November 8, 2025—Lal Krishna Advani, the venerable patriarch of Indian politics whose ideological fervor and unyielding nationalism sculpted the contours of the nation’s right-wing renaissance, marked his 98th birthday today in a poignant, low-key celebration at his Delhi residence, encircled by a constellation of family, loyalists, and a pantheon of political pantheons who converged to confer a cascade of emotional tributes upon a statesman whose life has been the lodestar for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)