The day he called happened to be Holi and the offices were closed. And it completely slipped out of my mind. I woke up to the situation when he called me from the airport. He had just landed, he said, and would reach the railway station in half an hour. It was around 6 pm and the train was to leave at 8 pm. I frantically called up friends for help and rushed to the railway station. To my surprise, the Station Master recognized Dr Sharma by name and assured me that a berth would be arranged for him.
Dr Sharma wanted to travel in an ordinary sleeper class in any case. I sighed in relief, bought a ticket and waited for him at the entrance. But there was no sign of him even at 7. There was no mobile phone those days and when I had almost given up on him, wondering what to do, there he was, striding into the station with a blanket slung on one shoulder and a jhola on the other.
To my anxious question, he explained that he had refused to pay Rs demanded by cabs at the airport. He had decided to walk and took an auto rickshaw only when he realised that he might get late. He himself lived frugally and very unlike one of the top bureaucrats. He undoubtedly inspired some of the younger officers, who would not hesitate touching his feet. But he set the bar far too high for most other people.
A consistent critic of state power, the poor and the helpless will miss him. He was educated at Col. After his wife Savitri's death, Panditji built "Savitri Nikunj", in her memory, an exotic garden with indigenous and rare plants and trees at Raj Bhawan in Bhopal. Appointed Governor of Odisha in , during his time in the state, he became patron of many social and cultural institutions.
To develop tourism in Odisha, he suggested that the summer Raj Bhavan at Puri should be converted to a high class hotel for international tourists with facilities for golf, swimming and tennis as well as a large hall for holding conferences. Sharma was also actively involved in the administrative committee of the Hindu Jagannath temple in Puri.
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