Tony Jesudasan that you don’t know — Kafka in chemistry class and poems

22 February, 2023 

When I last spoke to Tony, we said we were in the departure lounge.

In the internet age, instant reaction seems to be mandatory. Unfortunately, I found out about Tony Jesudasan’s death after a day. Too late for a proper obituary which had already been written by better pens. In my case, perhaps one need not call it an obit, but a peep into the by-lanes of nostalgia. So, this one is not so much about Tony’s unusual career in New Delhi and more about one’s parting from a classmate and a friend of fifty-five years. I am hoping that anyone who has recently lost an old friend will relate to my anecdotage. It is truly a strange irony of destiny: the last time Tony and I spoke, we ended our conversation with the rather dismal statement that “we all were in the departure lounge”. This feeling comes over seventy-year-old persons.

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