N. Sankaraiah
The passing of the veteran Marxist leader, N. Sankaraiah, who was 101, is saddening. I have vivid memories of an incident of the early 1980s. While travelling in a crowded electric train on the Tambaram-Madras Beach line, I spotted the leader — he was an MLA — and greeted him. He sported a smile and asked me where I was working. He surprised me by immediately naming the president of the association in my organisation and asking me how he was.
The best tribute we can pay to him is to request his alma mater, American College, Madurai, to build a conference hall and hold an annual seminar in his memory. The Tamil Nadu government should help in this.
