Sunil
Uke, bas naam hi kafi hai!
It
is a fact that the name of my younger brother has been taken with a
lot of pride by all his friends, relatives and all those whose lives
he has touched.
As a child he loved the catapult and roamed around with a quiver full of arrows and a bow in his hands stretched out like a warrior. This picture of a three year old going about busily in our lawn at Nagarjuna sagar dam Project comes in front of my eyes, when I remember him as a young boy. His love for the game of “chor sipahi” continues to this day as throughout his career he has been catching evaders.
As
a school student he excelled in Sports. He is a black belt in Judo. Name the sport and Sunil has been in it.As a school boy or College student he was never vocal about any of his achievements.We would come to know about them from his friends. He loved dramatics and acted in plays. He was very good at sketching and drew beautiful cartoons of animals. Sunil used to play the mouth organ beautifully. Old Hindi movie songs sounded great when he played them on his mouth organ.
One
can think of a number of things that he did without advertising it.
We never knew that he was a regular blood donor, until someone needed
blood transfusion and we came to know that he had a donor's card and
used to donate blood.
His
room was very nicely decorated with bits and pieces picked up
from various places. A broken bicycle, a Lantern, a “Pull Chain to
stop Train” sign were placed aesthetically in his room.
Another interesting thing about Sunil during College days was that he always wore black trousers and
white shirts. That way he never had to think about what to wear, and
no one knew how many clothes he had! He
has been a person with minimum needs and almost no vanity.Only
one thing which I found was different from most people was that he
liked to wear stylish Long Boots with a zip on the side.
While
our younger brother Ujjwal and I were book worms, Sunil never had the
patience to read books. He always settled for comics.
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He
did very well in his studies. Because of our dad's transferrable job,
Sunil studied at Bishop Westcott Boy's School, Namkum, Mount
Carmel Hazaribagh for a couple of years, then St. Xavier's
Hazaribagh, then Kendriya Vidyalaya, Faridabad, Andrew's Gunj and
Delhi Cantt. College was St. Stephen's with English Hon's followed by
JNU. As if that wasn't enough, while in service he did Law and MBA.
He
has been an Outstanding Officer of the Customs and Central Excise,
and won the President's Gold Medal as soon as he became
eligible for it. He has reached great heights in his career.
His
latest love is Marathons. Every Sunday morning sees him at the India
Gate. The cold winter mornings of Delhi with dense fog too does not
deter Sunil from this programme. He has participated in Marathons in
almost all the parts of India.
The
love of Mountains took him on a trip to the Base camp of Mount
Everest a couple of years ago. The following year he led a team to
Mansarovar.
Sunil
loves to watch movies. I am quite sure he knows all the dialogues of
Teesri Manzil by heart. He is a Dev Anand fan, and can watch his
favorite movies over and over again.
He
is quite a story teller. He used to keep both my children enthralled
and awe struck by his adventures in the Burma War! Of course a war
which he never went to.
Sunil
is often misunderstood by a lot of people as he does not speak
sweetly. He never shows his emotional side.
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My
father always said that Sunil is very rough while talking, but he is
a very kind, helpful and soft person inside. Perhaps it is the
discerning eye of a father who understood the nature of his son. He is extremely helpful, people do not
even have to ask, but if Sunil notices that someone is in need, his
helping hand appears mysteriously.
Thank
you Sunil for being what you are. I am extremely proud of my brother,
and today on his birthday, I wish him every happiness in his life.
He
deserves the BEST because he is the best.
