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Dr. N.S. Sridharan 'Sri', 59
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Paddu
May 14, 2025
My lovely and only Brother, You are still in my memories.
PADMANABHAN N.S.
August 1, 2007
Wish I could keep the Guest book alive. But I cannot afford . Rest assured Sridhar is always in our Hearts as He is my Brother.
P A D D U
PADMANABHAN N.S.
October 9, 2006
Remebered Sridhar my only Brother on his 60th Birthday on October 2nd, 2006. We distributed fruits to the Blind and Orphans and also feeded all of them with a joyous meal at the SAI BABA MANDIR, Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad, A.P. INDIA
I am trying to attach some photographs also in due course. Any body coming to India is welcome to Hyderabad and meet me Paddu (N.S.PADMANABHAN) by informing me on my mobile (call or SMS) 91 9247 56 8970. N.S.PADMANABHAN
Bill Dixon
September 29, 2006
Sri was a powerful, peaceful and wise man, unlike any person I have ever met. He was unique in the way he saw things and could think about what was possible in this world. I only met him in the last year or so and he touched my life in a profound way; very lightly and in a way that encouraged me, but with great effect.
I, like many people, was shocked to lose Sri from our daily lives. He made a difference and made life better. I hope we can honor, with great love and care, what Sri taught us. I will.
I offer my prayers, peace and condolences to Sri's family and friends. He lived his life well.
sowmya ayyar
September 12, 2006
I will miss your smile and your support, especially when I move to Phoenix! I am happy to have known such an amazing personality.
Linda Vance
August 29, 2006
Sri is missed and will be remembered by many spheres of friends and acquintances. He called before leaving for Africa stating that when he returned he would take another volunteer assignment with a hospice patient. To his family, I send my sympathy and offer you comfort knowing that he shared his gifts of intellect and compassion; setting an example for those privileged to know him.
Linda Vance
August 29, 2006
Sri is missed and will be remembered by many spheres of friends and acquaintances. He called before leaving for travel to Africa stating that when he returned he would take another volunteer assignment with a hospice patient. To his family, I send my sympathy and offer you comfort knowing that he shared his gifts of intellect and compassion; setting an example on how to live fully.
Gayatri Padmanabhan
August 21, 2006
I am Blinking at the future. A great shock. Irreversible and unrecoverable.
[email protected]
My Uncle Sri is my father's Brother
Vasu Varma
August 20, 2006
Dear Sri,
After meeting you for the first time in 2001, I know I am different. You touched my heart and changed the way I look at the world. We have met several times, worked on several things, some failed and some were successful. In our last meeting you said "it is not important whether what we plan is successful or not - what is important for us is to work together, we will find some thing to work together". I was waiting for the next opportunity to work with you. Now, what I heard is not something I can accept.
When I saw you I saw compassion, peace, desire to change the world, and the pleasure in making those attempts.
Sri, you have taught me how to celebrate life. You showed me how easy it is to love people.. every one who comes across. You showed how much fun it is doing what you believe (without giving up ever), and finally you left me with a thought on how simple it is to call it a day, pack your bags and move on. But, what is not clear to many people is how hard you worked in creating Sri-people so that they carry the work further.
Sri - I will miss you as my dear friend and my greatest mentor.
Enjoy the infinite peace as we will celebrate your life.
nick kondax
August 19, 2006
Sri was a "Great Soul" and has left his indelible soul print on all those that knew him. Never having the opportunity to meet him personally, I only had a chance to correspond him briefly through email about the stories he had learned about the Mahatma Ghandi. He was elated that I was sharing these stories with the First Univeralist Church of Dexter, Maine.
David Watkins
August 19, 2006
My heart goes out to Sri's family and many friends. I've been inspired by Sri mostly though our participation in the some internet discussion group for several years. I became involved with his Technology Initiatives for Peace (TIP) project and had the great fortune to meet him when he taught his course with that name at the American University in DC. Sri's intellectual and spiritual depth was complemented by his skilled storytelling and his great sense of humor.
Jim Boushay & Rickey Sain
August 18, 2006
"We believe we need to make it profitable to entrepreneurs to solve social problems. If it were profitable to rid the world of hunger, hunger would be a thing of the past in short order."
Sri Sridharan, co-founder, The Have Heart Program, India
An hour ago we heard by phone about Sri Sridharan's death August 3 in Phoenix. We are so sorry he has unexpectedly left us.
Colleague and friend of Umberto Eco (eminent philosopher on the theory and study of signs and symbols, known as semiotics), Sri Sridharan was a visionary, a mentor, and a disciple of Ghandi. The form of malaria that took Sri from us is physically violent in its hopelessly destructive death-dealing dimensions. He was 59. We are so sad that we will no longer be with him physically.
We know that friends must be in terrible sorrow. Our thoughts as well go out to them. When someone close to us dies, something in us dies too. Then we spend time grieving for the something that died in us. For humans still on earth, that's what the physical death of someone close may feel and look like. On this end, we ourselves will grieve the loss of hope that we will ever again on this planet be in the same physical space with such a Star of God's Wonder as Sri Sridharan.
