“Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.” EpicurusSteaming hot idlis would cement the friendship of a lifetime, between a restaurateur, a doctor and an activist. Anant Srinivas Bhat, then the General Manager of the Kamat Hotels in Bengaluru, was asked by a friend, Dr Dharmapal, if he would bring freshly-cooked meals to a patient of his, who had no family in the city. The patient, it turned out, was a young Atal Behari Vajpayee, then an activist with the Jan Sangh, who was jailed in Bengaluru during the Emergency in 1975. Vajpayee was released from prison and returned to Delhi and the matter was forgotten. Twenty years later, Vajpayee returned to...
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