The untiring teacher In her lifetime she was the needle pulling thread stitching together a community. She is gone now, but the garland remains, telling her story Upala Sen | | Published 14.03.21, 12:43 AM
The last many years she was a rolling punctuation in the university-scape of Presidency. A wizened comma in a white sari and an orthopaedic belt strapped to her back. There were many who had no idea who she was or what she was doing there. And yet, last December, when news got around that at 82 she had left for the bigger campus in the skies, gone full stop, it stung the idea of campus normal they were also clinging to. It was another reminder that nothing ever was going to be exactly as it used to.