Thread by @anexcommie

When I was in school, I was one among the 5 chosen for republic day parade, at Delhi. Very young , a trip to Delhi was far important than the parade itself, which I realised later was a fallacy.. those few days were to change the course of my life in later days, when I was

seriously contemplating leaving the leftists movement (it was very difficult those days, as I was holding office right from my SFI days - a part of these harsh realities later was depicted in the Tamil magazine KALKI in a serial story); was growing up, and was keen on doing well

socially (what a farce that turned out to be), though I continued to pen articles on political issues (certainly against DMK was priority), I had an opportunity to go abroad. It was a good stint and from the beginning I was sure of wanting to come back - which I did eventually.

Late PRK a great guy from childhood and school, an Ayurvedic doctor , a staunch RSS person from school days itself; our relationship was evergreen. On one of the holiday trips, I was keen on a trip to Bhuj in Gujarat, which was phenomenally set right after the great killer

Earthquake that destroyed the region. Shri. Narendra Modi was an RSS karyakarta and if I'm not mistaken he was the general secretary in BJP and ABV & LKA sent him, as Keshubhai was not performing as expected. It was crucial that BJP had to win the upcoming elections. Shri. Modi

had no administrative experience whatsoever at that point of time - however he knew what had to be done and did it..the resurrection of Kutch region is and will always be a part of Indian history, geography, political will of the people. I'm not exaggerating here - it's this area

that enabled him to handle COVID when the world was predicting India being wiped off the map. I've seen people being rudely sarcastic when he suggested lighting diyas, blowing the conch - in Dravidian language - beating plates - among other issues - he was very clear - unless

People believed that the pandemic can be overcome ,if they helped themselves and Indians arose to the call. Let the luteyns say whatever they want - this man knows to read the pulse of the people - not even his worst critic can deny that. There will be hecklers raising noise -

This noise is from a group of people who had their personal agenda to be set as a national narrative - that did not happen & it'll not happen. I'll bet on that. Why all's this now? The area I live is an external part on the fringe of a tier 3 town. Predominantly Dravidian till 3

years ago, today , as I've seen it visually, participated in removing the fear of vaccine,(believe me it's very difficult in rural India which is still controlled by old timers - not necessarily the rich),me being old helped. Albeit small, the benefits shelled out reached the

People. From guiding them to have them register themselves under various schemes (even now most VAO's and RI's are very weary of me):it was just wonderful to see these people happy. The bankers who were sceptic about the return of loans, are today willing to extend their arms ,

which includes SHG. I am not going to discuss the political mileage on this as it's not relevant here. However, my respect for this man after my visit to the Kutch region,my own father laughed at me when I stated that this man is PM material and ok it happened. Unfortunately for

me, he was not alive when he did become PM. My respect remains untainted till date. May be it'll be my grandchildren who will be reaping the benefits of this progress,but that I'm still around to see the seeds sowed (none of it can be reversed), since yesterday I've been invited

for the flag hoisting ceremony across the town, and my answer has been - get the senior most person of the locality (Viswaguru I loved your tweet on date); in the place I'm staying atleast around 30 people,till now, came home to show photos and their pride was visible. If someone

is telling me will it bring patriotism , my answer is watch what's happening.
#JaiHind
A few photos. @rspchary a lot credit goes to your helping out in giving me inputs on the schemes. Ofcourse it would be denial if I'm to state there was no motive - the motive was to help

these folks to get into the national stream. Take responsibility and stop forgetting the freebies.
#ILoveMyIndia

It was PRK helping out on my trip to Kutch that cleaned out a lot of cobwebs in my mind

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