Game Set Match
My father called me very late in
a winter evening. He stays merely a 10 minutes’ drive away from my house where
I live with my wife and kid. I had just completed another long day at the
office. As I freshened up and was heading towards dining table, I received the
call.
He said: “Rajabhau is no more. He
passed away in hospital today at 7 30 pm. Cremation is at Vaikunth at around
10”
I told him that I will pick him
up in around half an hour from then.
Rajabhau was very ill and
hospitalized. Last week his son and daughter flew from US which indicated the
gravity of the situation. My father also did some hospital duties being close
to him since their schooldays.
We reached at Vaikunth
crematorium where a large gathering was waiting for the mortal remains to reach.
He was a popular man across the segments of society: professional, social and
personal. He was a social worker to feature in the credit rolls off many marriages
that happened in Pune and nearby for almost three decades after the emergency. He was initially a sales guy turned
businessman who later undergone transformation as an IT guy. Yours truly can
make it to the credit rolls in that upgradation if you can call it as one. Many
IT professionals though will disagree looking at the work they do despite the
terminology of words they use to describe their profession and use extensively
while they carry out their profession.
Coming from an established family he had plenty of branches of relatives
and due his people first attitude had wide range of friends. Many of them had
gathered at the crematorium.
