I had a good fortune of covering VK Murthy felicitation programme once. After he got Dada Saheb Phalke award, many organisations started to felicitate him. Some out of respect while many for mere publicity. But Murthy sir obliged all of them. This assignment in particular, gave me heartburn. The felicitation programme was on third floor of Kannada Sahithya Parishath. Lift had conked out that day. The organisers could easily have shifted the event to the available halls on the ground floor. But they made Murthy sir climb three floors. Adding insult to injury, Murthy's specially abled daughter Chaya, too was made to climb three floors. They made it happily though, without any issues. But, I felt for them and the story appeared on page 1 of DNA on February 1st 2010 edition. Hats off to Murthy sir and his daughter for their simplicity, which is difficult to find in the new the generation celebrities. RIP V K Murthy sir.
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