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News comes that Shri Modi has decided to forgive the young student who allegedly made abusive references to him.

There are of course two sorts of people who forgive – those who believe that it is always the “other” who is in the wrong, and those more thoughtful ones who know that they often need forgiveness themselves.

We like to think that Shri Modi with his unrelenting immersion in high ethical principles and self-critical habits of thought belongs to the latter category.

We are reminded of the folklore king who had three daughters and wished to relinquish power to go live with them by turns.

There was the question of how much of his estates and sundry assets to bequeath to which of the three.

So he called the eldest and asked her how much she loved him.

The next one topped that with exclaiming how the aged parent could even ask the question.

Delighted with the two answers, he called the youngest one: she said to him that she loved him “according to her bond”. (Shakespeare, King Lear).

Explaining, she loved him she meant as much as a daughter may ever love a........

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