Recently, Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi began his journey into podcasts with an episode on Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath’s podcast, People by WTF. There was an emotional side to the conversation as well since PM Modi talked about some events of his life.
Kamath recently had to ask the prime minister whom he would prefer to call in order to share important events. During his speech, PM Modi narrated a story from earlier days of his life. This he said, he achieved the feeling of having raised the Indian flag at Lal Chowk Srinagar in a time natured by national tension let alone violence. He then made his first call to his mother after he had successfully completed the task in Jammu. “It was good for me it was a moment of happiness I suppose she must been worried.” Since then, he added, he hadn’t felt that way.
Kamath also shared his own experience saying that after his father’s death he had sorry for devoting much of his time on work. He questioned PM Modi if he feels the same at least after the death of his mother recently. PM Modi said that his life was quite an unorthodox one because he was away from home early and had very little contact with his family. “So, for example, there was never that tenderness between any one of us,” he agreed.
But he did remember one particular event from his mother’s one hundred and first birthday. He bowed to her before going to work and asked her if she had any counsel for him. Her response deeply moved him: While the other students wanted to bring about change through work with intelligence and living with purity. This BJP Prime Minister said it could, ‘If I had stayed with her, I would have learnt more of such things.” I miss her.”
He said he remembered many things about his mother, including the fact that she did not easily get sick and urged him to go back to work the soonest possible time whenever he visited. The series of the podcast highlighted a side of the PM Modi which the public geting a chance to see, his emotional side in addition to his work commitments.
