Ajit Pawar, a man who has always kept his word

“Kasa ahe, Vinaya tai!” is how Ajit Pawar would start talking when asked any question. The literal translation is, “I will tell you how it is, Vinaya tai!” ‘Tai’, meaning sister, is a commonly used term of endearment and respect in Maharashtra. “Kasa ahe, Vinaya tai, we will have to take the Centre’s help if anything else has to be done. He walked out of his chamber in the State Secretariat after a Cabinet meeting, and I was standing right there. He would move through the State Secretariat with purposeful strides, rushing from one meeting to the next as his staff would brief him on the move.