Yogendra Yadav on his teacher Rajni Kothari

January 20, 2015 11:38

"Where did he teach you? I mean in school or college, or where?' The question came from my son, curious about this old gentleman we would meet at the gate of our housing complex. I had told him that I touched his feet because he was my teacher. His question was a natural follow-up.

"My mind wandered to my undergraduate days. I had found an untouched Hindi translation of Rajni Kothari's book, Politics in India, in the library of my college, Khalsa College, Sri Ganganagar.

"Despite its tough prose, made worse by a heavy Sanskritic translation, the book was a breath of fresh air. I didn't quite understand the complex argument. But somehow, the book taught me to think about politics in a radically new way. It also made me decide to study politics."

AAP's Yogendra Yadav on eminent political scientist, writer Rajni Kothari, who passed away yesterday. Read

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