| Friends, Today, when Sri Surendra Bisht, Acting Coordinator of Lok Satta Initiative told me that he was coming to our house, little did I had that he were to have another surprise guest with me.
I have none of the credits to be honoured by the visit of this person, all on his own and hence, when he was there at the door, I was genuinely delighted. I have no inhibition in saying that I would not have got one-tenth of that delight if I had people like SRK or Dhoni were there (not that they are going to come anyway!). The real thing started now. Having read my name and having talked to me for a minute or so, he started talking in impeccable "Bihari", with our peculiar style of stretching words and syllables. When asked, I came to know that he can speak Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya and almost all variants of Hindi.
To go slightly deeper into his unfathomable persona, he saw a book on "Bagamati" river written by another genius of his kind, Dr Dinesh Kumar Mishra (Dr Mishra is a B Tech from IIT Kharagpur who has dedicated all his life to study and control of flood in North Bihar), and said- "Oh, so this the book by Dr Dinesh. I had heard a lot about him." I asked him if he would like to talk to Dr Mishra to which he readily agreed and when they talked, it was as if they were friends for years. There were many other smaller and bigger issues on which he talked, but I could easily realize that the person sitting in front of me was something very-very unusual and special. Amitabh Thakur, |
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