Immortality of an ideology

Goa lost a dear son on the evening of 17th March 2019. The electronic, print & social media are bursting with messages and memories of Mr. Parrikar. He was indeed a visionary man, hard working and an astute statesman.
As I follow images & video feeds of people of Goa gathering to pay homage to this great man, A lot of thoughts flood my mind as well. My personal experiences, limited public & private interactions with him and how Goa changed around me while he was at the helm.
Though I feel like sharing those with you all, I begin feel as if they are just stories. Just like snippets from Ramayana or Mahabharata. But I want to remember the real crux of the series of stories that people will be narrating today or in the years to come. In my mind, every departed should should be immortalised through their ideology.
Days will pass and time will play it's part. But every person who remembers their bhai, Manohar, Sir, Parrikar today should make it a point to immortalise his ideology. And I don't say this only for Mr. Parrikar's followers. Humans will come and go. There is a reason they are called mortals. But what stays behind is values, beliefs, ideologies. They need to be preserved & immortalised; and sometimes even changed with time!

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