Hey Buddy! How are you doing today?
Thoughts of you come every single day
Not of melancholy, not of mourning, but those that lift my spirits
And mentor me to do my best and make you proud without limits
Methinks that you departed us too early for the heavenly abode
But lo and behold! - Just realized "YOU" are with us on this life road
Only that you relocated to a place more conducive than this
That facilitates fulfilling your further and newer responsibilities
Your dealings and activities on this stage came to a culmination
As you no more ail - good for you but bad for us - miss your wit in action!
Wondering how easily you handled the humour with so much finesse
I know not your art of wordplay that you managed with such ease!
How beautifully you stretched your imagination to capture
The simple things of life yet very subtle in nature
Your ardent love for language positively manifested in your writing
The challenge is upon us to tend your love and keep it growing
Ah! Forgot your immense love that reached to even programming languages
Passion for C++ was amazing; managed well with C#, but Java with little grudges
Played around with Ruby, Perl and Python too! - gee, this is not my cup of tea
But I am sure your techie friends still think: "What would Kartik do if he were me?"
You may be gone in the embodiment, but "YOU" are still here with us
In a form that is so difficult to comprehend but so easy to experience
In the moments of doubt and fear just imagining "YOU" by my side
Gives me reassurance and any kind of fear in me find hard to reside
Thank "YOU" for being there!
Dearest Kartik,
ReplyDeleteWe remember you every day, try to learn from the way you led your life and count ourselves as fortunate to have known you.
Lots of love,
Jogin-Reena-Het-Preet
Dear Kartik kaka
ReplyDeleteA person like me who have met You hardly for three times is influenced by You like anything. I can understand the emptiness felt by those who have spent years with You. Exactly one year back Pankti called me about You leaving all of us behind. Have been culprit of not visiting the blog and hence not met You through out this year but that does not mean that have taken Your exit very lightly.
Remembering You on this day and will do always for the spirit with which You have fought the battle (and win many hearts). Your presence in the form of this blog will always be helpful to many persons in this world. This blog as I could go through has become Your identity in Your absence and everybody is writing with the expectation that some day You will reply if not by writing than by doing some magical things like "Alice in wonderland". Hoping for the same.
Yours only
Milind Pankti and Aanshi
Dear Kartikbhai, A tribute/salute to you by working late with your remembrances... can't think of better way.
ReplyDeleteSb has nicely echoed the feelings. Keep guiding us remotely.
Love always,
From all of us.
On your 'duo' versary, just wanted to say that this blog still enriches a few of us and is a continuing reminder of how to face the worst with courage, humour and an indomitable spirit.
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The Providence had better plans for you that led you to be apart from us
ReplyDeleteAn inner voice asserts - You may be gone, but you are always a part of us!
Your deadly bugs - Smile, Spirit, Sensitivity, Simplicity, and Sincerity became highly contagious
Thus making it extremely difficult for us to remain out of their clutches
And sure enough, we got clung to it completely during the moments of crisis
In no time, these bugs gave rise to a few more in the form on Energy, Enthusiasm, and Earnestness
Together all the bugs wiped away the army of Sorrow, Suffering and Sullenness
Taking over the entire system in control and command of themselves
Two years hence, the system is working great even with more bugs!
Thank you!
Well put, Surbhi. Two years on, Kartik continues to touch and change lives, not least of all my own.
ReplyDeleteDo well, sweet friend and thanks for the love you shower on us.
Hi there,
ReplyDeleteI interviewed someone named Kartik today here in Seattle and memories of one of the most generous and kind human beings I’ve ever met came rushing back to me. Kartik… miss you bud.
-- Jeremy
Dearest Kartikbhai,
ReplyDeleteVisiting you here after a very long time. Not that I have not thought of it because I dont think there is even an hour in the day when I do not think of you or of talking with you. I have just not felt like writing anything. Had feeling "how does it matter?" But I know better now that sharing with you even through this is therapeutic.
Every time I see Avvi I think of how you would have loved to play with him, to see him do the things he does. You would have shouted at me when I correct him. :) Though it is Mahy who reminds me of you. She is so sensitive, just like you were. She is perceptive, just like you were and she is turning out to be quite a human being, just like you were.
I have also realised that time is not a healer, it is luller. It only helps you lull your pain and not heal it.
Taking care of Ma and papa is also difficult. I keep wishing you were here to ease their pain and help them through their difficult times. I do my best but also know that I fall short desperately compared to what we both could have achieved. Family functions are equally difficult. Went for Harshil's wedding and remembered how both of us would normally be busy among ourselves.:)
Well you now have Rameshbhai for company and I am sure that both of you will have a good time. What is our loss is the gain for the other world!
I promise I will write more. Maybe I should start a Diary with just you and me so that the others dont get bored with our banter. :)
Love always,
Devangi
I love your banter Devangi. Please keep it coming. Would be happy to hear your thought any day.
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Happy Birthday Buddy. Modern college said they will identify four students by next week. Also they are planning a inter-college software programming competition next month. You support and blessings needed as always. Sorry I was not there when I should have been.
ReplyDeleteI am sure the news about the programming competition would be the best birthday gift for him!
DeleteDear Kartik .. you are greatly missed!!!! Looking forward to doing the climb again this year. Every year that is, and will continue to be, the first event I do. Happpy Birthday!!!!!
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Thinking of you Kartik!
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Dearest Kartik,
ReplyDeleteTomorrow, 7th November, you will be turning 44…It will be your 44th birthday , .Whenever I see Avvy who is 4, I am just wondering is your birthday double digit 4 or single digit 4…I see both images in my mind… you at 44 and you at 4… but I am happy with both the images.
The image at 44 is my friend philosopher and guide. I share my all happiness, sorrows sadness sometimes injustice, bitterness with this image of you at 44. I talk to you with your image in front of me. Sometimes we are blamed without any rhyme or reason then sometimes I cry, sometimes I complain, sometimes I blame our stars. And all the time I talk to your photo in front of me. And the answer is as usual “Maa, forget and forgive” or “ignore”. I try to follow these. Sometimes I am successful, sometime I am not. But you are always with me. Even at Spider Logic, Mr. Murli used to say that when they face some problem in coding, we ask ourselves, How would Kartik have solved this problem, and we get the solutions immediately. So not only me but others too look foreword to you whenever a roadblock is faced.
I thoroughly enjoy and love spending as much time as possible with the 4 yr old child keeping image of you at 4 years in front of me.. He is our solace, happiness, peace of mind, tranquility. When we are with him we forget everything and we try to treasure every moment spent with him keeping you in our memory.
Rest assured you are always in our mind heart.
With lots of love,
Maa
Beautifully written, Aunty. The one question I still have for Kartik is how a heart could so free of any negative thought. He will always be our inspiration to keep away from petty thoughts and hatred and anger.
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