Copy of an email sent by me to Binu Nairji of the Rafi Foundation, Mumbai.
Yes Binuji, agreed that we the fans of Rafi Sahab have done precious little on this matter and that one web article will never be able to achieve the Bharat Ratna to Rafi Sahab. I have been pleading with you all for the last one year to take up the campaign and have given several times suggestions, offer my help in collecting signatures, writing letters to political parties, sending emails to all the websites of political parties, enticing the media (both print and visual) to aid us in our campaign, and most importantly to start the campaign long long back. You will appreciate that individually we cannot do these things and it requires the backing of a strong organization which the Rafi Foundation should have become by now. Unfortunately, that is not the case also. What is the membership of the Rafi Foundation ? I have posted on several websites and also am campaigning on several fora for membership drive and asking Rafi Fans in various cities to start branches (wings) of the Rafi Foundation. You will recall that when the first article appeared on www.mohdrafi.com sometime last year (again by Raju Kortiji), I had written on these very lines. What was done between that time and the newest article now on the same website ? Nothing concrete. I have even this time suggested that MPs from Punjab, more particularly Navjot Singh Siddhu (who represents Amritsar in the Parliament) should be approached.
Whatever be the political pressures and compulsions, our efforts too should have been there on this matter and if we continue in this same fashion, let us forget the issue in toto. There is no point in further wasting our time on an issue on which we ourselves are not serious. If every Rafi Fan was to take matters into his/her hands, then there will never be any direction in any activity and hence the matter was left to the Rafi Foundation from the begining to lead us all. I have also several times commented on the same website that we the Rafi Fans are with you in all your such campaigns.
I can also assure you that just as you have been pointing out the apathy of Rafi fans to any such causes, many of them think on similar lines about the Rafi Foundation too and comment that the activities of Rafi Foundation is limited to just staging the "Second Saturday" programmes in Mumbai and otherwise writing their individual comments on www.mohdrafi.com. I have seen in recent times many big fans of Rafi Sahab and who are doing wonderful work in their own capacity and not one of them is a member of the Rafi Foundation for reasons best known to them.
And as long as the Rafi Foundation does not lead us all, we the Rafi Fans will continue to pursue our own interests, including showcasing our "singing abilities", for we all require some satisfaction after all in whatever we do.
With best regards,
A S MURTY = HYDERABAD.
Yes Binuji, agreed that we the fans of Rafi Sahab have done precious little on this matter and that one web article will never be able to achieve the Bharat Ratna to Rafi Sahab. I have been pleading with you all for the last one year to take up the campaign and have given several times suggestions, offer my help in collecting signatures, writing letters to political parties, sending emails to all the websites of political parties, enticing the media (both print and visual) to aid us in our campaign, and most importantly to start the campaign long long back. You will appreciate that individually we cannot do these things and it requires the backing of a strong organization which the Rafi Foundation should have become by now. Unfortunately, that is not the case also. What is the membership of the Rafi Foundation ? I have posted on several websites and also am campaigning on several fora for membership drive and asking Rafi Fans in various cities to start branches (wings) of the Rafi Foundation. You will recall that when the first article appeared on www.mohdrafi.com sometime last year (again by Raju Kortiji), I had written on these very lines. What was done between that time and the newest article now on the same website ? Nothing concrete. I have even this time suggested that MPs from Punjab, more particularly Navjot Singh Siddhu (who represents Amritsar in the Parliament) should be approached.
Whatever be the political pressures and compulsions, our efforts too should have been there on this matter and if we continue in this same fashion, let us forget the issue in toto. There is no point in further wasting our time on an issue on which we ourselves are not serious. If every Rafi Fan was to take matters into his/her hands, then there will never be any direction in any activity and hence the matter was left to the Rafi Foundation from the begining to lead us all. I have also several times commented on the same website that we the Rafi Fans are with you in all your such campaigns.
I can also assure you that just as you have been pointing out the apathy of Rafi fans to any such causes, many of them think on similar lines about the Rafi Foundation too and comment that the activities of Rafi Foundation is limited to just staging the "Second Saturday" programmes in Mumbai and otherwise writing their individual comments on www.mohdrafi.com. I have seen in recent times many big fans of Rafi Sahab and who are doing wonderful work in their own capacity and not one of them is a member of the Rafi Foundation for reasons best known to them.
And as long as the Rafi Foundation does not lead us all, we the Rafi Fans will continue to pursue our own interests, including showcasing our "singing abilities", for we all require some satisfaction after all in whatever we do.
With best regards,
A S MURTY = HYDERABAD.
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