Monday, April 24, 2006

Letter to Dr. Badrinath

Dr. S. S. Badrinath, Chairman of Sankara Nethralaya, sent me two links to articles concerning spectacular breakthroughs achieved by Sankara Nethralaya in the annals of ophthalmology and innovations in surgical procedures, which are as follows:

Patient regains sight after marathon surgery

Blindness in India calls for research: Badrinath

I am also posting my response to my very dear friend:
Dear Badri:

Our sun is one of the mediocre stars in our home galaxy, which we call the Milky Way. It is in decline, enfeebled by age. Six billion years old, probably with three billion more years to go, when it would die. Human life, or all life as we know it on our blue planet, which we so fondly call Earth, can trace direct ancestry and connectivity only to our sun, before it can relate to the inter-galactic universe. Every element of our body and our environment is derived from the emanations of the sun. But then, most of all this is not known to people. What is most known about the sun is the Light, and therefrom the Vision.

Light and vision, for the better part of the past fifty years, have been your principal, if not exclusive, occupation. In making it so, indirectly, you have paid the highest respect to the originator of our species, the sun. More than anyone else that I know of, you have protected, restored, or even given vision to people, with devotion and skills not easily comparable with any other during this period. Single-mindedly enrolling Vasanti, and many other devotees, you spread your knowledge and ingenuity to create a monument, the dedication and success of which cannot be matched or measured. I salute you, your team, and your monument.

Admiring and loving,
Ramesh

I had composed and taken a picture specially for him, which I hope continues to illuminate his office:

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