FEDERATION
OF RETIRED LIC CLASS I OFFICERS' ASSOCIATIONS
President : N.P.
Bali
705,
Sur, Veena Saaz, Thakur Complex,
Kandivali
(East), Mumbai - 400 101
Mob
: 9820324213
Email
Id - npbali@hotmail.com
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General
Secretary : D
Krishnan
No.6/1,
Sreshta Riverside Apartments,
Wood
Creek Road, Nandambakkam, Chennai - 600089
Tel
: 9176635967 / 044 42850049.
Email
Id - dkrishnan1@gmail.com
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Ecircular
No.DK/82
15-09-2019
Dear
Friends,
Homage
to a man of greatness ....
Three
of us from Chennai , Sri Arunachalam, Sri V R Krishnan and I were
in Bengaluru yesterday, and
along with Sri O P Vasisht who had come from Delhi, called on the
Rajagopalan Family.
It
was quite a revelation to know from Sri Balki, his son, that his
dad had carried on gamely, over the last 10 years , with a weak
heart, functioning only to 25% of its capacity. I had to mention
later, in the Condolence Meeting, that having known him for 50
years when alive, I seem to discover an unknown facet of the man
now in his Death! Yes, he had been doing all his work for the
Federation and his own Legal practice, with this knife-edge
condition of his health! Sri Balki, his famous Film world son,
told us that, though he had a nagging prostate cancer going along ,
his Doctors had mentioned that his end will not be due to the
Cancer, but due to his Heart Condition, and they had not given him
more than 2 years of life, at that time, 10 years ago.
What
a selfless person he was, walking around doing his normal duties,
as if he was perfect in health, and not talking about it to any of
us ! He perhaps never wanted to unburden his problems on any of us,
or never wanted people to sympathize with him! What a Noble person,
and how we come to know of this tremendous facet of the man, only
in his Death! Sri Balki mentioned that continuing to do work,
to him , was like Meditation or Yoga for others, and he would get
re-charged doing his duties as usual.
A
number of people went up the stage to offer their tributes to a man
who had been a great Benefactor to all of us, without expectations
of Returns. Sri O.P.Vasisht, EC Member from Delhi, Sri
P V Subramanian, former Vice President of Chennai Association, Sri
M. Arunachalam, a close aide of the Man through all our Legal
issues, Sri V R Krishnan , Secretary , Chennai Assn, Sri T K S
Narayanan ,President, Sri K. S. Raghunath, Vice-President,
and Sri M S Rao of Bengaluru Assn were some of the other speakers.
Written
Messages condoling the passing away of this Noble person, received
from different quarters, were also read out, including the
former General Secretary Shri G.N.Sridharan, Shri S.K Awasthi from
Lucknow, Shri S. K. Majumdar, Kolkota.
Hats
off to the self-effacing leaders of the Bengaluru Assn., for their
devoted services through the day from the time we landed in
Bengaluru in the morning, to the time of our departure, in the late
hours in the evening. I will need to mention names of some of these
dedicated soldiers in the cause, viz., Sri T K Ravindran, Sri K S
Raghunath, Sri T K Bhat, Sri Hegde and B R Subramanian. They were
heavy in feelings, about a man, who had been a Pillar of strength
for the Assn, both financially and on other counts.
Incidentally,
the Draft of the Writ Appeal to be Filed in the Kerala HC on 18th ,
against the single judge verdict of 7-8-2019, on the 92-93
Retirees' Case, has been finalized. It was Sri Rajagopalan, who had
talked to our Advocate over phone just days ago, on how the Focus
of the Appeal should be, and when the Draft did arrive finally, he
was not there to see it!
So,
that's it for now, and with Fraternal Greetings to all!
D.Krishnan.
General
Secretary
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