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Me, a permanent though latent space and rocket nut met an instant buddy - Mukul Kamal Mukherjee - on a bench outside the Sri Ramakrishna Charitable Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram . I heard he spends hours each day seated there and saying Namaste to passing men, women, doctors, and nurses and kids who often smile and return his stranger-greetings .His brain scan shows age-related atrophy. His memory is lousy. He dodders. And he is probably around 77, But his spirit still soars though he was swindled of all his bank balance some years ago by an underling who took advantage and vanished. When he croons a malayalam ditty on Krishna-Govinda-Mukunda, I found him at his cheerful serene likeable best. He has no visitors nor calling relatives. But he remembers his PhD in Engineering from Stuttgart and an adorable childless German foster-mother (Mrs.Leitz) who had helped him grow spiritually. This was before he was interviewed, grabbed and carried off to ISRO by Vikram Sarabhai as head of Materials and Quality Control. The 22m long, all-solid 4-stage, 17 ton SLV-3 launches and the 40kg Rohini satellite series surely owes a good bit to him. But how many of us have the good fortune to meet and remember anonymous pioneers? I guess I am lucky!!! So his childish happy grin seemed twice as bright as leaned towards me and whispered: Abdul Kalam and I, fellow bachelors, shared the same room and loo at the Indira Bhawan Lodge near the State Secretariat Bldg not far away.We used to ride a bus to ISRO everyday. But he does not remember him as President! God bless dear Mukul-da for when I introduced myself as suresh his natural lightheartedness surfaced. Welcome.... welcome... he said you are my father; you see, he was Suresh Chandra Mukherjee.And when I asked him which car he had owned in Germany while thinking of wild Porsche,Mercedes and BMW models, he grinned and said I never learnt to drive, Buses and trains were enough. God bless him. No wonder I feel blessed too to meet my first real and impish Rocket Man. Our few shared days and hours and chai will be treasured as long as I live.

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