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Prakashji’s so-called friends

Jul 16, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Yet again another one of Prakashji’s so called friends is trying to cash in on his good name.
I read with dismay, the article Mr. V. Bisram wrote on Prakashji’s success as an ‘educator’. Was Bisram trying to tell us that Prakashji owed his success to him and that he ‘helped’ him to get a job as a teacher?
Not so long ago I read some comments made by Mr. Reepu Daman Persaud in another newspaper. He too was claiming that Prakashji was his ‘chela’ and all that he did for him.
I wrote a letter to the editor of that newspaper informing them that Prakashji was never his chela, it was his ex-wife who was and Mr. Persaud was just another one of the many pandits that Prakashji obeserved during his learning days…unfortunately that letter was never published.

Shri Prakashji was one of a kind. He was born with his gifts and his parents nurtured them He was a risk taker and dared to go where others wouldn’t, and that is what brought him success.
I was blessed to know Prakashji as a young child and even at the tender age of 10, he was a disciplinarian
. He couldn’t stand disobedience and bad behaviour. He organised Diwali concerts and Phagwa fairs for his school and community. He knew he had something special and wanted to share it.

Everyone in New York thinks his life began when he caught their attention there….but he was a debater, singer, preacher, scholar etc., long before then and caught his true friends’ attention since he was 10 years .
Tell what he has done for you and stop talking about what you have done for him. If he ever sought the help of others, it was to help his fellow man.
You didn’t do it for him. He wanted you to do it for the helpless and used himself as the instrument.
Sandy G.

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