After almost thirty years as a reporter, I’m convinced India is a land of a million epics. In nondescript towns and dilapidated villages, glow stories of the human spirit that dwarf landscape and geography. Election time brings travel to far flung corners to take stock, for the citizen, the state of Indian democracy.
Every election also brings an opportunity to meet a range of people many of whose life stories lift one’s own existence and fill the world, for a few fleeting moments perhaps, with awe and wonder. Meeting Dr Kumudini Sonkuwar Pawde in Nagpur this weekend was such an experience for me.
As I walked into her home in Nagpur, filled with artifacts of B.R Ambedkar and the freedom struggle, I Read More
