Letter for chacha ji
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in hindi or english???
Answer:
please give thanks
Explanation:
Dear Chachaji,
I know that today is your birthday. A 23 year old writing a letter to a dead man on children’s day might be a bit fatuous; but for the romantic life that you led and the dreams you had, I am sure this isn’t impudent enough.
I know that you are long dead. I know that you will scold me for writing to a dead man. You didn’t believe in life after death. You didn’t believe in god. I can only imagine that startled look on your learned face, when you saw millions of your countrymen killing each other in the name of their imaginary friends.
Ram or Allah, didn’t save any of them. From Noakhali to Lahore, as the pestilence spread with the wind, you were inheriting a colossal legacy that could crumble any normal soul.
Yet you, along with your friends, took it upon your shoulder — just like the mighty Atlas and steered us out of that phase. I know that people of my generation are ignorant and contemptuous of this past. They like to believe that everything that we see around us came into existence out of nothing.
Just like the way they believe that this world was “created” by someone, they hope for a messiah to appear from nowhere and fix it for them. The institutions you built and the efforts you led to make India a great nation, is nothing to them!
I see the crazy cauldron that was world politics, when you took the helm. The Cold War. The Chinese aggression, vices of the not so “free trade” and much more!
I have read the letters you sent to Indira. When they got published as “The Glimpses of World History”, nobody would believe that this 1200 pages of comprehensive world history was written by a man who was jailed and had no access to reference books and solely relied on his memory to recollect 3500 years of world history!
You made H.G Wells look singularly insular to the world, but your own countrymen can’t comprehend what you are. I am not blaming them. For the fairy tale life that you led Chachaji, it is quite understandable when they can’t comprehend what you are.
You built institutions. You sat with mathematicians and scientists like H.J Bhabha and P.C Mahalanobis to formulate policy. You derived courage from the masses, wisdom from the learned and knowledge from the experts.
In 2017, Arun Jaitley is slated to realise 72,000 crores by dis-investing public sector enterprises. Still some people ask what you did for the nation. I don’t know how to answer them!
Then we have the IITs, IIMs and other institutions that you built. Perhaps it’s my fault, talking to them. Many of them are only used to rallying a mob and tearing down monuments. What is the point in talking about nation building to them?