Pramod Mahajan : 1949 - 2006

Pramod Mahajan breathed his last at the Hinduja hospital at 4:10PM. After having battled for 12 days in an ICU and with multiple surgeries, the inevitable was waiting to happen. His death marks a serious blow for Indian politics and the BJP in particular. Having lost their Lakshman, the road to recovery seems that much more daunting. But today its not about politics and the BJP, its about a gifted person who rose from virtually nothing to scale dizzying heights only to fall to the bullets fired by his own brother. The nation has lost a talented politician who was the backbone of his party and was revered and hated by many in equal measure. I hope his family and his friends get over this loss but I also hope that it will be a moment when the nation stops and pays respect to a person who really did change how we looked at politicians and politics.