K S D:As I Knew Him

I had known Prof. K.S. Deshpande since the day we met for the first time under unusual circumstances. It was a hot/cool afternoon in June 1968 in Bangalore. I was engrossed in a book on World War II in the cosy comfort of the then Public Library (now State Central Library) in Cubbon Park, when my friend Mr. D.R. Anandakumar, a former classmate during my P.G. Course in Central College, pulled me out of the library and took me to the newly built Bangalore University Library at the Central College. Along the way, he couldn't stop talking about the person whom we were going to meet.