My Friend Rajan Phanse
By Rummuser. Filed in People, Relationships |Tags: Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Circket, CML, Euthanasia, Fighting spirit, Googly
I use the word googly quite often in my writings, which is a cricketing term used for a ball bowled by a bowler that turns the wrong way from the direction that the batsman expects. This is something like a curve ball or a dipper in baseball. Rajan Phanse is a Cricket Crazy follower of the game and has just bowled a googly.
Rajan Phanse has been a very dear friend and business associate for about a decade. He was one of Urmeela’s favourites too and the reason for that was that he used to call her his Julia Roberts. He is a charming, simple and generous fellow who wears his heart on his sleeves. I consider it a privilege to count him among my friends, as I am sure he does me.
Rajan has had a very eventful life and has seen a great deal of set backs and problems and has fought his way up from what I call, the bottom of the pits. Though he does not appear to be so, he is a fighter and his story written about in The Telegraph is proof of that quality.
All the characters mentioned in the story, Prithviraj, another fighter who has fought his way up from great troubles, Sangeetha, a remarkable woman and a loving sister to Rajan and Rajan’s mother, are all known to me and are almost like family.
Rajan was diagnosed as suffering from Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia in September 2002 and has fought that battle, the intensity of which is known only to very few people as he is not the type to talk about himself much. He is now in remission and has just come out of another battle, which is what the newspaper article is all about.
The purpose of writing this story as a post in my blog is to eat my words that I had written in my post “Euthanasia”.
Raja, it is nice to be your friend and thank you for teaching me a lesson which I will not forget in a hurry.
Thursday, December 24th 2009 at 14:06 |
Thank you for all your love and affection its very touching!God bless
Rummuser Reply:
December 24th, 2009 at 20:31
There is much more where it came from Raja.
Thursday, December 24th 2009 at 18:10 |
I have met this beautiful man and what a charmer he is. He is truly a kind and loving person when I remember being in India he is one of the people I remember. God Bless Rajan.
Rummuser Reply:
December 24th, 2009 at 20:31
Rajan is sure to read this and be touched Phil. I shall gently (in my style) nudge him to reading your comment.
Thursday, December 24th 2009 at 18:47 |
Each crisis has made Rajan a better person. Surely, his score on this count is pretty high. His recent encounter with death has turned him wee bit more spiritual. He is a phoenix in real sense. I am privileged to have Rajan as my friend. May God bless Rajan and his family.
Rummuser Reply:
December 24th, 2009 at 20:30
Tuhin, how nice to see you here. I hope that you will make it a habit. I am glad that you found the time to join me in paying tribute to Rajan.
Thursday, December 24th 2009 at 21:56 |
Well done Rajan. My mother is a cancer survivor and she was in the hospice, at the last stage. Ten years later, she’s still here.
Thursday, December 24th 2009 at 22:55 |
That’s a very real dilemma with euthanasia (or simply letting someone die). How do you decide whether someone is genuinely too far gone for any real hope of recovery or whether there is a serious chance they will get better? I hope I never have to make that decision, it would be truly agonising.
Rummuser Reply:
December 27th, 2009 at 19:20
So do I, so do I. That is the message that I sent Rajan in my lesson learnt.