# Remembering Professor P. Lal

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/remembering-professor-p-lal/
- Published: 2015-07-07T18:19:33+00:00
- Author: admin

# **Remembering Professor P. La**l

Professor P. Lal passed away on the 3rd of November 2010. Some of the articles written
about him and condolence messages we received have been put up here.

  |  **Obituaries:** |  **Scanned Images**: |  
 |  **Obituary in _The Economist_:**

[The Economist](http://goo.gl/jXmNW)

 |  [](http://writersworkshopindia.com/assets/img/the_economist.jpg) |  
 |  **Ruchir Joshi (_The Telegraph, India_):**

[Ruchir Joshi – The Telegraph India](http://goo.gl/b6cO2)

 |  [](http://writersworkshopindia.com/assets/img/the_telegraph_by_ruchir_joshi.jpg) |  
 |  **Antara Dev Sen (_The Asian Age_):**

Antara Dev Sen

 |  [](http://writersworkshopindia.com/assets/img/the_asian_age_by_antara_dev_sen.jpg) |  
 |  **Shashi Deshpande and others (_The Hindu_):**

[Shashi Deshpande and others](http://www.thehindu.com/books/A-true-pioneer/article15580349.ece)

 |  [](http://writersworkshopindia.com/assets/img/the_hindu_by_shsshi_deshpande.jpg) |  
 |  **Rita Bhimani (_The Telegraph, India_):**

[Rita Bhimani – The Telegraph India](http://goo.gl/xMx26)

 |  [](http://writersworkshopindia.com/assets/img/the_telegraph_by_rita_bhimani.jpg) |

 

#### Condolence messages from writers published by Writers Workshop:

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“He was really like a father figure to us, beginners.”

~ **Vimala Ramu**
 **5 November 2010**

“Men such as he belong to a very rare category of burnished gold, like the Rishis
of old. His verse-by-verse translation of Mahabharata is a task that is completely
superhuman. Without divine shakti, such a project cannot even be thought about, 
much less attempted and completed. His personal contribution to the world of Indian
English poetry and poets is unparalleled. And on a personal front, his warm words
to me, when I sent him my manuscript of poems _Seahorse in the Sky_, will ever remain
etched in my mind.”

~ **G. Kameshwar**
 **8 November 2010**

“Prof Lal was a distant beacon of hope for us, the aspiring writers.”

~ **Amitava Chakrabarty**
 **10 November 2010**

“I shall always remember the Professor; he accepted my script within 24 hours of
receipt. My dealings with him were to the point, friendly, and co-operative. I was
aware of his exalted reputation and there was always a deference. He truly belonged
to an age of probity and conviction; they don’t make such men in our age…

And I shall never forget him too for launching my first book. This is a gratitude
I shall carry with me through my time.”

~ **A. Sathyanarayanan**
 **10 November 2010**

“Professor P. Lal was a wonderful, rare, amazing and delightful person and I have
always felt so fortunate to have met him and very privileged to have been published
by him…

I love to remember going to his amazing lectures on the Mahabharata for the few 
short weeks I was in Kolkata, and how beautifully gracious he was when I met him.
He invited me to tea at his home… I love thinking of that day, of being introduced
to the philosophy and workings of Writers Workshop … Publishing done for ideal motives.
And I was more grateful for and heartened by Professor Lal’s response to the manuscript
he went on to publish than I can say, for he apparently understood as much about
what I left out as what was there.”

~ **Inez Baranay**
 **11 November 2010**

**Readers can also browse through tributes written by:**

Amrita Bera: [http://goo.gl/9C9LY](http://goo.gl/9C9LY)
 Kanchan Gupta:[http://goo.gl/m5p76](http://goo.gl/m5p76)
Pratik Kanjilal: [https://goo.gl/fWJgt2](https://goo.gl/fWJgt2) Gopikrishnan Kottoor:
[http://goo.gl/fYYk1](http://goo.gl/fYYk1) V. Ramaswamy: [http://goo.gl/zTqL4](http://goo.gl/zTqL4)
Suhel Seth: [_Hindustan Times_, 12 November 2010](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Suhel-Seth.jpg)