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Wrote this in October 2016 which now appears in a disjointed format. So rewriting it with better experience in Twitter Threads.
#MountainOfPeace

In upmarket Delhi
Shantiniketan, Vasant Vihar, Golf Links, Sundar Nagar, West End, Malcha Marg, Defence Colony etc

You'll hear of a son fighting his father, brother litigating brother, a sister demanding her 'rightful' share of property & money.
The cream of Delhi - politicians, senior bureaucrats, writers intellectuals, historians, lawyers, doctors, publishers & journalists...

fight tooth & nail for a few hundred sq yards.
Builders & lawyers get involved.
Families break.
Sides are taken.
It's WAR
Underhand action of one sibling is met with swift & equal retaliation by other....

Some of these people write long sermonising op-eds, head committees, appear on TV, meet up at the IIC & the Delhi Gymkhana
and in drawing rooms they vociferously defend the Doctrine of High Moral Ground....

They visit & host alumni from Lahore colleges, play friendly golf tournaments & proudly brag of Pakistani hospitality.
They preach - Talks, Peace, Brotherhood & turning the other cheek when it comes to the aggressor against our country.

But strangely, for people who say they know best & think they know all.
India somehow doesn't quite ignite the same passion, loyalty, pride & fighting spirit in them, as a block of swanky apartments.
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In 2013 during the course of a project I had the opportunity to work alongside a Scandinavian couple who had enjoyed their 3 year stint in India & had taken every opportunity to travel at length the country before returning home.
One day, as they were about to leave my office he turned to me & said:

~I have to ask you this ! Because I can no longer hold back the question.
How does a country of a billion people with a democratic tradition accept Sonia Gandhi, a foreigner, as the Super PM ?~
~I’m absolutely flabbergasted that Indians think they live in a democracy seemingly oblivious of the unconstitutionality of this person taking all major decisions. Worse than a dictatorship where at least the dictator pretends he has the mandate of the people~
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Every time someone says #BoycottChineseProducts others pop up with -
Then throw your iPhone out…
Dump your car…
Close the pharma industry…
Bring down the statue…

For God’s sake the point is from NOW ONWARDS do whatever you can & make that dent no matter however small.
No one is expecting that big bonfire of Chinese goods
But
only in the last week I chose to buy -
an Indian oximeter over a Chinese one
Indian paint compressor
Indian plastic bucket
Indian LED strip lights
& I will continue to make that deliberate choice in whichever way I can.
So please don’t let the cynics & professional nay-sayers get you down.

~Little victories,
Lead to bigger victories that affect the battle that eventually win the War.
Winning begins small~
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11th Jan 1985
7.30 pm
We received a call on our landline which worked 2 weeks out of 4 from my brother’s friend.

There had been an accident & both of them were at AIIMS.
A DTC bus with no headlights had rammed into their GTS.
Thankfully they were wearing helmets but my brother riding pillion, took the brunt of the impact.

Later we learnt that a taxi driver with the help of the bus passengers took both unconscious boys to AIIMS but dumped them at the Emergency entrance fearing police repercussions.
The friend, after coming to, had received first aid & was being discharged when he called me.
My brother, he said was lying unconscious, unattended, as he was considered unclaimed.
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