Chitran Namboodiripad

Chitran Namboodiripad

Meeting with a marvelous person.

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to meet Shri. Chitran Namboodiripad, 97 year young legendary personality. He was on a stopover in Delhi, enroute to Kerala after visiting Badrinath, Kedarnath and Amritsar. For the last 25 years he has been visiting the holy shrines of Uttarakhand without any break along with a big team. This year his team consists of 106 members.  Mr. Namboodiripad is a scholar, educationist, erudite reader, eloquent speaker, versatile writer, vivid conversationalist, a walking encyclopedia and above all an extra ordinary person, who can be considered as the embodiment of all human virtues.  He is the personification of love, affection, compassion, consideration, simplicity, sagacity etc and his mere presence will provide you inspiration, positive energy, motivation etc. He held very high positions in Government of Kerala.  About 70 years ago, he established a school in his native village as there was no facility for education in his remote village at that time.  10 years later, he handed over the school to The Government at a token price of one rupee.  After retirement, he was associated with various socio cultural and charitable organizations and presently he is the Director/Vice Chairman of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan School in Poochatty, Thrisssur.

During my brief talk with him, he shared his memory with my late father and other relatives. About 7 years ago, I had met him at the same venue and he vividly remembers about the meeting which is an eloquent testimony of his sharp memory. Even at this age, he has no problem in walking and climbing stairs and has no other health problem. It is extremely difficult to find a person with all virtues and without a single negative quality. I pay my humble regards to this legend and wish and pray for his continued health and happiness to enable him to serve the humanity for many more years. I also appeal to the almighty to create more exemplary and noble people like him to make this world a much better place to live in.

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Actually the School with 5 acre land, buildings, furniture etc was gifted to the Government. However, since some amount has to be shown in the registry, a token amount of one rupee was indicated for record purpose only. Mr. Namboodiripad says that the handing over of the documents to his ex-teacher and the then Kerala Education Minister Prof. Joseph Mundassery was one of the proudest moments of his life. If more and more people learn and practice the “Art of giving”, the world will become much more beautiful place, not only visually but also socially, economically, culturally, morally and ethically. Unfortunately, many people are miser in giving even unlimited resources like love, affection, regards, compassion, recognition, appreciation etc, despite the fact that the more you give, the more you get in return.