As promised sharing never seen before details of Rahul's foreign trips
Rahul has again slipped to Vietnam, this time once again in midst of political storm in the country
Since 2024 Elections, Rahul Gandhi has spent 106 days out of India
106 days that we know of
But his one trip is of particular significance
Trip to Langkawi, Malaysia in September 2025, which connects so many dots
August 6, 1945. A 29 year old engineer is walking to work in Hiroshima on the last day of a three month business trip.
He's packed. He's going home to his wife and baby son tomorrow.
He looks up and sees a bomber high overhead. Something small falls from it.
Then the sky turns white.
His name was Tsutomu Yamaguchi. He designed oil tankers for Mitsubishi, and he'd been sent to Hiroshima to work at the company's shipyard. He was about two miles from where the bomb exploded.
The blast threw him off his feet. It burst his eardrums. It burned the left side of his upper body, his face and arms. For a while he couldn't see.
He spent the night in an air raid shelter in a city that no longer existed.
The next morning, badly burned, he found two of his coworkers who had also survived. Together they made their way through the ruins to a train station and got on one of the few trains still running.
They were going home.
Home was Nagasaki.
He got back on August 8, covered in bandages. His family barely recognized him. Doctors treated his burns. Most people would have stayed in bed.
On August 9, Yamaguchi reported to work.
He was sitting in the Mitsubishi office in Nagasaki, telling his boss what had happened in Hiroshima. How one bomb had wiped out an entire city. According to Yamaguchi, his boss told him that was impossible. That he must be out of his mind.
And at that moment, through the window, the room filled with the same white light.
The second atomic bomb had just exploded over Nagasaki. Once again, Yamaguchi was about two miles away.
The blast tore the bandages off his burns. The office was wrecked. And somehow, again, he lived.
He rushed home terrified of what he'd find. His house was destroyed. But his wife and son had survived too. They had gone out looking for burn ointment for him and were sheltering in a tunnel when the bomb hit.
Treating his injuries from the first bomb may have saved them from the second.
He was sick for a long time. His hair fell out. He had fevers and infections. But he recovered. He went back to work, raised a family, and lived a normal life for decades. He rarely talked about it publicly.
Hundreds of people are believed to have lived through both bombings. But in 2009, the Japanese government officially recognized Yamaguchi as a survivor of both, the only person ever formally given that status.
Late in life he finally started speaking out against nuclear weapons. He even addressed the United Nations.
He died in 2010 at the age of 93.
He was hit by the only two atomic bombs ever used in war. And he outlived the century they were dropped in.
A hundred years ago, if your kid got diabetes, the doctor's plan was to starve them. 400 calories a day. Some weeks, nothing at all.
It sounds insane but there was a grim logic behind it. Type 1 diabetes killed children within months back then, and less food meant less sugar in the blood, which slowed the dying. Kids on the diet stopped dying of diabetes and died of starvation instead, just slower. Parents signed up anyway because one extra year with their child was the best medicine could offer.
Elizabeth Hughes was the daughter of the US Secretary of State, so she got the best care money could buy. That care took her from 75 pounds at diagnosis down to 45 pounds by age 14. When her mother brought her to Toronto in August 1922, she could barely walk.
The treatment waiting there almost never got made. Frederick Banting was a small-town surgeon whose practice was failing so badly he was nearly broke. He talked a university into lending him a lab for one summer, and with a 21-year-old student assisting, isolated the pancreatic hormone researchers had chased for 30 years.
Five weeks after her first shot, Elizabeth was eating 2,500 calories a day with a pint of cream poured on top. She gained 60 pounds in four and a half months. She went to Barnard, raised a family, lived to 73, and kept the diabetes secret from almost everyone she knew.
Banting refused to put his name on the patent. He'd sworn the Hippocratic oath and believed a doctor had no business profiting from something like this. His co-discoverers sold it to the University of Toronto for a dollar. "Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world."
24 months from first injection to the Nobel Prize, and every diabetic kid on earth went from a death sentence to a normal life for the price of one dollar.