“I had my first brush with administration when I
was barely three days old, cradled in the arms of my mother. Sharadabai
Govindrao Pawar had a meeting to attend at the Pune Local Board, of which she
was a member, on 15 December 1940. Although she had delivered a baby boy
just three days earlier, she was not one to miss her call of duty.”
These three opening
sentences of the book sum up the entire life of the man. Born to a woman of
tremendous force and fortitude, he grew up in the hustle and bustle of a highly
charged peasant political family in an out-of-the-way village. Early
experiences of dealing with all sorts of people and exposure to ideological
crosscurrents drive the grown-up man at a very early age into active politics,
which becomes his absorbing destiny.
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