Weekly Musings : Week 37 Our Freedom At Midnight

 

Weekly Musings : Week 37 Our Freedom At Midnight

15^th August was the 74^th Independence day celebration for India and it was no less a freedom for Manas as well as his last chemo injection of Cytrabin was given on 15^th August. He was very happy and relieved and celebrated by speaking to his friends. Evening he played a few shots, somehow balancing himself. On 15^th August the cricket legends MS Dhoni and his buddy Suresh Raina announced their retirement. I was telling Manas that one MS retires and paves way for the other MS (Manas Shalini) and another left handed batsmen retires and he can fill those shoes. It was an emotional feeling like having scaled the peak after a long and arduous trek. The maintenance phase starts now and the same care and discipline needs to be followed, pretty much like our freedom, it was tough to achieve and require equal effort to maintain the same.