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Ashok Lavasa, on Why He Won't Write About His Time as EC | Fmr Election Commissioner | Karan Thapar

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In an interview with Karan Thapar for The Wire, to mark the launch of his book ‘An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an Indian Generation’, Ashok Lavasa, who resigned as Election Commissioner in 2020 to become a Vice President of the Asian Development Bank, suggested he had resigned from the Commission because the bank offered him “a huge opportunity”.
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@sandeepc9335 3 жыл бұрын

What is really amazing is the calmness of Ashok Lavasa in handling such piercing questions on his beloved father

@NoGodButTheGod 3 жыл бұрын

Lasava will be remembered by someone who stood up!! Respect is earned by honesty and integrity!!

@aruncatarun 3 жыл бұрын

I respect every interviewee who has the guts to face karan in an interview. No water drinking. No running away

@askerman3 2 жыл бұрын

No "dosti bni rhay" also !!

@mehtabhussain5363 5 ай бұрын

Who is that polotical coward , you are talking about ..by the by i have seen one of the CM of Tamilnadu giving interview to Karan , which was very bold..😂😂

@jacobcheriyan 3 жыл бұрын

9 year old boy being sent by train and change three times during those days was so common and it was not unsafe then. Many have gone through similar situations many a time. Karan dwelling on this point for a substantial time shows he's from an affluent background. I can understand the language of Lavasa as most people of that generation had a heart and were not divided by caste and religion like how it is now.

@johnsoncherian9570 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely....at that age we used walk 4kmtrs up &4kmtrs down as we couldn't afford 10paise to go by bus. But the people were kind hearted used to know each and every one in the entire Panchayat or even in the Taluke by your house name or surname. That was the truth of those times but now you don't know evern your neighbors or even with in the folks ☺️

@suriyakumar925 3 жыл бұрын

You are right! Society was simple, caring and did not have the complexities that we see now! In those days, if a 9 year old was travelling alone, the fellow passenger would play the role of a guardian without anyone asking for it, enquire about him, extend a helping hand, even do whatever that he could to ensure that he gets on with his travel safely. In the bollywood, we have dozens of stories where a teen ager, travelled on his own, landed in Mumbai, picked threads and moved up the ladder! This is true in other walks of life also in those days.

@FareedAhmad07 3 жыл бұрын

Karan is the son of 1962 war hero and the then army cheif PN Thapar

@jacobcheriyan 3 жыл бұрын

@@FareedAhmad07, he must have had a great and comfortable childhood unlike most children in the country. Hence, such questions.

@sanjaygadhalay 3 жыл бұрын

You are right

@hussainshaikh7163 3 жыл бұрын

Karan sir this is the situation in the small towns trusting people without knowing them until recently . and hardly the wrong happens. it is normal.

@chhoti-si-baat 3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the composure shown by Mr. Lavasa in face of aggression

@brightstarlight11 3 жыл бұрын

My mom always told me stories about her childhood about people or strangers who were trustworthy. Neighbors who were more like family. People of different faiths celebrating festivals together..parents who were so strict that kids would fear to even speak their mind.. Times have changed..

@sumanvyas6761 3 жыл бұрын

Karan is the best interviewer . He brings out ironies so well

@samriddhachakraborty2382 3 жыл бұрын

Finally!!!! He's extremely perceptible to wry irony. Love karan.

@shadabhussaini2003 3 жыл бұрын

If @KaranThapar is master of quizzing and Interviewing, then Mr. Lavasa stands second to none in wonderfully dodging some of the questions. Will wait for Book of Mr. Ashok Lavasa by Mr. ASHOK LAVASA

@RVDas-jg9wp 3 жыл бұрын

SALUTE ASHOK LAVASA FOR HIS HONESTY AND 🙏🙏🙏 STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS .

