On the 75th birthday of Jayaprakash Narayan, streams of people, some of them from states as far away as Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, came to his house at Kadam Kuan, Patna to offer felicitations. Hobbling along the corridors, he received them all, accepting their greetings with folded hands. His simplicity and humility completely masked […]

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