Remembering ATAL Ji……!!!!!
I must say that I was very small did not understand politics at all back then, merely 10 when Atalji became the prime minister. I back then used to spend a lot of time at my grandparents place and thus spent watching parliamentary debates that my grandpa watched. Of course I understood nothing back then and found it boring , only to realize years later how that discussions in the parliament I was watching then with no clue are shaping my life today in very real and tangible terms. Enormity of those decisions and the path that it took the nation is something beyond words. As all kids of the 90’s, a young westernized boy, I was a little awkward to see my prime minister walk in Dhoti and speak in Hindi more than English, only to later realize how foolish I was to judge by attire and to mock the magnanimity and the depth of the Hindi language , the virat and advitiya sanksritik heritage that it has and the worldly knowledge it brings. Atlaji thought me to hold pr