@rlavasa 3 жыл бұрын

It seems Karan has not read the book thoroughly. He stuck to the only incidence of a father leaving his son with a total stranger to take care of his son without realizing that from Baroda to Bombay is 12 hour time in those days and this time is sufficient to know a person and built trust on some one. Naturally the response given by the gentleman was enough for Mr Lavasa to believe that his son would be surly in safe hand. There are many other episodes narrated in the novel which speaks about his unique character. The adverse in his life could not weaken his beliefs in humanitarian value and values inculcated in his children. I think he should read it once more with different bent of mind and his belief in humanity.He is unable and perhaps incapable to grasp the spirit of the book.

@manmeetkaur05 3 жыл бұрын

Mr Lavas, I admire your brutal honesty. I completely agree with your approach

@marinedrive9409 3 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful ending! 😀 look into the rear mirror for deciding ahead. Wonderful. So much literature sense 😀

@vrajagopal1199 3 жыл бұрын

People could be trusted. Many times I have enjoyed company of perfect strangers.

@suriyakumar925 3 жыл бұрын

In yester years, especially in villages, anyone can walk in to a house to be fed. If someone arrives at the village, there will be a flock of people enquiring about his purpose and facilitating his visit without the visitor asking for it. There were so much of trust among people!

@cauliflowerhead2735 3 жыл бұрын

Yes and it is the villages where instances of child abuse go unreported along with a whole host of other crimes. Ignorance is bliss for them.

@yogitasharma9120 3 жыл бұрын

@@cauliflowerhead2735 👍

@RichardGKhan 3 жыл бұрын

Mr Lavasa is right about India which was trustworthy, even strangers. Perhaps Mr Thapar hasn't had similar occasion but I have seen such things in my growing up years. Good human beings are there even today. Mr Lavasa the father might have explained his predicament to the Stranger.. who responded admirably.

@manikantsingh4017 3 жыл бұрын

Mr Thaper at that time people were not so crooked as they are today. One people had trust on other, even I travel from Gauhati to Patna when I was in my 5th standard. I think you are over emphasizing a simple fact of that time of probably in 60s.

@johnsoncherian9570 3 жыл бұрын

Lavasa has been a great man who has taken the courage to challenge the most Feku leader of the universe Chor Chockidar. Respect him and allow him to speak his heart out pls 🙏

@sanjaygadhalay 3 жыл бұрын

Obviously his father's reference. Has been primary too in lavasa being a principled person in his service. ..Kudos

@navintiwari112 3 жыл бұрын

Sir are you an Anglo-Indian or a rice bag convert?? Just asking, no offence.

@ytadltspv 3 жыл бұрын

@@navintiwari112 mr, r u still heavily drugged or recovering after cremating someone from ur house after standing in lines for oxygen that u never got or still tired after walking k's of kms to ur house and starvin now or just a stupid blind bhakt ??atleast realize that as a pandit, u oppressed crores of humans on madeup concepts - so if they converted for rice or stones, it doesnt matter. u only took, gave nothing but misery. go read ur own story

@navintiwari112 3 жыл бұрын

@@ytadltspv @Sundar v oh man I have just returned from a helluluiah prayer session where I was cured for Cancer, TB, AIDS and Covid all at once by the dabadibi chants of a father 😂😂 wanna see the video, here's the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ariif8-GutKwqZ8.html 1) Want to see who created the present caste lines we have, look no further than your father- the Britishers... A simple Google search would have given you the answer but alas you have surrendered all your rationality to the dabadibi cult...let me share a few links with you: www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48619734 theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/did-the-british-invent-caste-in-india-yes-at-least-how-we-see-it-now/245615/ www.hindustantimes.com/india/caste-system-created-by-british/story-0V783QPHGi5XzBB4yjdWuM.html 2) Now, to know what I have given to the world just read the Wikipedia page of Ancient India's contributions to the world... No further reading would be required for that..but I doubt you would do even that 😂 3) As far as made up concepts go, did you mean the following ones: 😂 - creation of the whole universe in 7 days and that too with precise itinerary around 4000 years before birth of Christ - the Adam and Eve story - story of Jesus's birth- a virgin birth - story of Jesus's resurrection - stories justifying slavery 4) read about Goa inquisitions and Atlantic slave trade to educate yourself about Christianity and it's virtues...It was only in the 19th century that the Church declared slavery as something bad..even then the segregation and apartheit remained in practice till the very end of 20th century. www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/history/slavery_1.shtml time.com/5171819/christianity-slavery-book-excerpt/

