Hard to Believe

That SSR would have set himself ablaze if the coalition he led had lost the 1967 general elections as Burty David said yesterday at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute. I can't even imagine that he even said that. Why? Because Seewoosagur was an extraordinary leader and extraordinary leaders simply don't burn themselves down because there's a hump in the road. No, they don't. They persevere until they succeed. And they certainly don't attribute stuff their dad had little to do with to their father.

It also doesn't tally with his personality: he enjoyed life way too much to even think about taking his with a gallon of whatever. People who knew the Old Man better than me are also very skeptical that he would have said such a thing.