What terrible news and my sincerest sympathies to his family.
Rankin MP was a friend and we had some great times together...a great design humanitarian.
He will be greatly missed.
Tiiu
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> 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
>
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> “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)
>
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>
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