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When I came across the news on Facebook , I actually thought it was a joke. When I scrolled down the news on Ranjan MP, I still thought it was some design joke. Couldn't believe the news, I went to switch on my gmail account that is linked to PhD design to read the posts on the forum which I have long forgotten. Then it is confirmed that he died on Singapore's national day of severe heart attack. I have thought he looked fine all the time when I followed him on Facebook. I thought he was vehemently against the abusers of the environment, working on design problems and teaching his students. It didn't come to me he would go that soon. Then again, heart attacks, strokes and accidents do happen. Goes to show how vulnerable and unpredictable life could be and that we must always treasure the time, the effort, the words, the findings that we find every moment in our endearing short lives. It's shocking to follow the notes. Whilst every bit celebrated over the weekend, this comes in as a hard knocker. I follow his news on Facebook where his active participation and promoting Indian design is very strong and loyal. To the point that his students and colleagues have come to mourn in a heart breaking way. May there always be a Design enthusiast like Ranjan. RIP. To make a strong point, he had no ego, no discrimination and was very receptive. Yet, he died. The Mandarin Chinese Version : 一向寒山坐 淹留三十年 做来访亲友 太半入黄泉 渐减如残烛 长流似逝川 今朝对孤影 不觉泪双悬 Karen Fu Ps the English version doesn't make the true justice to the original poetry. Any Chinese members of this forum should know the meaning. Just felt the original poetry should be placed in too. Storm in a tea cup at this very hour... Yet I have to do work... Sunday, 9 August 2015 21:16 +0800 from Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]>: >Friends, > >It is with sadness that I inform you that M P Ranjan died after suffering a severe heart attack this morning. Professor Nina Sabnani of IIT Bombay wrote to inform me of his death. > >This is a genuine loss to our community and to the field. Ranjan was a welcome colleague to many of us. He was a voice for the value of design in the larger world, and a participant in our ongoing conversations. > >Ranjan said that all we really have in life is the square foot of earth on which we stand. The challenge we face is to work our own square foot of earth so that it is better and more fertile when we leave than when we got here. > >Ranjan left his square foot better than he found it. > >All of us who knew him are grateful for his contributions as a designer, a scholar, a teacher, an exemplar — and a friend. > >Ken Friedman > >-- > >“I have lived at Cold Mountain >These thirty long years. >Yesterday I called on friends and family: >More than half had gone to the Yellow Springs. >Slowly consumed, like fire down a candle; >Forever flowing, like a passing river. >Now, morning, I face my lone shadow: >Suddenly my eyes are bleared with tears.” > >— Han Shan > >(translation by Gary Snyder) > >-- > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >PhD-Design mailing list < [log in to unmask] > >Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design >Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design >----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------