@navintiwari112 3 жыл бұрын

@@ytadltspv did you go through the links Sundar??? Or have you surrendered all your rationality to the dabadibi cult??? Hoping to hear from you ❣️

@sujatasinha1370 3 жыл бұрын

Despite KT rude behaviour I have developed great respect for Mr. Lavasa. The interviewer seems incapable of understanding a person of depth like Mr. Lavasa.

@giantaneja8434 3 жыл бұрын

Truth.

@deichungbedaime7467 3 жыл бұрын

That's the beauty of life, trust involves without showing proof which shows golden age..... I like the author and his father

@Drkp23 3 жыл бұрын

People like his father who is protagonist in this book is not uncommon… we do find quite a few in our lives who are eccentric and unorthodox

@shahrookherani870 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant interview, by a unique personality. Will definitely read his book.

@rekhakumar1441 3 жыл бұрын

There is lot of difference then and now, the year 1966, those day people did trust one another.

@reet9230 3 жыл бұрын

Ashok is absolutely correct; we are now living in a different society. There are some countries with very minimum crimes. I was given this talk by my father to let my children explore. In my part of the world, children don’t go missing every day. The lesson this man received in his life, is to judge people.

@manishsinha7827 3 жыл бұрын

One of the most candid person you interviewed Karan.

@midraju3771 3 жыл бұрын

In those days people haven't yet evolved to be untrustworthy as they are now.

@sujatasinha1370 3 жыл бұрын

Karan Thapar you come from a bourgeois class so you find it strange how Mr Lavasa's father trusted an unknown person with his son. In those times trust was common and we too have also grown up like that.

@niknayak 3 жыл бұрын

I sincerely hope that Karan was playing devils advocate here because otherwise he comes across very poorly. Mr Lavasa on the other hand (and indeed his father) are clearly made from a different fabric. Unfortunately they might be seen differently today. To me ... these are real men.

@raunaknigam6213 3 жыл бұрын

immensely interesting and captivating interview. what a gem of an interview it is. grilling from the very beginning till the very end without both the gentlemen getting irritated even by a bit. Something which our top political leaders should learn from this especially the ones in power now.

@abdulmajeedabid2778 3 жыл бұрын

1:- Emotions recollected in tranquility 2:- Spontaneous overflow of imagination and feelings (William Wordsworth)

@jacobcv1972 3 жыл бұрын

Ashok Lavasa, what deep and authentic perspectives! It reveals a certain courage and conviction that can only come from still waters that run deep! The deliberation in trust was actually so real, and also very typical of those times. Mr. Lavasa's father is a representative of so many deep men who lived their life with conviction, warts and all, and that is what made the India of those days. Now we have gone so soft, especially the middle class.

@Robbie_S 3 жыл бұрын

Karan you sound like you grew up in a utopian Tata Ambani family back in the '60s or '50s and so shocked to hear this. This was every Fathers in poor India and there were no middle class back then. I completely resonate with Mr. Lavasa and I'm sure most of us who had Father's born in the '50s would share the same story as Lavasa faced during his child hood. It made my Father a Man of the world who could deal with any situations. This is where the Seriousness comes in all the Fathers and Children no matter what obeyed and listened to every orders as command.

@kashyap1kumar12 3 жыл бұрын

Though I wd have loved a book about his times as an EC. Still it's a good one. Though what really comes out of the interview, 'Karan has no touch with lower middle class of 60s-90s'. Lol. What Ashok's father was, is a typical dad from Rural India pre-liberalisation. What was so hard to believe.

