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Dear Colleagues, We have lost a great friend and champion of design as a power for good in the world. His openness to new ideas, his own innovativeness, and teaching, his concern for others in and outside of India, the wonderful book he and his wife authored presenting crafts from all regions of India, his entrepreneurship in developing uses for bamboo, his active photography wherever he went, and his work to develop the institutions teaching design in India constitute only a small picture of the man he was. I had the privilege of sharing the podium with him at a breakfast meeting of business men in Australia, and a day touring its South Coast filled with great conversation, ideas, and appreciation of the beauty around us. It is a memory I cherish. Sadly, Chuck Burnette . > On Aug 9, 2015, at 9:16 AM, Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Burnette [log in to unmask] ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------