Letter to a Friend -II
M ech71 members regularly exchange communications with each other, quite often a brief one but at times a long communication has a a message that others may find useful too. Therefore, I had posted one as a letter in this blog earlier. Here is another one that I just sent to Sanjay Mukerji one of our dear friends who recently suffered a severe cardiac arrest and is still indisposed but still full of his spirit of adventure and enthusiasm. Dear Sanjay, Your long communication describing the recent cardiac event you suffered made me get to know you in a way that I have never known you before, this despite the fact that I knew you from before IIT and our fathers knew each other from even before we were born. They say a human personality is immensely deep, so that one can never fully know another, even in a life time, not even oneself actually – that is why the Greek philosophers put that as the most esoteric task for a human to pursue – Know thyself. The interest ...