Writing Gaekwad’s book and reading his personality
Updated On: 02 August, 2024 07:04 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
Aunshuman Gaekwad’s biographer Aditya Bhushan provides an insight into the kind of personality his subject displayed while they worked on the 2023 book
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Aunshuman Gaekwad with Aditya Bhushan
When I started work on Aunshuman Gaekwad’s biography back in 2020, I would have never thought that in four years’ time, there will be a need to write his obituary. But in the spirit of what he always used to tell me, “Aditya, I am there or not there, you have to go on.” So, with a heavy heart, images of him in front of my eyes and his voice which is still reverberating in my ears, I pen this down.
The journey to bring out Aunshu Sir’s story was an amazing one which I will cherish forever. I still recall my first visit to Vadodara. As I stepped out of the airport, Aunshuman Gaekwad, the man himself was in the driver’s seat of his car. It wasn’t as though we had known each other for long, and he surely didn’t need to come to pick me up. But then, that was what his principles asked him to do. Over the course of next couple days, I was a guest in his hometown, and he showed me around the city, to places not limited to those that were relevant for the book. When I went to his house for lunch, I was treated like a family guest with everyone taking care of my comfort and what I ate. Before I left the city, he gave me a bag full of popular namkeens from the city for my wife. I was short of words at this hospitality.
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