Sir — Whatever our travails, our generation, and the ones before us, were fortunate to live in the decades in which there were great leaders, visionaries who combined their ideal with action and changed the world they inherited. My own generation lived at the time of Mao, Tito, Fidel and Che Guevara.
Fidel Castro was the last of them all. At 90, he died old and frail, but undefeated and unbroken, standing up till the very end to the world’s mightiest power that ceaselessly tried and unendingly failed to snuff him and his tiny but great nation out.
For the millions who mourn his death, Castro stood for something very basic — the ability and the will to stand up to a force infinitely larger and more powerful than one self. And that he managed to do so till his last breath, makes him a real life David that the world has seldom seen.