In deepest sympathy,
Jim Boushay and Rickey Sain
[email protected]
Somayajula Achuta Ramaiah
August 17, 2006
Yes he was a good man my classmate in IIT Madras . He was a topper in every subject. He contacted me in Hyderabad for his vision of buiding an equipment givng autoread out of heart rate, BP , pulse rate etc by paying just paying a small amount for the poor in India. He was still in the process and then his untimely death leaves a big vaccum in his search and vision for such equipment for his country India. May God bless his soul and his daughter Radhika and brother Paddu and his family. He was a big man in every way.His last talk with me still ring in my ears about his big vision for India-infact he wanted to mneet President Kalam for this job. . Well not to be !! God bless his kindly soul .
With saddened hearts me and my Ramani feel his great loss and our hearts go out to his brother Paddy.
achuta
Donald Christian
August 15, 2006
It was a privilege to know and work with Sri and share his friendship. I worked with him at the FMC Artificial Intelligence lab, and also on the IJCAI board. His warm friendship and good humor and support made a welcome part of work for me and our colleagues. He made our workplace and world a better place for us.
Chris Beery
August 14, 2006
Sri was my uncle ... I along with some of his other nephews and nieces have not seen him in some years. Those years, however, have not dulled the memory his intellect, wit or charm and they certainly have not dulled the sting of this loss. We morn deeply and send heartfelt sympathies to his family and particularly to his beautiful daughter, my cousin Radhi.
Celeste and Randy Null
August 13, 2006
Sri was an inspiration to both of us in our careers at Intel. He was never without a smile and encouragement. We will miss our friend and colleague - our deepest sympathy and prayers.
Paddu N.S.PADMANABHAN
August 9, 2006
I am Paddu Brother of Sridhar living in Hyderabad, A.P., INDIA. Radhika is his Daughter has lost her Father and me my Brother.All my Sisters after me and Sri namely Mallika, Bharathi, Kalyani,&Bhavani have lost only one brother out of two, but I have lost the only Brother though younger than me. Radhika lost her Father. All who want to sympathise with need to send messages to Radhika at [email protected], and to me at [email protected],
With love to Humanity,
PADDU
PADMANABHAN N.S.
August 9, 2006
Be Still
Be still like the grass on a melancholy summer day
Be still like desert shrub.
Be calm and you will hear your loved one speak, in the stillness, in the calm, their love resounds.
If you are still this promise I make, you will hear the voice of your loved one helping you along your way.
Trecia Taylor
August 9, 2006
Though I did not come to know Sri as well as I would have liked, I do know that he is the type of person that each of us should strive to be. His love and compassion will live on through his contributions to the world and through his greatest creation: Radhika. Ryan and I send our deepest condolences to friends and family for the sudden loss of someone so special.
James Broscheid
August 9, 2006
It is difficult coming to grips with Sri's passing from this world. Knowing Sri found the person he was searching for inside himself in Africa brings relief. My condolences to all his family and friends. Sri was a mountain of a man.
madhusudan Agrawal
August 7, 2006
To know Sri bhai is to know compassion. I came in close contact with him when I was working on a film about dwarkoji. It's still hard to believe he is no longer with us physically . I send love, and prayers for his family and friends, knowing his light will forever shine.
Elizabeth Reuthe
August 7, 2006
My deepest sympathy to Sri's family and friends who are all grieving his loss today. Sri and I hve been colleagues since 1994, first in Knowledge Management working on the Millenium Project with Intel and Siemens and then carving out and applying the trust model. He was a dear friend who taught me much about compassion, about myself and I will miss him dearly.
Karen Aiken
August 7, 2006
Family and Friends of Sri,
What a gift Sri has been to me over and over again, as I know he has been to all of you, his dear friends and family. I will never forget Sri and his "kindly, kindlier, kindliest" philosophy and the deep way he lived this in his own life. I will sorely miss Sri. I have been blessed by his friendship. May his soul be at peace and may we all continue to be filled with his presence.
Victoria Crawford
August 7, 2006
The Sri that I knew was a beautiful man that lived from a spacious and peaceful heart. I will miss his wise insights, generous nature and gift for connecting the right people at the right time. He was an inspiration for the much needed work of trust and world peace.
Many, many blessings and love during this difficult time to all his family and friends.
Brad Anders
August 7, 2006
I worked with Sri at Intel, his passing was a shock to all of us who knew him. Sri brought new perspectives to any problem or opportunity he worked on, and had a deep personal interest in his co-workers and friends.
Kevin Dooley
August 6, 2006
To Sri's family and friends I send my sympathies. His spirit will live in all of us very strongly, and we can all strive to be as compassionate as he was.
Francine Hardaway
August 6, 2006
To Sri's relatives, both those I have met and those I haven't, my condolences. Your brother, father changed my life; he was a brilliant and wonderful man, and I am so happy I got to visit India with him -- not once, but twice, and to be with him as he reached out to people to continue the work of Ghandi and Dwarko Sundrani. I cannot believe he is gone from the physical world; I know he is out there somewhere continuing his work.
Phillip Blackerby
August 6, 2006
I always wanted to write down every word Sri spoke; he was full of wisdom and profound thought. He taught me a lot about myself in the too-few times I was with him. I miss him already!
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