Soliloquy

Four years ago, on this day, our Entrepreneurial Development and Business Ethics professor at Bhavan’s Vivekananda College Mrs Abhignya Banerjee, was taken away from us after a fatal road accident in the suburb of Yapral in northeastern Hyderabad. 

Time passes by quickly, but the grief stays with me, and many of my friends, who remember her every day. She was a warm, comforting and extremely loving person, who always had time for her students. Taken away at the young age of 31, she had given birth to a child barely a year ago, who, I suppose, has little recollection of what his mother was like. 

I empathise with her husband, Mr Banerjee, who is about the same age as she would have been, and cry tears of suffering whenever I think of the little boy she left behind. Mrs Banerjee lit up any class that she gave and was a huge part of building bridges in the student-faculty relations at Bhavan’s.

My poems Pie and Croissants, In Memoriam, A Eulogy, and A Eulogy: A Year On, dedicated to Mrs Banerjee, have all been my ways of coping. I will continue to mourn her and grieve her loss, but will also recount vividly the joy she brought into my life, as will everyone who knew her and was fortunate enough to have been touched by her grace.