Its been five years you know, since you left here. Do they keep a count of time and years where you have gone? I won't know till I find out for myself, will I? A lot has happened in my own life since you left. Some you'd have loved to have witnessed, others not so pleasant, but nothing has happened that would have crushed you. I miss you much, but in a way I cant talk about or express. Almost, every week I stop at something and say to myself, 'Now what would thatha have had to say about that?'.
Around the world much has happened since you left. Oh! how you would have hated what is happening in Syria, Mali, and Egypt. The number of hours you would have sat at your radio and poured over The Hindu to know about the wars around the world. Fidel Castro withdrew from public life, Gaddafi and Hugo Chavez died, the EU is struggling, Obama became president for a second term, the Roman Catholic church and the Anglican Church got new leaders. I'd have loved to have chatted about all these with you.But maybe the dementia of your last few years would have meant not reading enough and not keeping in touch with the current news. Yeah...I'm sure you'd have been very vivid about WW II than Syria because your short term memory failed badly.
Something happened yesterday, five years after you left, almost to the day. About this you'd definitely have had something to say and i'd have loved to hear. Mrs. Margaret Thatcher the Iron Lady died yesterday. She was 87, and very ill for the last 10 years of her life. Parts of the world simply loved her, the Americans, the Russians, and the Indians too. But Europe hated her and so did more than half of the UK, the rest of UK adored her. People are still so divided in their opinions about her. The BBC, the various TV channels, and newspapers had reels to say about her and I listened to almost every one of them. Yet, if you were here you'd have told me something about her that all the newsmedia in the world has not. And I am sad Thatha that i cant hear you today.
