Digital history- Today the country has suffered a huge loss. People have lost an incomplete part of the Malviya family. Yes, we are talking about Justice Giridhar Malviya, the famous grandson of the great Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya. Who closed his eyes.
Let us tell you that in the pilgrimage city of Prayagraj, Giridhar Malviya had also associated himself with the institutions with which Mahamana Madan Mohan Malviya was associated. The values inherited from his father Pandit Govind Malviya, who served the family and country as Mahamana’s son and personal secretary, and his mother Usha Malviya, who served the family and country with humility and dedication even in adverse circumstances, Service and values were instilled in Giridhar Malviya. The dedication ritual was given.
For your information, after the fifth daughter Satya, Giridhar Malviya was born on November 14, 1936, on the day of Pratipada Govardhan Pujan of Kartik Shukla. The grandmother (Mahamana’s wife) had gone to bathe in the Ganges. Upon returning, he was overjoyed when he received the news of Giridhar’s birth. She said that on the day of Govardhan Puja, Narayan himself came in the form of Giridhar and the child was named Giridhar.
Giridhar was born in Mahamana’s room, perhaps that is why his nature also remained as soft as Mahamana’s. At the age of about 8, he underwent Yagyopavit Sanskar, then Mahamana himself initiated it. Mahamana was a renowned lawyer of the Allahabad High Court. Father Pandit Govind Malviya wanted Giridhar to also become a lawyer and attain a higher position in the future.
On the night of March 8, 1988, when Chief Justice Amitabh Banerjee called, mother Usha Malviya picked up the phone and called Giridhar. The Chief Justice said over the phone that Giridhar had become a High Court judge. Giridhar touched his mother’s feet, approached his father’s photo and said, “Your wish has been fulfilled.” Then, on March 14, he took over as a Superior Court judge. His work and exercise as a judge were exemplary and memorable.
Initial studies…
Let us tell you that Giridhar Malviya’s primary education was at the Besant Theosophical School in Varanasi. He passed secondary school at Kashi Hindu University Nursery School. He earned a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Arts in Political Science from Banaras Hindu University. He began practicing law in 1960. A year earlier, he practiced law in the Tis Hazari Court of Delhi with Sardar Gyan Singh Vohra. When his father died in 1961, he came to Prayagraj in 1965 and began practicing law in the District Court with Pandit Vishwanath Pandey and Satyanarayan Mishra.
Apart from this, there is an interesting fact about Justice Giridhar Malviya. He was considered the son of God. Harishchandra Malviya, a person close to him, says that Justice Giridhar Malviya’s father Govind Malviya had seven daughters. Ratna was not going to have any child. The family was happy with the daughters, but there was a desire from God to also have a son.
It is also worth noting that after Justice Prem Shankar Gupta, this is the second big blow for the city in terms of the national Hindi language. Giridhar Malviya was a very worthy son of his Hindi. Girdhar Malviya, who lived the legacy of Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya as a value of his life, felt as if the city of Sangam was breathing in his mind, that is why his syncretistic approach often overwhelmed him. He used to meet everyone openly. Whenever I saw him I found him full of cultural concerns. He used to get restless about the changes in the city and used to say that his Prayag is the city of Mahadevi, the goddess of compassion. Mahaprana Nirala’s poems breathe here, poet Sumitranandan Pant’s verses reside here in the soul, so why does a sensitive poet like Kailash Gautam have to say this…?
Justice Giridhar Malviya played an important role as Chairman of the Bharati Bhavan Library. He took many measures for the preservation of the library. His dying wish was that the nearly 300-year-old manuscripts kept in the library would be digitized. Justice Giridhar Malviya has been its president since 1998. Currently he also held this position but after the arrival of Covid-19 he had stopped going to the library.
