{"id":1858,"date":"2008-05-01T23:08:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T15:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/05\/01\/pandithans-last-words\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T23:08:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T15:08:21","slug":"pandithans-last-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/05\/01\/pandithans-last-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandithan&#8217;s last words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>His last words &#8211; there is no death for me<\/strong><br \/>\nBy V.P. SUJATA and MAZWIN NIK ANIS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/5\/1\/nation\/21117536&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PUTRAJAYA: The late Indian Progressive Front (IPF) president Tan Sri M.G. Pandithan wrote a note to his wife that read &#8220;There is no death for me&#8221; in Tamil before falling unconscious at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital on Sunday. He died of cancer at 9am yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>His wife Puan Sri G. Jayashree, 55, said she did not understand what he meant.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, he could have been paraphrasing the great 20th century Tamil poet Subrahmanya Bharathi, and the verse meant that <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">a person may die but his works will live on after him<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Jayashree said the funeral had to be delayed for their only child Jayan, 21, a fourth-year medical student in Ukraine, to return home.<\/p>\n<p>Pandithan had been hospitalised for over three months.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Pandithan&#8217;s passing was a great loss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also appreciate him being a great supporter of the Barisan Nasional,&#8221; he told reporters after paying his last respects in Taman Bukit Serdang, Seri Kembangan, yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah told Jayashree to be calm because she had a heavy responsibility now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand that she will be taking over the leadership; so I hope she will be able to cope with the new role and is given support by party members,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said: &#8220;We are shocked by his death and wish to extend our condolences to his family. He worked tirelessly for the Indian community. I will miss him a lot because he was also my friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>People&#8217;s Progressive Party president Datuk M. Kayveas said the poor, have-nots and illiterates in the Indian community had lost a voice that fought hard for them.<\/p>\n<p>MCA secretary-general Datuk Ong Ka Chuan said Pandithan was a politician with noble principles and cared for the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His last words &#8211; there is no death for me By V.P. SUJATA and MAZWIN NIK ANIS source PUTRAJAYA: The late Indian Progressive Front (IPF) president Tan Sri M.G. Pandithan wrote a note to his wife that read &#8220;There is no death for me&#8221; in Tamil before falling unconscious at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[109,225],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-ipf","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}