Happy birthday, Suryada!
This day my late father had also been born in 1923. So, this day is inextricably entwined with his hallowed memory and it now assumes added significance in the light of the fact that this very day, 68 summers ago, you had seen the light of life amidst the tumultuous restructuring of our motherland post-partition.
But you were lucky enough to have been blessed by your grandfather of venerable memory. You have seen him and he has seen you too and in this has been reinforced the bond of blood through the act of vision in a final benediction showered on you.
It is for you to carry on the legacy as each year brings you closer to the ideal of perfected patriotism which you so manifestly have been the exemplar of in your own way, however inconsequential to the larger picture of life it may have been but never quite insignificant so far as we are concerned who are inspired by your august presence in deliberations that conduce to the well-being of our motherland, especially, where it concerns the resurrection of our beloved Netaji in the memory of the nation.
Happy birthday once more, Suryada! May you be blessed with health and peace that you may in turn be the fount of happiness all around!
My pranam to you.
Sugata Bose
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