In Memory of our beloved Yasho Rajya Lakshmi
Lord Shiva, one of whose appellations is Mahakaleshwar, the Great God of Death, has decreed that my beloved wife Yasho should move on in the sixtieth year of our marriage. We wedded as teenagers and virtually grew up together. It has been a unique blessing for me to have partaken of her love, generosity and compassion. She departed surrounded by her loving family including all six grandchildren. While we mourn her passing, we wish to celebrate her vibrant and luminous life as will her numerous friends and well-wishers around the world. As the Upanishad says “May her journey into light be auspicious”.
Karan Singh
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Suresh Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 11:32 am
respected elder brother,
I am much distressed to learn of Maharani Sahiba,s sad demise.Please accept my heartfelt condolence.May the heaven above grant her peace in her present life.Please accept the sorrow with the same grace,which never betrays you.
your affectionately
Suresh
of Kaithi(Katehar),Varanasi.
Dr. Rama Rekha Singh Says:
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:00 am
Dear Dr. Karan Singh,
It is with great sadness that I hear the passing away of Maharani Yasho Rajya Lakshmi. I heard it the very day in New Delhi when I was taking a return flight from a recent trip to India.
We have had the fortune of having you and Maharani ji visit Hamilton and Toronto a few years back and to listen to your wonderful lectures at McMaster University.
You may recall the informal evening at a place of one of our friends in Toronto. I will never forget how Yasho ji spent late hors in the night with a disabled young lady helping her earn to walk again. Yeasho ji was such a simple, charming and engaging personality. My friends still talk about her.
May God bless her soul and may you keep shining as ever with your splendid scholarship, statesmanship and people’s leadership. As I like to say, you always have been and continue to be one of the few shining peronality in India that we can all be proud of.
I send you my sincere condolences.
Best wishes,
Rama Singh
Professor
McMaster University, Canada
Rajan Bhattacharya Says:
June 28th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
My heartiest Condolence & pray for her departed soul to rest in peace.
Gail Fallender Says:
July 5th, 2009 at 6:25 am
To Dr. Singh:It is with sadness that I read of your dear wife’s passing. I remember you as a young man of 17, recuperating from hip surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. I was that 13 year old girl recuperating from spine surgery down the hall. We met only once, while watching a film in the hospital’s theater, on adjoining gurneys. But I remember your traveling companions, a charming general (whose name I do not recall) and a captain from the army. The general, especially, became friendly with my parents, Dorothy and Ira Leonard, and were their houseguests in Allentown, Pennsylvania. And I have somewhere in a cardboard box from my past, a letter and Christmas card you sent me, delighting that young 13 year old girl. And now, reading about your illustrious life on your website, I learn that you have lost your wife. I send you my condolences, across the miles and across the years.
Gail Fallender 4641 Fulton Ave., Sherman Oaks, CA 91423