@jawadhfz 3 жыл бұрын

His father reminds me of my uncle, a kindred spirit.

@sujatasinha1370 3 жыл бұрын

Trust is intuitive and not blind. So many children have grown up in the laps and company of strangers. It was commonplace to send children in train by just asking a co passenger to take care of the child. Those times were good. Even today i continue to believe in the goodness of people and life is based on trust.

@jacinthafernandes2562 3 жыл бұрын

Mr.Lavasa is right.Olden days people used to trust each other.That is real Indian people

@mrnandyonthego 3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the fact that Mr. Lavasa chose to write about his father, but Mr. Lavasa saying that the book will provide values to current generation is questionable.

@ytadltspv 3 жыл бұрын

one value is - the current gen will turn around, take a good look at their respective fathers and start thinking what sort of parents they want to become - happens in every family , every generation - book or no book (just experience)

@prashant1954 3 жыл бұрын

This interview is a telling example of the characters of the interviewer and the interviewee .Karan Thapar believes everybody is bad and all his interviews reflect his untrustworthy nature Perhaps that is why he grills people so aggressively ,trying to shove his views down others throat, unless of course he gets kicked back by someone like Late J. Jaylalitaji. In 1966,as a student of 5th standard and aged 9years,I myself travelled all the way from Ujjain in M.P to Rampur in UP, changing Stations at Nagda,Delhi and Moradabad.My cousin with whom I was spending my Christmas vacation in Ujjain, did not have time to escort me back to my home.This covered a distance of more than 1075km. Being trustful and confident are individual traits.

@davidkrupadanam1179 3 жыл бұрын

1950s and 1960s were good old times. I travelled to Hyderabad alone at age of 9 from my village 200 km away

@CAPradeepRajput 3 жыл бұрын

Hats off to the calm approach of Mr Lavasa and the way he replied to the brutal questions of Karan (The Genius)…..

@johnsoncherian9570 3 жыл бұрын

Mr Karan with humble heart, pls allow him to speak his heart. Pls don't shoot into the gun 🙏

@deepika2644 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly... He's asking questions like a teenager

@sumanverma6274 3 жыл бұрын

Lavasa and Senior Lavasa are real men.. Those who trust others easily are simple and honest guys.

@RajivKumar-tw3yo 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating to find trust as a hot topic of discussion...Mr. Thapar seems to assume a lot about human motive and societal characteristics across the world...

@anbee8127 3 жыл бұрын

He's simply forgotten that the world has changed too much. Back in the day, people did trust strangers.

@chakra0809 3 жыл бұрын

Karan you seems to be scared of human being . I completely agree with Mr. Lavasa you need to have to more reason to not trust but you don't need many reasons to Trust

@298Shahbaz 3 жыл бұрын

Karan as always you have done a marvelous job. Great!!! Keep up the great work. Mr. Lavasa also was a great interviewee. Great interview. Karan Thapar you must have a twitter, Facebook and KZfaq channel

@ashwanibakshi1020 3 жыл бұрын

Common men still trust each other. That is sometime their compulsion too. Trust deficit was and is the problem of rich and elite.

@nandu2002002 3 жыл бұрын

After 30 mins of interview..😂😂😂😂😂 karan give me answer.... Lavasa bus hogaya..🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗.. Hats off for your service to the country lavasa sir...🙏🙏

@kishorechowdhury8147 3 жыл бұрын

This is shot. You are asking the same question too many times. Incidentally my father about that time dropped me at Howrah to travel to Sindri which involved train journey of 6 hours followed by taxi ride of one hour. I was 14

@snehasisjena8714 3 жыл бұрын

I'm watching this interview after the Pegasus snoopgate exposé which also includes Mr. Lavasa's phone number. Perhaps, now it's clear as day as to why he was unwilling to answer the questions about his tenure.

@amitabuch 3 жыл бұрын

I can relate this with my father's character...

