Why Morarji Desai is a Mentor to Slum Kids


Whenever Morarji Desai calls his younger brother working at a major IT firm, the latter’s colleagues let out a hearty laugh. After all, it’s not often you hear Vajpayee speaking to Morarji Desai.

“It is a running joke among all our friends whenever our brothers talk to each other,” says 33-year-old social worker Morarji Desai. His younger brother is named Vajpayee and the names of two of his elder brothers are Gopalkrishna Gokhale and Balagangadhar Tilak.

“My father, a retired policeman, wanted his sons to be like leaders and named his four sons after them,” Desai says. A sociology graduate from Loyola college, Desai has been working for the welfare of children, especially from the city slums.

For the past six years, he has also adopted and is managing the Royapettah Police Boys and Girls Club, which functions from the Rotary Nagar slum. Institutionalised in 1956 and becoming defunct shortly after, it was revived again in 2003................Read more

 

Source: The New Indian Express


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