In one of his final public appearances – in January, an ailing Manohar Parrikar may have looked frail but the energy in his words was hardly lacking.
He may be gone but the memories of a much-loved political leader that Manohar Parrikar was will remain deeply etched in the memory of an entire country.
Parrikar died on Sunday after suffering from a prolonged pancreatic ailment. He was 63.
The former defence minister and four-time Goa CM had been battling ill-health since February of 2018 and had received treatment in the US, Mumbai and Goa. He had only made the occasional public appearance in the last few months and it is one of these occasional appearances, in January, that he had asked, ‘How’s the josh?’
