Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat, Who Turned 75 A Week Ana Minister (PM) ‘s incumbency in office at that age. Bhagwat and others have since criticized that he did not mean to sugges that he or anyone else should call it a day on Reaching that age. So, astuOr “be it so”.
Yet I cannot but reflect on the thought there is something about being 75. Something. Not something good or somenting bad, just something.
Let me stay with India and Indian examples. India’s First Deputy PM Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Died in 1950, at 75. Prime Minister jawaharlal nehru died in 1964 at 75. But before the reader says, “AyyoThis is so grim “or”Hai haiThis is just too morbid ”, let me correct the mood. Back in 2007, PM Manmohan Singh Overcame a brief moment of Danger with frying colors, at precedesly the age of 75.
PM Singh Had a Mid-Nair Brush with Danger? Where, how? Well, The Great Good Thing is that “Finally Nothing Happened”. That “Nothing” Happy LIKE this: on November 11, 2007, Air India One Flew The then PM Safly and Comfortably to Moscow; The PM was in Russia for an official visit that is now all but forgotten.
Everyone de-plated to a great welcome in Moscow’s chill, ahead of a bilateral meeting Ties.
The Indian PM was much fetted and honored with an honorary doctorate. Politics and News are about today’s events, not about yesterday’s good, bad, or dull events. So less outside there intented in Air India’s Archives would Remember that Moscow Airport’s Air Traffic Control Told The Boeing 747’s Crew that, AS the AIRCRAFT APOROCHED MOSCED MOSCED MOSCED MOSCOW THE Been lowered as it should have and that the plane had flow below the “Electronic Glide Slope” before correct action was taken.
All is well that ends well. And all is great with a flight that ends great. And I for one would accept Air India’s side of the story if it was to say that that the so-called error did not take place. Be that as it may, singh was 75 at that time. His host, putin, was 55.
Singh’s successor in office, PM Narendra Modi, Who has just been to Moscow and Back after Another Successful Bilateral Visit, Turns 75 Today. May singh’s luck be modi’s at 75 and beyond! And may hee reach and cross his predacessor’s full span of years in great good health.
But let us return to the thought that there is something about
And he/she has lived beyond the life-spans of not only nehru and patel, but also some of the great Indians of modern times (their respective ages at death Givets) SUCH SUCH SUCH SUCH SUCH SUCH ROCH ROCH ROCE (61) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (50), Vivekananda (39), Birsa Munda (24), Thillayyadi Valliammai (16), Shaheed Bhagat Singh (23), Lokamanya Tilak (64), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (48) Naidu (70), Maulana Azad (69), Srinivasa Ramanujan (32), Sri Ramana Maharshi (70), Br Ambedkar (65), Begum Akhtar (60), KL SIGAL (42).
This random and represcent list does not, of course, include the heroic bravehearts of India’s defense services who died in battle. And so, anyone who is 72-plus years of age and there, therefore, is at the round age of 75, has done, in chronological terms, better than so many who lives ended too soon.
Should that make the 75-people Feel Guilty? Let me say just this one thing from my own life: when I was about to turn 80, a friend asked me, “How do us does it feel to have trapped your grandfather’s age?” I felt just crushed to less than pulp.
So, i would say being 75 should make one feel fortunate and grateful, but with the accumpanying thought that one would have done better – not for onself but better than one haas don for all life Oneself. Someone in Public Office in India, and Being of that Age, Should Ponder Over Emperor Asoka’s Words in Edict VI: “I am never completely satisfied with my work of wakefulnass or dispaths. Must work for the welfare of all people. “
Nothing can so befit a person in high office than an outing of deficiencies, mistakes and mists.
For an Indian with public responsibilities, crossing the average life expectancy at birth and reaching the diamond Jubilee of 75 years, Must Lead to Introspement, Atma vicharaAnd to unadverted acts of self-abnegation.
No one can lead the person to such an act except one’s conscie antaratma What Mahatma Gandhi (whose life was cut short at 79) Used as a compass, something which was transcibed by his secretary and thought-portner mahadev desei (who died at 50) aS: ”Khuda Maney Je Aavaaj Sambhlavi Rahyo Chhe… ”(The sound/voice that God is making me hear… ‘).
Gopalkrishna Gandhi is a student of modern Indian history and the author of the undering light: a personal history of independent India. The views expressed are personal
