Friday, June 3, 2011

Simplicity of Shastri

                           Simplicity of Shastri
Lal Bahadur Shastri was one of the prime minister of India. This incident shows simplicity of his life.
This incident happened when China declared war against India. That time, there was a serious shortage of food in country. People were fighting for a small piece of food . That time Shastri was thinking how can he help the country.
When he was in his house, his wife comes near him and shows one of his kurta. It was torn completely. His wife said out of existing 4 kurtas, this one is totally torn. The condition of remaining 3 kurtas are also same. Now, the situation is like Shastri is not having any kurta in good condition. So, Shastri's wife urged him to buy new kurta.
That time Shastri replied "Now, it is not right time for buying new kurta. People are struggling to have one meal also per day. Plese see whether the kurtas can be repaired ". Shastri wore the repaired kurtas thus he saved some money . He donated that to relief fund.

1 comment:

  1. Yes, he was the greatest/simplest person - unfortunately politics and all contrived against him and we lost the best and cleanest-slate prime minister we ever had, and will ever have/rgd/slr

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