The passing of an era

Dec 28th: the day Salim sir of Geology department, University College, silently slipped into a sleep from which he never woke up from. The heart attack that took his life didnt bring him much pain, and from a jovial man at 8:30 in the morning to a free soul at 9:00 was a shock. He had a cup of hot tea at the NSS camp organised by Jai Kiran at the VHS School Vattiyoorkavu, joked about a bit, offered to buy food for all in the camp, listened to some music with JK on the car stereo, and promised to be back on the 31st, the day the camp was to close. But that was never to be. After a short breakfast at home at 9:00 he slumped on the sofa, got up, walked to the bed, relaxed and never woke up.