We are drenched in admirations from the whole world on the economic strides made in the last decade. Already the projections are available for 2025, when India will be behind US and China to become the third largest economy dwarfing Europe. Elections are being fought on economic agendas too. All this is because of one man who chose to take the road less taken. The man who was the invisible hand behind the change. The shrewd brain that gave India the direction when the world became Unipolar and the cold war ended. There was no USSR to back India, no money in the coffers, Kashmir and Punjab were burning. We as a nation, were about to fail. Mr PV Narasimha Rao changed all this. He gave the nation a new lease of life and set the path for a deserving place in the new world order. And he passed away last week. Congress did not even let his body inside their office. It was laid infront of the office, outside the gate. And there was a behind the scene tussle regarding cremating him in New Delhi, the grave yard leased to Gandhi family. His body was flown to Hyderabad and cremated there. The story does not end here. What I say now is a reproduction of a first hand narration from my friend in Hyderabad. He reached the cremation site at 9 pm, way after it started(2 PM). Our former PMs body lies there half burnt with no wood. No police nor family to see to it. Did he deserve this? Would we even let a dog die this death for that matter?
Has this nation has lost its conscience? He deserves a place that is far better than a memorial in New Delhi. Our generation will thank him for giving us all this whole new dimension of opportunities. We must remember him and cherish whatever he did for the nation and its destiny.
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