Adieu, Sushma Swaraj

Few politicians have made India celebrate them as much as Sushma Swaraj. Fewer still have been mourned like how we mourned her.

I have a vague memory of the day I got to know about Sushma Swaraj for the first time. It was one of those evenings when the entire family is free but nobody has any idea about what to do together as a family. The television, then a lovable idiot for Indians (Netflix was still years away) was switched on reluctantly and a local news channel (which still had some respect then) eventually formed the object of leisure…