Swami -  19 years old with dreams in his eyes, a dream of doing well in college, a dream to travel to the USA to study further, a dream of making his parents  proud of him, a dream of …….

Swami – fondly called Appu; also called Saamy by his friends (after the release of a new Tamil movie of the same name)

Swami – quiet but affable, friendly, witty.

Swami – kind, down to earth, concerned about the underprivileged, but  with typical teenage contradictions wore only  branded clothes, Levis, Dockers, Adidas

Swami – loved his grandmother very much, loved her cooking

Swami – liked SMSing funny msgs to his mom and dad

Swami – the last book he read  was :How to make friends and influence  people’ by Dale  Carnegie in which he had made a notation in pencil. It said “Don’t criticize others.”

Swami has gone, but his dreams may yet be fulfilled through all the lives he has touched, all those people who live to see the dawn because of the extraordinary legacy he has left behind by donating all his organs.

Swami’s parents, Mrs. Lalitha Raghuram and Mr. Raghuram - we salute you.