To Sir with Love

A long khadi full sleeved kurta.
Salt and pepper beard, unruly hair.
Lightest brown eyes.
Slightly more than just well-built, carrying a beer belly.
My professor, he stands tall.


I have never learnt like this before.
I have never thought like this before.
I have never been inspired like this before.
I have never had a teacher like him before.


I cannot thank you enough sir for your phenomenal inter-disciplinary lectures in which my mind raced. I was driven. Inspired. Thirsty. Hungry even. For knowledge. Left longing for more.

I cannot thank you enough sir, for under your tutelage I have grown humbly in wisdom, thought and action.

I cannot thank you enough sir for this very kind autograph. I will hold on to it with the fondest of memories, very dearly, remembering the extraordinary person that you are and the wisdom that you empowered me with.