Our classmate and friend V Ganesh passed away last month. Here is a beautiful tribute to him from our classmate and his friend and cousin Sriganesh.
Madan
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“ It is when you give of yourself that you truly give ”
The words of Kahlil Gibran sums up what Ganesh was.
My humble gratitude to the family and all around him for having waited for me, his friend, classmate and cousin, to reach before his cremation.
As he lay there still, frail and dark, having faced all the onslaught of modern medicine to cure the evil which was growing and eating inside him, my faint hope of he getting up and saying bye to me was in vain.
Thoughts of times of learning, youthful adventure and achievements, we had together, raced my mind. His communications during his early life in the Airforce, his affair with Petula and his later life all seems like yesterday.
Even when young he had a way with people. He could win over anybody, young or old. And he was always there to help whenever anybody needed it.
My father and Ganesh had mutual admiration.
My prayers to God for giving strength to Petula, Siddarth, Shagorika and all who were around him, to bear the sorrow of the loss.
He has left a big void and again Kahlil Gibran’s words bring solace to me :
“ For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun ?
And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides , that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered ?
Truly
Sriganesh
The words of Kahlil Gibran sums up what Ganesh was.
My humble gratitude to the family and all around him for having waited for me, his friend, classmate and cousin, to reach before his cremation.
As he lay there still, frail and dark, having faced all the onslaught of modern medicine to cure the evil which was growing and eating inside him, my faint hope of he getting up and saying bye to me was in vain.
Thoughts of times of learning, youthful adventure and achievements, we had together, raced my mind. His communications during his early life in the Airforce, his affair with Petula and his later life all seems like yesterday.
Even when young he had a way with people. He could win over anybody, young or old. And he was always there to help whenever anybody needed it.
My father and Ganesh had mutual admiration.
My prayers to God for giving strength to Petula, Siddarth, Shagorika and all who were around him, to bear the sorrow of the loss.
He has left a big void and again Kahlil Gibran’s words bring solace to me :
“ For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun ?
And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides , that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered ?
Truly
Sriganesh
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