@kanchanshinghal2860 3 жыл бұрын

Very good interview. 👍

@shashijain5084 3 жыл бұрын

The tie is back !!! Good !!!😊 !!! Suits Mr Thapar !!!

@johnsoncherian9570 3 жыл бұрын

Bravo Lavasa sir. One has to be true to his heart. I salute you Mr.Lavasa

@Rabidmonkey73 3 жыл бұрын

I don't really know what the point of this interview was. Karan wasted so much time on one specific incident at the train station, and regarding Lavasa's stint as EC, it's not a matter of his personal beliefs, career aspirations or anything else. It is about the right of the people of India to know if and how our CONSTITUTIONAL institutions are being undermined by the present Govt and the party that runs it. Frankly, in absence of some clarity there I find the rest of the interview with this man quite pointless and of limited public interest. Based on media reports he seemed to have shown some spine, but now, whether by carrot or stick, that spine has been excised.

@johnsoncherian9570 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely right 👍

@rnmishra7001 3 жыл бұрын

It' is carot. Vary costly one. Perhaps organic. He had time left in EC . He left EC & joined ADB.

@dalligurunathreddy5868 3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you sir even my father sent me by a unknown person in a train !! FAITH and TRUST thus we became more STRONG Beauty and Duty 🙏🏻 I am fm RIMS Blore

@kalyansingh5931 2 жыл бұрын

Long live the Georgian spirit!

@bidhandas7139 3 жыл бұрын

dear reporter I think you don't have any idea about that time socity..I was also be alone to go schools in that age..my younger brother even at the age of 7 used to go schools alone by crossing busyest vehicle road..

@vinodpant9334 3 жыл бұрын

Thapar is the son of an Army Chief if Army Staff. Lavasa’s father was an ordinary Army soldier. For Thapar to compare his school experience with an ordinary Indian is ludicrous. .

@anjanbarman5128 3 жыл бұрын

Even then those stories are bizzare...think objectively

@anilnarang4243 3 жыл бұрын

Mr Karan Thapar, you questions are looking at the life of a person who probably was born close to 1900 and the life they went through, when people relied on each other by faith and the way they came out of grief by putting it on God. I have seen all that in my parents. I saw a man giving my father Rupees 18000, for safe keeping with no receipt or proof of giving that much money in 1950’s. I had heard my father saying many times “Iss mein bhee. Quiche bhalai hai”. That was the time when people depended on even strangers. Children while playing in their friends houses without the knowledge of their parents may sleep in the afternoon. The crime was much lesser than the modern days. Mr Lavasa’s interview reminds me of that golden era when telling a lie was considered a crime and degrading in your own eyes, children were responsibility of whole neighbourhood.

@jayp2828 3 жыл бұрын

Karan, you are completely wrong about your perception, it's a familiar story in those days. I can relate to my own life

@suriyakumar925 3 жыл бұрын

As usual Karan was superb in asking those questions to Mr. Lavasa about his resignation and Mr. Lavasa had beautifully parried them and still answered them without actually answering. The play was really enjoyable!

@TheDiaryOfAFailure7 3 жыл бұрын

The Book has a deep meaning,i think, may be an indication/path to follow for Mr Lavasa’s Progeny

@vijurao8009 3 жыл бұрын

The conviction involved it to look at a silver lining when there is nothing around but dark cloud. Right Karan is saying what he wants to say because that is his conviction.

@angelomendonza1869 3 жыл бұрын

Karan, you sometimes get stuck on one point instead of moving on. You can bring out different perspectives, but restrain yourself from insisting that your perspective is the right one. We have become so cynical that we tend to forget that there is still goodness left in the world. There is a cost, not only to oneself but also to one's loved ones, to abiding by one's principles. Gandhi's life, Mandela's life are good examples

@narayannamputhiri6724 3 жыл бұрын

That's true 👍 I also feel like that some times

@mohankrishnasundarrajaiyer7197 3 жыл бұрын

THE BOOK SHOULD HAVE BEEN TITLED AS LAVASA STORY OF EXTRA ORDINARY MAN.

