It’s rather a dull Saturday morning made even duller by Indian cricket team’s lackluster performance which lacked any sting or application. I am yet to come out of my slumber but I am determined to write a post for my blog. If I start now I have all the time till Sunday evening to complete it I have been thinking about lot of topics to write but then zeroed in on one man whom I admire for his outlook towards life.
Gandhiji hated liquor his whole life and don’t run in to a conclusion that I am going to write about him as that’s the last thing in this world I wish to do in my blog. You wonder then what might have made me start with his name. Well he has been the subject of discussion for most news channels lately for having one James Otis trying to sell his memorabilia in an auction in New York. A campaign by bapu’s grandson Thushaar Gandhi to stop the auction went futile. His several requests to the Indian government to intervene to stop the auction fell in deaf man’s ears. The Indian government took all the efforts not to surprise any Indian or change his opinion on its potency. The Indian supreme court so righteously passed a judgment to stop an auction which was happening somewhere in New York. The news channels gorging with a huge appetite on this topic setting countdown for the auction throwing in hefty tag lines like “Indian heritage at the auction” and “Indian history at stake” was all in for the TRP’s. There was someone who was watching all this with a fervent silence and its not me I am mentioning here ;)
With such a lot of drama involved I was very keen to see the eventuality. The day of auction I switched on the news channel to see the outcome to realize that the liquor giant Vijay Mallya has got the highest bid of 1.8 million dollars to bring back the so called heritage home. I was all awe for this man. What a government couldn’t do, what a campaign by a whole lot of people couldn’t do, this man just pulled it off hands down and that too without making any noise about it. I understood later that he had a penchant for Indian history when the news channel read that he was the secret emptor at an auction that put Tippu sultan’s sword under the hammer few months earlier. Sword under the hammer, that sounds dramatic, he he.
Amidst the greedy multimillionaire’s our man definitely stands out. While others rake in money and keep on piling drawing a blank on the purpose of doing so Vijay Mallya is one who definitely understood the purpose of money and that is to live. And he lives and lives king size in style. His zeal to life sometimes makes me wonder that he is the only person on this planet born to live and to live the way he does. There might be a self-serving intention in that auction act but whatever he has done has got a fan in me no matter what.
If bapu was alive I guess he might have changed his opinion on liquor for it’s the liquor king and the contribution of liquor consumers in India that has brought back the Indian heritage home. What a way to give Indian heritage a face lift. Long live the king, long lives the heritage. Jai ho ;)
Reading this post I am very much tempted to tell a story about a King, to whom a Saint sent his disciple to learn the true meaning of life :) Nice post, he is a person who needs to be appreciated for what he has done, but unfortunately the cricketers‘ll soon steal his limelight :).
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