The Consensus Builder

Every avatar I saw him in, Pranabda looked comfortable and in control. There was always an anecdote and a joke to enliven the atmosphere

and flip through innumerable photographs in my physical and digital albums, it comes to mind how much Pranabda was a part of my life. It would be presumptuous to claim that I too was part of his life, for his was a remarkably glorious one, so full and eventful that one wonders how one life could be so rich and varied. I saw him first as my father’s senior minister in the commerce ministry when I carried some