You are right Vijay. PV's biggest undoing was not  having successor to enable him to create a "PV Dynasty. "

I don't subscribe to this line of thought that sons and daughters help in perpetuating the memory of their parents all the time. We have examples galore in our midst disproving this construct. For example Nehru's fame and stature won't have scarely dented by deeds or misdeeds by his descendants. There are many luminaries whose glory continue to dazzle us without any conscious efforts from any quarters or any person like Sardar Patel, Netaji and many others. Interestingly there are two kinds of activities which fetch eternal fame and notoriety. And Sonia Gandhi and the party she leads practiced in relation to late Rao a meanness of a sickening kind. With all efforts to demonize ,demean and degrade him, he may have earned a permanent place in Indian history.

There is no need for a memorial for each and every politician or for anyone else for that matter, it is a human weakness that exists to glorify others and hope they would be glorified some day ...as long as a person is remembered for his good deeds and contributions , and not made the scapegoat for all things gone wrong which is what has happened with PVN now

Memorials make little or no difference. It's the work one puts up which is good for the Nation and the society that counts.

chinmoymukherjee wrote:

I don't subscribe to this line of thought that sons and daughters help in perpetuating the memory of their parents all the time. We have examples galore in our midst disproving this construct. For example Nehru's fame and stature won't have scarely dented by deeds or misdeeds by his descendants. There are many luminaries whose glory continue to dazzle us without any conscious efforts from any quarters or any person like Sardar Patel, Netaji and many others. Interestingly there are two kinds of activities which fetch eternal fame and notoriety. And Sonia Gandhi and the party she leads practiced in relation to late Rao a meanness of a sickening kind. With all efforts to demonize ,demean and degrade him, he may have earned a permanent place in Indian history.

Lal Bahadur Shastri is another leader who is not remembered the way he should be, and his son was never a leading politician in Congress, one hradly gets to hear of him these days..

That's how the things went in the erstwhile rule (Mis) of congress.