerox of my
father’s document in his own works as early as 1995 and have been doing so from
time to time during his life time. Where as INDIRA DHANRAJGIR claims to possess
a document after my father’s death and she has not made it public so far. Indira
Dhanrajgir tried to get my father’s complete works published in different
languages by Telugu University (Hyderabad: A.P.: India) by paying them Rs. 6
lakhs. I approached Telugu University and apprised them of facts. On the advice
of legal experts, they stopped this project and returned Indira Dhanrajgir’s
money to her. It is an incontrovertible fact that Indira Dhanrajgir’s document
is a forged and fraudulent document which does not stand scrutiny before law.
Court shall certainly award her exemplary punishment. In all societies and times
literature has been social wealth/public property from time immemorial. It
should not be used as a mask to grab share of parental property illegally and
unethically. I am committed to this cause/ideal and appeal to the civilized
society to strengthen my hands in this endeavor. INDIRA DHANRAJGIR’s younger
brother Sri Mahendra Pratapgir is the lone leage heir apparent of that family
and keeping him in dark, she is squandering her father’s wealth in Telugu
literature for her nasty propaganda.
FATHER PASSED AWAY:
In 1997 when he suffered the 1st heart attack he was half-dead. Dr. Sudhakar
Reddy, cardiologist of Medicity Hospitals (Native of Warangal, A.P.) performed
angiogram and diagnosed that he had blocks in arteries and one valve was damaged
completely. He advised open heart surgery. But INDIRA DHANRAJGIR averted it and
got angioplasty performed. His health declined rapidly since then and was
leading the life of virtually an invalid till he breathed his last. He suffered
inexplicable mental and physical torture for about a decade. During the last leg
of his journey he was isolated from his family completely. He was deserted by
one and all in the literary field. When his younger brother passed away, his
younger sister passed away he did not visit his ancestral home in his village
and call on those families. He became target of jealousy and animosity in the
society. He became a victim of false impression with the society that he was an
aristocrat and rolling in luxuries. Whereas, he was deprived of even his native
vegetarian food for decades together. As a silent and helpless witness to these
painful happenings, I was subject to untold mental agony.
Seshendra's last metrical poem on his son Saatyaki
In the later half of March 2007 on one of my visits to him, I was aghast at his
condition. His entire body was swollen. His appearance was like that of a
stuffed gunny bag. I told him to get hospitalized. I told INDIRA DHANRAJGIR to
rush him to a hospital. But of no avail. On 30th May 2007 at about 11 pm I got a
phone call from her “Come soon/Serious” she said. As I entered at 11.15 pm “Go
inside/he is no more” she said.
“One day when swarms of lamps vanish, in the light of a lonely lamp I ask the
dumb pillars”.
“Can’t you liberate me from the disgust of this existence?
I ask those stand still forest flame trees
Which blossom flowers at that very place year after year” can’t you rescue me?
I ask those high roof tops and this Venetian furniture
Which every one feels are greater than me,
“can’t you rescue me from the disgust of this existence?”
All these answer in a melancholic voice
“We have been languishing since more than 100 years watching the same unchanging
scenes we are older prisoners than you are” (Janavamsham: Telugu: Seshendra:
Page 80-81:1993: Translated by me)
My father’s first biography (in Hindi) titled “Rashtrendu Seshendra: Ashesh
Aayaam” by Dr. Vishranth Vasishth appeared in 1994. Touching upon these very
sensitive aspects of my father’s life he commented in that book “SONE KE PINJRE
ME PANCHCHI” (A bird in a golden cage). Alarmed and agonized by his rapidly
declining health as early as June 2002, in order to bring pressure on INDIRA
DHANRAJGIR, I gave a 2 cassettes long interview to Vijayaviharam of Janaharsha
group. Later on when I enquired about that interview they said that in the raids
conducted on their premises, they got destroyed.
I wanted to rescue my father and bring him back home when he was in good health.
Alas! At last, I took him to the burial ground, laid him on the funeral pyre and
consigned him to flames and returned home all alone.
G. Satyaki
S/o Late G.Seshendra Sharma
E-mail: [email protected]
August, 2007
“Kaasyashcha parameswasaha sikhandeecha mahaarathaha
Drishtadyumno viraatascha Saatyakischaaparaajithaha”
-Bhagavat Gita-Chapter-1/17 sloka
------------------
PARDON ME FATHER
I could not rescue him from the clutches of that nymphomaniac and vampire. There
may be an exception or two but an average Indian woman desires from the depths
of her soul that her husband should live long and she should pass away before
him. She performs prayers and fasts on auspicious days for this purpose. She in
spite of being 3years elder to him did away with my father in a planned and
premeditated manner and I was a silent and helpless witness to it. He suffered
1st Heart attack in November 1997. Cardiologists performed angiogram and advised
open heart surgery. Because there were blocks in vessels and one valve was
damaged. But she successfully thwarted it and without my knowledge or informing
any one got angioplasty done in Mediciti (Hyderabad: AP; India) her plan was to
do away with him and live long, and establish herself as his wife through his
books. He was succumbing to her blackmail. My overwhelming hunch is that she was
threatening him with social insult and humiliation if he parts ways with her.
Between 1997-2007, she played football with his body. He used to be hospitalized
every now and then with swollen body and heart pain. Because of damaged valve
pumping was impaired and water used to accumulate in the system. Every time I
used to force her to hospitalize him. He used be in ICCU for a couple of days
and recover marginally. After each visit to hospital he was getting debilitated
gradually. He was put on wheel chair. He was virtually under house arrest. He
was not allowed to speak to friends and family members. Visitors were kept away.
He was taking Lasix (Tablet: is a diuretic that is used to treat fluid
accumulation, caused by heart failure, cirrhosis, chronic kidney failure, and
nephrotic syndrome.) to flush out water accumulated in his body. This creates a
painful dilemma in me whether my interference in his health matters was just. As
his son it was my moral duty to protect him. But I sometimes feel if I were not
to interfere she would have put him to death long ago and thus he would have
escaped from physical and mental torture quite early.
Towards perhaps end of the month of March she withdrew medication. He got
swollen suddenly and that condition continued till the last day i.e. 30th may
2007. Each time I visited I used to tell that witch to take him to hospital. But
after a couple of visits I got convinced that she made up her mind this time to
do away with him. I requested a bastard who was feigning to be a friend of mine,
who incidentally happens to be a legal luminary of this region to send a doctor
friend to that place and ascertain the exact condition of his health. But of no
avail.
I kept on telling him to come out of that place and lead a normal and healthy
life. Her blackmail gained an upper hand and I lost in my efforts to restore
health to him and bring him back to civilized society. O God pardon me for not
being able to outmaneuver her machinations. Pardon me father.