PARTICIPATIVE SUPPORT

A BIG THANK YOU

Continuing our efforts for participative support in the form of increasing subscription to ISSUES & CONCERNS we had tapped our editorial board member Mr V.K.Talithaya, as well. He agreed to sponsor 20 of his friends, relatives, associates and colleagues. WE PROFUSELY THANK MR V.K.T. FOR HIS GENEROUS GESTURE. We have pleasure in sharing some of our thoughts on the man as follows. Of course he had asked us to be brief.

In Bykamapdi Industrial cluster, there is a spic & span modern industrial unit, Primacy Industries Ltd., an ISO 9001 company making perfumed candles for export market, employing a 1000 personnel. Company has done very well and has opened another unit in Gujarat. Presiding over the destiny of this unique industrial enterprise is Mr Varkady Krishnamurthy Talithaya a former MRPL/ONGC Sr. Executive. Of course, his former colleagues were surprised how a task master, calling shots, in a Navarathna unit like ONGC/MRPL, could engage himself with a smaller organisation like Primacy. But they were not aware that, the owners of the Primacy were just waiting for Mr Talithaya to retire. Retired but not tired, VKT couldn’t refuse their offer when they agreed for all his terms including freedom from restriction to his freedom of movement. That’s the value VKT holds in the market.

Having born in Dec 1944 at Manjeshwar in Kerala, young Krishnamurthy completed his degree in St. Aloysius in Mangalore and Masters from Loyola, Madras. Having begun as a management trainee in Hindustan Steel, the present SAIL, he grew in position. Worked in many blue chip companies, last being MRPL/ONGC,  in the outskirts of Mangalore, where he retired as Sr. Vice President (P & A). While in MRPL, he made the name of MRPL synonimous with service to all and sundry by reaching out to every section including infrastructure to schools etc. The lasting contribution of MRPL/ONGC under his leadership was the upgradation of Surathkal crematorium in providing the ultimate dignity to the dead and gone. Reacting to crematorium work some had quipped “Death has never been so beautiful and tranquil as in Surathkal crematorium. It made a death a pleasure”.

The same streak of reaching out made VKT readily accede to our request to become the part of our editorial board, some years ago. He continues to give his intellectual inputs in the evolution of I & C as a responsible and responsive journal of a different kind.

Intelligent, articulative and knowledgeable, its always a pleasure to meet him. We wish him good health and happiness. We take this opportunity to tell all our patrons that we do need participative support. Kindly respond positively - Editor

NB: Respecting his wishes we have not put his photograph.