The Hindu, 2 October 2010
Singapore on Thursday bid farewell to Balaji Sadasivan, an ethnic-Indian leader whose death on Monday was deeply mourned as a national loss.
Balaji was a distinguished neurosurgeon who chose the nerve centre of politics just nine years before his death at the age of 55.
In making that
decisive shift, upon persuasion by his friends, he went by the dictum of “anything worth doing is worth doing well”.
Unsurprisingly, therefore, he quickly gave up the idea of being a part-time neurosurgeon while becoming a passionate politician. The
dual roles, as suggested by some of his friends, won’t do. For him, politics was not as strange as the outer space.
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