A Letter to Mr. Amitabh Bachchan

Respected Sir,
I am not addressing you as ‘Mr. Bachchan’ or even ‘Dear Sir’ or in any in other manner but specifically ‘Respected Sir’ because we are alumni and you were my senior in college. I will comment on your post later but first please permit me to say that I went to Kirori Mal College to graduate in English (Hons) between 1986 and 1989. I really missed your visit to the College in 1986 just by a few days before I got admitted there. But I saw your comments in the Visitor’s Register kept in the college common room above the canteen. I stayed in Room No. 66 of the college hostel, the corner room on the first floor, in which you probably also stayed. Daulat Ram, or Dolly as everyone addressed that hostel mess staffer, kept narrating your stories which have become myths in the hostel. All the freshers were fed with stories — like how you would scale the hostel boundary wall to see night show of films, how shy you were, how rarely you mixed with the inmates, etc. It was Dolly who had informed us that you had stayed in Room No. 66. And I felt so proud. I bragged about it to my parents and brothers, sister and friends. Then we were told that you asked for Dolly and hugged him when you visited the hostel in the summer of 1986. (Unfortunately, Dolly passed away a few years back.) Anyways, I don’t know how true the stories related to you are, but I certainly saw a photograph in a hostel album in which you are standing in the back row of the lawn tennis team members. Sir, the photo, if I remember correctly, was of 1958-1959. At the moment, I am at Bhopal, your Sasural. I have met your mother-in-law at Ansals a couple of times and interviewed her. Like when Abhishek had broken the news of his marriage in a flight from London. Both Abhishek and his Nani address each other as ‘Darling’. Interestingly, your mother-in-law’s minder’s name is ‘Vijay’, a name which you had kept in several of your superhit films. And my pet naमी is Bunty, a name associated with Abhishek in one of his superhit films.
Sir, these were some of the ways in which I feel associated with you, but please allow me now to comment on what you said: “But dignity is getting construed as relevant acceptance of wrong. How to correct that. I invite comment and debate.”
Saying something would be to showing ‘Deepak’ to ‘Suraj’. But since you wished, I would say that in such matters, one should go by his or her conscience and never feel guilty conscious about it.
More later.
(P.S. A query which may be doing rounds in everyone’s mind — Do you really write these posts yourself? And do you wake till that late to post your blog? Like, one post was written past 2 am and this one was written at midnight. Do you wake till this late? We thought you lead a very disciplined life — early to bed and early to rise!)
Sir, Good Night and Shubh Ratri.