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Baba Amte died today morning after a 6-month long illness, patiently borne.

Here is my tribute to this great person. It is long, but worth it.

http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1270727

Feedback welcome.

A small excerpt:

>>The turning point in Baba's life came one rainy evening, when he was
returning home. A huddled figure lay on the roadside. At first it
seemed like a bundle of rags. But then he noticed some movement. Baba
looked closer and recoiled instantly. Lying before him was a man in
the last stages of leprosy. The dying man had no fingers. Maggots
crawled over his naked body. Horrified by this sight, terrified of
infection, Baba ran home. But he could not run away from the
self-loathing which began to hound him. How could he have left a
lonely forsaken man to lie there in the rain? So he forced himself to
return and feed the man. He also put up a bamboo shed to protect him
against the rain. That man, Tulshiram, died in Baba's care and
irrevocably changed young Amte's life.<<

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With best wishes,

-Dr. Taher Kagalwala

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