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 pride in the heritage and history, he thought to proudly embrace our Hinduness and showcase it to the world in true spirit. While doing that on one hand, the economic reforms that he took … the path of privatization adopted under his government made us truly embrace market economics and liberated us from a state controlled socialists order in an unimaginable way the path of course first ventured by PV Narshimha Rao ji and Manmohan ji under compulsion was made a high on which Indian moved into top gear under Vajpai jee ji . The Pokhran test have to be the crowning jewel  that showed India not just talks Ahimsha but talks it from a position of strength. His almost 65 yrs in politics and the journey from 2seats in to the now 272+ in 2014 is a lesson in hard work and never say die attitude. It is what took BJP from scratch to a formidable election machine. The man, a statesman, a poet, a leader, an architect of modern politics who’s words cut through like sword when needed and also felt like cool breeze at other times. Looking at him u realize why pen is mightier than the sword, because words have the power to shape thousands of lives and his words indeed did just that.
Never to forget that such great sons of India was once called communal, hardliner, anti free speech and freedom of expression by the same people in the “intellectual mainstream” and scripted is fall in 2004 as we learn from the archives of the now powerful social media, same mainstream who is busy shedding crocodile tears showering  flowers of secularism for him today. Finally has his soul leaves his body I will not utter the words R.I.P, as our INDIC philosophy says that atma amar hai and it takes rebirths, I wish he takes several such rebirths to shape the minds and convictions of million youths, make them restless as he was and keep shaping the national discourse towards a truly VIRAT and AJINKYA BHARAT…….!!!!
I will borrow his words to end this Sharandhajali to him
“ SATTA KA KHEL TO CHALEGA , SARKARE AYENGI JAYENGI, PARTIYA BANEGI BIGDENGI  , MAGAR YE DESH REHENA CHAHIYE , USKA LOKTANTRA AMAR REHENA CHAHI YE …. “
This difference and “ BHARAT TERE TUKDE HONGE “ and BHARAT KI BARBADI TAK JANG RAHEGI” is the difference  that  is what exists between his followers and his political rivals and the way they  choose to exercise their  freedom of expression…!!!!

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