Today, 30th November 2017 is the last working day of Tukubhai. The last day of his career as a bureaucrat and the beginning of his new phase of life. It's a somber day and a day to rejoice too.
The memory of he marrying into our family in 1985 is still so fresh. So many years has just flashed by before we realized. Reminiscing our various trip to remote districts of Karnataka, the birth of Niki and Tiku, their growing up with us, we experiencing our semi-parenthood, our learning of the ways of the Government, bureaucracy, it's oddities and it's benevolence.....It is all flashing by now like a time-lapse video today. It all happened so fast. Niki and Tiku have grown up and are on their own, and Tuku Bhai's role as a bureaucrat is on its last day but Leena continues to grow more beautiful and refuses to age.
Somethings don't change and Tukubhai didn't change.
He didn't forget his humble and difficult growing up. Instead of he, forgetting it as a bad dream and as a past to be buried, he lived it. Never ever he detached his present from identifying with his past. His past was his very own and he lived with it with the full view of the world. A life of simplicity, natural detachment from power and from the struggle for material gains; he continues to be a benchmark and a moral beacon for all of us. He exemplified how one's present power and position need not affect one's core self and your own set of moral and ethical values.
Tukubhai and Leena, you have made Baba and Maa and everyone of us proud. Sending you Godspeed from all of us.
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