At Age-127, India's oldest voter has seen it all

JUGGAR (Shimla): Like Tiresias in TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, Bhadaru at 127 has seen it all. Fall of a mighty colonial power, rise of a democracy, a changed world order, falling values, rising temperatures.

But through the years he has not lost his commitment to the voting process. "I will vote this time too," he told TOI on Monday, reaffirming his faith in democracy. ``I have done it since 1952. Then it was Nehru," he recalled, going back in time. As he looked around, trying to bring back into his mind images from the past, he suddenly fixed his gaze on the present and said he hopes to see a day his village Juggar, 60 km from Shimla, will be connected by a motorable road. Read More................At 127, India's oldest voter has seen it all

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