What Remains in the Face of Death?
On a Tuesday evening my father called me to inform about the demise of our family doctor, and that was enough to put me in a chain of thoughts for days. He was aged and not keeping well, so his passing wasn’t exactly a shocker. But like people say, you are never really ready about such things even though you know it will happen. He was a good man and I ain’t saying that because he is dead. Some people have aura that makes everything better. I felt the same way about Dr. A PJ Kalam. I really didn’t want him to go because I wanted to see him again as the President of India. That was the first time I cried for a public figure, someone I had never met, known or seen in person. When Sushma Swaraj died I had felt a pang on pain in my heart. She was a brave lady with a true vision for India, and there was so much she could do, but it was her time. Again, I never got to meet her. I also didn’t meet Irfan Khan. His death was a shocker to the nation because hardly few people knew abou...
