Mody or Modi, does it make any difference

Once some wit said “what’s in a name?” they owe me nothing.
But the same Modi or Mody does carry a lot of history of stories.
We have had quite a few persons of that name in India’s history who have hit the headlines.

Piloo Mody was an Indian politician and the founder of the Swatantra Party. He was an advocate of liberal and free politics of India. He was a member of the 4th and 5th Lok Sabha. He represented Godhra constituency in Gujarat in the parliament. Later, he was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 10 April, 1978 till his death. A member of the Parsi community, he was married to a Swiss national. An architecture school and a FIDE chess tournament are named in his honour.
Mody was educated at The Doon School, Dehradun and at the University of California, Berkeley, from where he did his Masters degree in Architecture. He was close to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister, his school and college roommate. Piloo Mody was a great friend of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and wrote the book Zulfy my Friend ".
His brother, Russi Mody is a former chairman of Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited. Piloo was arrested by Indira Gandhi government under MISA in Emergency in India in 1975
Piloo lightened the proceedings in parliament with his humour.
Mr. Piloo Mody was once talking to a member sitting behind his seat. Shri Sita Ram Kesari addressing the Chair said, “Sir, Piloo Mody is standing with his back to the Chair which is highly objectionable.” Thereupon, the Chairman observed. “Don’t worry about Piloo Mody; he has no front or back, he is just round.” Mr. Piloo Mody was a fat and rotund member of the House

My favourite example of parliamentary humour, however, was a placard that sometime in the early 1970s was hung over the capacious form of the architect-turned-politician Piloo Mody. It bore the words: 'I AM A CIA AGENT'.
This was done because Indira Gandhi accused anyone who opposed her as being CIA Agents.

Russi Mody: He is the brother of Piloo but more famous because of his association with the house of Tatas although the breakup with the Tatas left an unpleasant taste in the mouth. The retirement was acrimonious which should have been avoided.

Syed Mody
Syed Modi (1962–1988) was an Indian badminton player, and an eight-time National Badminton champion (1980–87). He won the Austrian International in 1983 and 1984 and 1982 Commonwealth Games, Men's singles title [3]. His play displayed a mix of stylist Suresh Goel, of whom he was a protégé, and the effectiveness of Prakash Padukone, whom he succeed as a National Champion.
Modi was murdered on July 23, 1988 in Lucknow as he came out of the K. D. Singh Babu Stadium after a practice session. After his death, a badminton tournament was constituted in his memory, "Syed Modi Memorial", All India Syed Modi badminton championship hosted each year at Lucknow which turned into "Syed Modi International Challenge" in 2004, and starting December 2009 it would turn into "Syed Modi Grand Prix", organized by Badminton Association of India. The Railways of which he was an employee, opened the Syed Modi Railway stadium and auditorium at his native place, Gorakhpur.
The scandal surrounding Modi's murder attracted worldwide attention and remains unsolved with those charged having been set free. Doubts have been raised against Modi's wife Amita and her alleged paramour Sanjay Singh, an Indian politician, a former BJP Rajya Sabha member and a Lok Sabha member from Amethi, politician Akhilesh Singh, and Akhilesh's henchmen — Bhagwati Singh alias Pappu, Jitendra Singh alias Tinku, Amar Bahadur Singh and Balai Singh. The UP government recommended a CBI probe into the case, which in turn named the seven in its charge sheet filed on Nov 7, 1998. While Amita, Sanjay and Akhilesh were charge sheeted for conspiracy, the others were named for executing the act. Amita and Sanjay Singh challenged the charge sheet, before the sessions judge who dropped the case against them on Sept 17, 1990. Amita eventually married Sanjay Singh and changed her name from Amita Modi to Amita Singh. Akhilesh was exonerated by Allahabad High Court in 1996, subsequently all the three discharges were upheld by the Supreme Court. Out of the remaining four accused Amar Bahadur Singh was murdered and Balai Singh died during the course of trial, thus the remaining two accused, Bhagwati Singh and Jitendra, were put on trial by the CBI, though Jitendra Singh was also exonerated later
On August 22, 2009, nearly two decades after the murder the accused Bhagwati Singh, the lone surviving accused, was found guilty on two counts under Section 302 (murder) and Section 27 (possessing illegal arms) of IPC, by a Lucknow sessions court, which sentenced him to life imprisonment though the CBI had sought death sentence for him, plus from the life sentence, he was also given Rs 40,000 fine as also five years' RI and Rs 10,000 fine for recovery of unauthorized weapon from his possession.
People still feel that this was a clear case of justice miscarried as the accused were rich and powerful persons

Narendra Modi: This person requires no introduction. This blog would not be able to write all about him. He would require volumes.
People have two opposing views of him, either admiration or hatred.. He has been accused of instigating the riots in Gujarat post the train massacre in Godhra. The cases are still going on and it would be inadvisable to comment on them. The other feeling of admiration is for all that he has done for Gujarat. He was also instrumental in snatching the Nano car project from Bengal and taking it to Gujarat. Even people opposed to him in Gujarat concede that he has done to Gujarat in 10 years what the Congress and other BJP chief ministers could not do in 50 years. He is also known to be honest and a no nonsense CM. He neither takes bribes nor allows his government staff to take it. That is the secret of Gujarat’s developing fast. If in any state, the files move slowly, you may rest assured the officers concerned are taking bribes to clear the files.
Sushil Modi: He is the Dy. Chief Minister and leader of the BJP in Bihar. A banyan tree does not allow any other plants near it. So is the case with Sushil. He is overshadowed by Nitish Kumar, the chief minister, in all aspects so not much is known of him. However, the fact that the coalition in Bihar is still running is due to the understanding between Nitish Kumar and Sushil Modi. The Lalus and Paswans have tried to drive a wedge between them but so far they have filed..

Lalit Modi: He is the last but not the least important of the Modis. He has shrewd business sense and has made the IPL from scratch to its present powerful spots body. However, power and the madness to earn money and more money has been his undoing. Pride goes before fall. We all know the saying but we think it is for others. His pride made him many enemies who are all out now with their knives to cut him down to size.. I don’t think he has many days left as IPL chief.