On the occasion of Father’s Day 2022, Anand Mahindra shared a throwback picture sharing a special memory with his father Harish Mahindra on June 19.
In a tweet, he wrote, “As a kid, it was always special to be allowed to go to the airport to greet my father upon departure or return from business trips. On Father’s Day I think of him and I wish I could go to the airport again to welcome him.”
Earlier on June 4, Mahindra had also shared a photograph of his father’s application to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts from 1945.
Documents were handed over to Mahindra when he gave the class day address at the university. Documents which were essentially kept confidential for 75 years were declassified only last year.
In one post, he wrote, “When I was at the Fletcher School to give a class day address, he gave me copies of my father’s application to Fletcher in 1945. These documents are essentially confidential for 75 years and a wonderful coincidence From last year only, were unclassified!”
He further said that while India was still a British colony, he was proud to read his father’s audacious aspiration and bold statement.
“So proud to read my father’s audacious aspiration and bold statement while India was still a British colony. I had never spoken to him about those aspirations. My advice to youth: Be around your parents Talk to them more and know more about them during your stay,” he further wrote.
In a letter to the university, Harish Mahindra wrote, “As far as my professional purpose is concerned, I have chosen the Foreign Service as my country is in dire need of trained men in international affairs. India still has no one of its own. There is no foreign policy. After this war, if India achieves a state of domination or a state of complete independence, it will need the help of men trained in foreign affairs to see that it is friendly and friendly with other countries of the world. Establish financial relationships.
“Instead of the British running their foreign policy and spreading false and kind of propaganda that enables them to achieve their goals in India, I would like to set up an Indian Foreign Service in India and help Indian consulates across the world. Put the true India before other nations and show the benefits that India can accrue as a free and equal partner in the League of Nations,” he wrote.