Keshav Desiraju remembered
The Hindu
He was a gentleman who touched people’s lives, say friends
Speakers who shared their memories of Keshav Desiraju, a bureaucrat who recently passed away in Chennai, recalled him as a gentleman who touched many people’s lives. Desiraju, former Union Health Secretary and grandson of former President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, died on the latter’s birth anniversary on September 5. Gopalkrishna Gandhi, former Governor of West Bengal, said he had known him for nearly four decades and remembered him as “an extremely private person who was easy to know but not easy to understand”. During his stint in the Department of Personnel and Training, Desiraju had the opportunity to get to know every officer. “He knew their individual problems, eccentricities and in the process he became in the world of civil servants a keeper of their panchanga” which helped when these individuals needed help, he said.More Related News
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