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'Kobad's interest never waned'
Updated On: 24 September, 2009 07:33 AM IST | | Alisha Coelho
A friend of Ghandy arrested on Sunday for 'waging war against the nation' says he was pushed to the point of no return
A friend of Ghandy arrested on Sunday for 'waging war against the nation' says he was pushed to the point of no return
It was just a few years ago, that Mumbai-based human rights advocate P A Sebastian had sat down with a couple, 'old friends' for chai at Resham Bhavan in Churchgate.
"They were happy doing what they were doing. I never got the feeling that they regretted taking the road less travelled," said Sebastian.
The friends were the Ghandys, Kobad and his late wife Anuradha. Kobad hit the headlines yesterday after he was arrested in New Delhi on Sunday.
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Sebastian, one of the founding members of the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights in 1977, a human rights group, remembers a different Kobad, though one, he admits was, 'pushed to the point of no return'.
"He was very involved with intellectual discussions, debates and work among the poor in slums.
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