In the Asian Voice of 28th January there was a feature on Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and when I read that I remembered that I had had the greatest privilege of meeting him when I was a little girl. He had come to our house and my father told me about him in advance saying that I should try and remember the meeting as he was such a special person.
I must have been about 7 at that time although I don't exactly remember which year it was. When Khan Sahib arrived he was wearing faded orange kurta and pajama and really seemed extremely tall to me. My father and mother were quite small relatively speaking and he stood well a head above them. He had grizzled grey hair and was very relaxed. I don't remember when my father and he talked about but I remember him as an image totally fixed in my mind. I have been very lucky with meeting people and with my father explaining to me who they were.
Baroness Flather
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