write a letter to the editor of a newspaper hindustan times complaining him about the non maintainance of road joining the hilly areas of nha1
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23/08/2020
A family portrait of Arun Jaitley, his wife Sangeeta, and their children Rohan and Sonali, by Mahesh Pandit. HT archive
On the morning of 15th August, I watched as the Prime Minister spoke of the government’s efforts to provide affordable sanitary napkins, emphasising the importance of women’s health in his Independence Day speech. It was inspiring to see our country’s top leader speak freely about these issues, and attempt to make them mainstream in public discussion.
I continued to ponder over progressive thinking, and it struck me — it’s been almost a year since we lost dad. Whether it was his lifelong support for implementation of a Uniform Civil Code, staunch opposition to regressive personal laws or exemplary foresight of the importance of skilling youth — he was undoubtedly the most visionary figure I knew.
You see, the world already knows of Arun Jaitley’s professional prowess. We know how he spoke, we know how he acted. I thus do not wish to eulogise him today, but to simply remember what made him, him.
And as the memories begin to flow, I write not of the astute politician or lawyer — I write of the man who was my father…
He was forged in fire as a young man, imprisoned in 1975 as an ABVP karyakarta for protesting against the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi. This stint in prison stayed with him forever, permanently impacting his health. However, it never dented his spirit — instead giving him a steely resolve and an iron will. Many friends he made in jail remained close to him till the end.
When I was young, he attended every annual day and parent-teacher interaction at school. This was all the more special because he was at the time a party worker, lawyer as well as India’s ASG (also tasked with investigating the Bofors scam). Though the country always came first, he never neglected his family. Festivals, birthdays, other essential engagements — he was there every time. Though at the time a senior minister in the Modi government, he made time to personally make all the arrangements for my wedding!
A firm believer in family values, he talked of how elders had made us what we were. As a society, it was thus our duty to be there for them and give them their due. True to this ethos, he introduced several benefits in the 2018 budget such as hiking the exemption limit on income from interest for senior citizens by five times.