It's been eight decades and a year, but time has failed to dim that luminosity about her face. Nor has it deposited the burden of age on her still youthful-and supremely spiritual - voice. Yet, there is a tinge of sadness when the nightingale of the nation accepts the felicitations for the Bharat Ratna she's just been awarded. "He's not here to share it, that is my sorrow."
