At 82, Sharad Pawar Continues To Be The Machiavelli Of Indian Politics

File photo of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar at an event in Mumbai.

Source : Getty

At an age when most of his contemporaries have either retired or have left the world, Sharad Pawar continues to call the shots in Maharashtra and national politics. Having survived cancer more than once, and undergone multiple surgeries, at the age of 82, his mind seems to be as young as a 25-year-old youngster. In 2019, when Maharashtra was witnessing an unprecedented political upheaval, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut famously commented — "One has to take a hundred births to understand the