@anwarmohammad5900 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know why but i am enjoying this interview, lovely :) When men in general are honest they look like children!!!

@abhijitmishra5243 3 жыл бұрын

I totally understand what mr lavasa is trying to portray in his book regarding his father.. He is trying to say that his father was in a way, an orthodox person but yet at the same time was a person having integrity, of strong character which had some principles in his life! I think this book is based on this theme! Yes, it's absolutely right people at that time thought differently than nowadays, but it was simply because the society was quite different at that time from this period, and society definitely impacts on an individual's thinking! Also, there's always positive and negative aspects to everything.. So, if one says that everything about that generation was better than the present one, that's also totally false and comes out of prejudice..

@shadiap 3 жыл бұрын

This was a good interview but didn’t have what everyone wanted to hear 😀

@22singhisking 3 жыл бұрын

Karan your interviews are outstanding....but would appreciate if you would let the interviewee be given enough time to answer so the train of thought is not lost...

@bhupeshbharde2005 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent is d only word I can say for this interview

@vrajagopal1199 3 жыл бұрын

I have had such trusting companions at that age.

@janakirajan6141 3 жыл бұрын

Superb!! Literature is emotions recollected with tranquility! Bravo Lavasa!

@monojdas-gupta5918 3 жыл бұрын

Karan's angst is the manifestation of the age we live in. He is right to be worried, because worrisome things happen all the time around us.

@sanjaygadhalay 3 жыл бұрын

Modi hai to mumkin hai !!

@jatinderchawla1243 3 жыл бұрын

Well I am 70 yrs.of age and I think in those days one thing was for sure probably bad may not happen to a child moving alone. Even I used to go to school 1.5 km away alone on foot and was never scared.

@mukarramkhan4741 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting to know, how India was in late 60s.

@shiveshtripathi4298 3 жыл бұрын

From 32:24, I'm reminded of the Yes Minister Show and specifically and especially Sir Humphrey Appleby. Classic Obfuscation.

@arunsakalle 3 жыл бұрын

.....LAVASA.... LAVA... SAA.... & SO COOL...?? -----you're expected to speak as... LAVA.... SAA....... always..!!! 🙏🙏

@narayannamputhiri6724 3 жыл бұрын

His father was having trust in God. He was really a great man Karan.

@amitabuch 3 жыл бұрын

Karan, he was what he was not what you want him to be

@satishchugh1131 3 жыл бұрын

Trust was the basis of a healthy society of sixties . I agree with mr ashok lavasa

@chakra0809 3 жыл бұрын

Karan world has many people like his father and we need to have many more so now ....u seems to be horribly scared of this world..

@cauliflowerhead2735 3 жыл бұрын

Mr.Lavasa mistakes obstinacy for strength of character. His dad kept reposing his faith in humanity constantly when it came to strangers and showed little compassion towards his own wife or son by his own admission. What irony!

@ashokajohnrealty 3 жыл бұрын

it is today's generation that is worried. I was a eight year old child walking to school crossing a highway and a railway crossing alone!! This was normal in the 1970s. Today's world is full of paradoxes. There is technology and development but to enjoy that one has to follow safety and keep worrying about safety every hour.

@koteshwardobhal5265 3 жыл бұрын

This interview reminded me of a book ,,STRANGE MEN STRANGE PLACES. Despite I have no disrespect for Mr Lavaca, father.

@pratik7227 3 жыл бұрын

"brutal, that was brutal" : This interview is going to be another character in Karan's next book with a comical twist.

@TanayGurjar 3 жыл бұрын

Modi could learn a thing or two from Mr Lavasa on how to handle Karan Thapar

@neviln7996 Жыл бұрын

The old days were like that. We can trust most of the people. I can understand his father.

