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The leaders of every era should leave behind some architecture that represents the ethos of that era , like the Central Vista project
Prafull Goradia The Parliament House , where
I sat until April 2000 , made one feel welcome and important . It inspired me to participate in speech after speech . Our best speakers were in the Vajpayee Ministry and could not debate , only reply or wind up debates . It is the non-Ministers who had to do the debating and the routine speaking , plus asking questions . I attended every session day and generally sat until the House was adjourned for the next day .
In a different way , I loved my mother and she reciprocated as I was her only child . When she became 78 , I wished she would live another 70 years or more . But she had become old with a broken femur ; it was better for her to go . I let her go and , gracefully , did not shed a tear . Life is growth and progress , change is the inevitable law . The Parliament complex , in the year 2000 , was already getting old . The plaster , paint and what-not applied during the non-session time made it look elegant as do rouge , powder and make-up make a lady pretty . Nevertheless , ageing was inevitable .
There were many committee and
10 Legacy India | June 2021 standing committee meetings and , if the convener was not a VIP , we were allotted pokey little rooms on an upper floor . I wondered why , in the first place , such small rooms were built . Then I discovered that a junior officer vacated his room for the sake of the meeting ; there was no other space for us . We were then a total of 795 members . This was the number after a revision in the 1950s when the population of India was 40 crore
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