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This letter to a friend was placed in the public domain because it may have content useful for public at large just as two other letters were similarly placed in this blog earlier. If greater clarity is required on the mention of the author's mother in the letter, please also see later, https://someitemshave.blogspot.com/2018/02/last-days-and-moments-with-mother.html Dear Sanjay When I read your email yesterday, it provoked laughter at first but on reflection it does require a serious response. My last letter to you now in public domain in the mech71 blog has become famous and I send the link of it at times to people facing health issues and it is appreciated much.    I had referred to you as roommate indeed in my email. The reason for not mentioning by name was an earlier request to you not to mention me similarly. I must thank you that like a true friend you did honor the request and if this time you violated, it was entirely my fault because I mention

MIND WITHOUT FEAR by RAJAT GUPTA I have mentioned in my other blogs that there have been times since childhood that intuitions on various matters, minor or major, have struck me from time to time through life. As a career scientist and a professor of technology I did not discuss the matter much with others because many consider the stuff from the mystic realms strange. However, I have talked more of it since retiring from a scientific career around a decade ago and even given it a name - Himalayas Born Intuition - for perhaps that is where it was born. Moreover, if the leading scientist of humanity- Einstein – could talk of it there is no reason for me not to. Last month, one morning one such intuition struck me at random. It was about a dear old college friend - Rajat Gupta. After leaving college, we have not had much opportunity to meet being in different countries. We have communicated much though, ever since the advent of emails. Rajat Gupta is a well-known consultan