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“Religious he was but bigot, he was not. Some of us in the family turned into Shirdi Saibaba devotees and he did not demur.”

Basappa Danappa Jatti

Simple man with a lofty office

“Visitors from Bijapur could count on his hospitality and receive roti and sabji and sometimes stay overnight with us. One frequent visitor would have none of the roti and halva. She would break an egg, swallow the contents, and top it off with a glass of milk from one of grandmother’s cows. That would be Indira Gandhi’s breakfast whenever she turned up in the mornings.”

Basappa Danappa Jatti

Simple man with a lofty office

“One phone call from anyone in his office could have got us admission in an elite school in Delhi. We were admitted instead in the Delhi Kannada School at Khan Market. Clearly, grandfather did not want us to pick up any notion that we belonged to the privileged class. Our fellow students here were mostly children of Kannadigas working in offices in Delhi.”

Basappa Danappa Jatti

Simple man with a lofty office

“Our grandparents applied one golden rule in raising us — that we live just as we would as members of a farmer’s household in our native Bijapur, and not as residents of the sprawling official residence of Vice-President of India.”

Basappa Danappa Jatti

Simple man with a lofty office

“We his grand-children were playing with toy guns, using jowar grains as ammunition. One grain hit the Vice- President near the eye. He told us sternly then how it was essential for him to avoid injuries to be able to carry out his various duties.”

Basappa Danappa Jatti

Simple man with a lofty office