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It has been a while since I wrote something in our dear blog – manor of the ardent [By the way, did you notice reversing of 'mota' results in 'ATOM'? Wow, man..]. “Oh, you wrote something?” – I can feel the rising of your eye-brows. Well, I did not write quite a lot. But actually I wanted to. Loads of it. Inspired by few people here, I wanted to write something motivational and patriotic. Inspired by few others, I wanted to write about Life. Inspired by some, I wanted to write mysterious yet meaningful posts. Inspired by the rest, I wanted to be the fun-centre with hilarious posts. But there is this saying, – “..thus the Lord said to the gathering, ‘Behold my people, Truth shalt always suck with thy Boopalan’..“. Yes, it went on to suck from then.
With all that inspiration, I sat to think, think, and think on what to write, staring at my laptop. A deep thinking. A silent, in-depth thinking. A peaceful thinking that can only be attained in a meditative state. Guess what, Yes, Before my laptop reached hibernation state, I reached it. To be precise, I slept. Few new assignments did not let me to take a slumber in office, and that took its toll on my mid-night blogging, mates! Father, forgive my Project Lead, for he did not know what he was doing! [to our blog and me, by assigning tasks!]
(No, I did not watch the Passion of the Christ movie this evening!) Today, right now, I decided to write something. The result of what, is you suffering from reading the above paragraphs. Ok, I stop all my blabberings right here, and try to make some sense in the below paragraphs. [if I don't,.. forget it, it is our fate!]
When I was reading about Che Guevara, a revolutionary whom I admire the most after me [ahem!..], I wondered if he ever visited India in his life. I wanted to know what his opinion was about India. [Good that he is not alive. Otherwise, the world cannot sustain two revolutionaries, visionaries and titans. Do you still ask who the other one is?]
But interestingly, after few searches, I came to know that he visited India. An article in the Finance Express cited the following:
“I should quote what he [che] wrote after visiting India in the same year of the triumph of the Revolution, 1959: “Nehru welcomed us with the friendly familiarity of a patriarchal grandfather, but with noble interest for the concerns and struggles of the Cuban people and made recommendations of extraordinary value, while showing samples of an unconditional affection towards our cause“.” – in an article titled ‘Che, an icon and friend of India‘ written by a-person-i-don’t-want-to-know.
Nehru? Welcomed? Ok, then further searches for information yielded me this below piece from a book – ‘Che Guevara’ written by some Jon Lee Anderson.
Ahem.. Ah, Mr. Comandante, how pleased I am, that you have liked India!
~ BJ ~
Book-result: From Google Books preview.
Che Image: From Wikipedia.
Some one, Please ask Sanket to post his version soon
And shafat mate is also there.
Good info, boo. And i must say that i love your writing style.
Good to hear that Che visited our country.
Most of the people (Except USA) likes Ernesto… Its good to know that Ernesto like India… A very nice article… and i agreed that this kind of article are coming from after a deep thinking…
Yes, I agree..
He was always a nightmare to US.
Once he visited US, and when the media had an interview with Che, He publicly warned (roared!) US and US president in its own soil [A Lion in a bear's den!]
Btw, Do not forget to notice the sarcasm he had hidden on the passage, about Nehru and India.
Che is, as far as I know , the most revered man in the modern history.
Undoubtedly.
Btw, why he asked about China to Nehru – a leader who had died with a great grief in heart over the loss of war with it..!
that was after the sino-china war man…. before that – it was all “Hindi Chini bhai bhai” shit.
Waise I agree with Nafs, no comments on Nehru
I agree. But he visited at a time, when sino-indian relationships started to get worse
i dont want to comment anything about Nehru… Che already did..
Hmm! Indeed Che is a character who will be remembered, followed, admired and adored for a long long time…but it hurt somewhere…his statement about India and him being more than appropriately dressed for the party in India…Cuba was…and still is much under developed…I guess…didn’t seem appropriate from his mouth!
Hmmm.. No need to be hurt.. Deepak..
In fact, I believe the whole incident description to be an urban legend..
It is only told by Jon Lee anderson the author, Chances are, it is to add up some up spicy components to entertain the reader..
Though felt bad about his statements and the sarcascm, surprised to know he visited India once.
Though his statements might be hurting it was complete truth he was speaking given the image and situation of our country at that time.
Thnx to boo for sharing this..
We better befriend CUBA down the lane to empower the US in the future !!!!
Nice write up.. couldnt stop laughing at some sentences. especially in the self-flattery ones
He..he..
Thanks Anto.. This comment of yours surely touched bottom of my heart..!!!!!!
[and went even deep down, and I forcibly stopped it, before it could get naughty...
]
hehehehe….thank god you stopped….;-)