ability to honour those who deserve the honour.
Perhaps there is one more side to Dr Prabhakara Joshi's personality. His liveliness belies his years. He moves around, visits places and friends and does not allow fatigue to come in the way of his conversations and perorations which are invariably lively. He has his political views, but he does not consider it a sin to dialogue with those who hold different views. He is always willing to see the lighter side of apparently serious things and serious side of what are routinely dismissed as trite and unimportant things. There is in him a joy of life which ensures that he stays young, defying his chronological age. Talking to him also makes people young, for there is never a dull moment with him. That is perhaps what art, learning and affirmation of life can do to a person.
