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May 1999- Dec 2001 : My Solemn years before the Blog

I would often pass by Prof Abdul Kalam in the evenings of Sri Fort complex. He would take his evening walk and not many people recognized him, One day I also happened to see him at Delhi airport and he was next to me in the Urinal like any ordinary man be. A simple man with simple taste. I enjoyed reading his autobiography. I liked his statement about Americans “Americans meet their problem head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them “How true and valid!! No artist ever sakes anything that is good or what is close to his heart. He only sale his garbage to the public. Is this quote by Picasso? I am not sure. This was also the year I met Vincent Van Gogh. I had just completed book on Michael Angelo (Agony and Ecstasy by Irving Stone) and was in love with this man. Love and adulation is indeed blind – so much so – that I refuse to even read about Leonardo De Vinci – another prolific personality contemporary to Michael Angelo – lest that my awe for him might diminish.