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Walk down memory lane

— Photo: V. Ganesan

SHARING THOUGHTS: Chattisgarh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan (centre) interacts with Ramakrishna Math (Chennai) president Gautamananda at the valedictory of Vivekananda College’s diamond jubilee celebrations on Friday. (From left) K. Ganesan, K.V.S. Gopalakrishnan, Vidyapith S. Ramakrishnan and S. Doraiswamy are in the picture.

Chennai: Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College has performed exemplary service in promoting value-based higher education, Chattisgarh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan said here on Friday.

At the valedictory session of the college’s diamond jubilee celebrations, Mr. Narasimhan said the college had instilled values such as commitment to duty, discipline and voluntary service in generations of students.

An alumnus of the college, he recalled his college days with nostalgia. Once when he had missed a mathematics class he had fabricated the excuse that it was his sister’s wedding. “My teacher told me to go home and ask my parents if they organised weddings in the month of Margazhi (considered inauspicious for weddings)… I learnt my lesson in honesty,” Mr. Narasimhan remarked.

M.S. Sundara Rajan, Indian Bank chairman and managing director, and K.V.S. Gopalakrishnan, Minister in the Indian Embassy in Berlin, said that they still upheld the values they learnt in college.

Ramakrishna Math (Chennai) president Gautamananda urged students to heed Swami Vivekananda’s call for selfless service and for helping the underprivileged. Vocalist T.V. Sankaranarayanan, an alumnus of the college, gave a performance at the programme. Former principal K. Ganesan, assistant secretary of Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith S. Ramakrishnan and academic S. Doraiswamy participated in the session.

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