Full text of Rahul Dravid's Pataudi Memorial Lecture in New Delhi.
Sree Sreenivasan recalls his encounters with the pioneer of sound who passed away on Friday and gives a sense of how many lives he touched -- in big and small ways.
'The unique achievements have been made by engineers from small towns who have had a non elite upbringing and who have grown with the programme,' says R Aravamudan, one of the pioneers of the Indian space programme.
'In her insecurity, she destroyed the institutions of democracy,' says Khushwant Singh.