New Delhi, March 24 -- Fr Xavier Vadakkekara is no more. A personality who inspired scores and mentored many is gone. He lived a life unlike many others. In death, too, he took a different path by donating his body to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi. A life without pretensions ended without any, in death too.

For me, it is goodbye to an unbroken relationship lasting over two decades with Xavier Achen (I called him so). A couple of years after he took over as the Editor of Indian Currents weekly in the latter part of the 1990s, we started working together in planning and bringing out the magazine, week after week, and it continued for almost a decade (it was an unofficial arrangement as I was working with The Hindu). A...