@dsrao7288 3 жыл бұрын

This is a good human being who felt deeply about his father. We should not judge his perspective from any other. Every father is a hero for his son.

@amitabuch 3 жыл бұрын

Well said- A character in search of an author 👍

@shazmatica 3 жыл бұрын

"Have you got a diary?" I'm dead

@diva7892 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely interviewee .... With the innate grace of the liberal arts!!! .... Hard to think of mr.lavassa as a bureaucrat!

@vprakash2433 3 жыл бұрын

Mr Lavasa comes out as a mature Pierson. Karan only interested in getting some thing against Modi . Mr Lavasa is not an activist like you Karan. What about your principles Karan.

@jioalternatephone3247 3 жыл бұрын

Very good and thought provoking interview.

@ralphrau 3 жыл бұрын

28:30 Did PM Modi violate the code of conduct in 2019 elections and should he have faced the consequences. Why did you resign though you could have become EC. Was it the revenge of Modi opening up tax cases against your family ?

@kishorechowdhury8147 3 жыл бұрын

And Karan it was common those days . I don't care at what age you began travelling alone. You were too pampered.

@agudam 3 жыл бұрын

My mother is a trusting and perceptive person but not gullible and she's had an uneventful life with loads of friends. It is possible to be all of that, Karan.

@dhruvbhargava1445 3 жыл бұрын

We had trust in people around us. I travelled alone to place at the age of nine

@atiru51 10 ай бұрын

I must be nine-ten. I was returning from my hostel with a classmate of mine and his father. They were from my village. So my father thought I could come to my village with them. But on the way the classmate's father decided they had to go to their home in the town. So, they dropped me on the road which was some 10 km from my village. Must be around 3-4 pm. I only had Rs 2-3 in my pocket. Phones were not available like they are today. And with just Rs 2-3 I did not have enough to pay for any vehicle I would have taken. So what do I do? I started walking, with the jhola I was carrying on my shoulder. I found some 'tangas' going towards my village. But they would not offer a ride in that sum. I kept walking. Strangely sans any ill feeling against the man. When I reached home it was around 7-7.30. This interview reminded me of that incident. My father knew the man. We were from the same village. Yet he dropped me in the middle of nowhere. Who do you trust? A complete stranger or a known villager? This question will always remain there.

@ASHISHKUMAR-gw8oe 2 жыл бұрын

What a man mr lavasa ,first time I see lavasa in video how calm he is to face such question so great karan u r great

@virenpsingh 3 жыл бұрын

It is a masterful depiction of a unique life lived by the author's father. Human mind is, more often than not, a bagful of apparent ironies, paradox and contradictions. A unpretentious person does not live a 'codified and bookish' life. All great lives are full of moral 'misdemeanors'. Trouble starts when you get into the seat of a judge (like Karan) for pandering to audience banal needs. A life lived as per a standard code of conduct is a life lived artificially and forcefully. When you live a life like a river, you have stones, muck and what not in the underbelly. That's authentic life. Many of us, maybe including our erudite anchor, may not appreciate it if you have lived a highly regimented, chaperoned and guided life. Probably, Karan was sounding ''mean and disagreeable'' by design. Compliments Mr. Lavasa. Great Job!!!

@gladsonmathew3385 3 жыл бұрын

His father was an ordinary person with an extraordinary faith and trust and confidence in life. He could judge a stranger even well enough to put charge him on his nine year old son while travelling by just and sheer conviction or intuition of him. In our modern life situation we see even so called great dignified persons act more adversely than what we call crooks or looters. On this Mr. Thappar was completely mistaken. Great things happen by sheer trust and faith and it is because of inevitable and unavoidable plight of life which is not out of ignorance or irresponsibility!!!

@giantaneja8434 3 жыл бұрын

The so called stranger who took Ashok had travelled with him for 12 hrs fm Baroda to Bombay,was it not sufficient to understand and build trust?.I feel KT got pre conceived idia to exploit this issue and wasted time.