Sri (Mr.) Radha Krushna Mohapatra, an eminent person from Puri passed away yesterday morning due to cardiac arrrest. A practicing lawyer at the age of 74, he was getting ready to leave for another day in KACHERI (court) where he worked for more than half a century, when he complained of chest pain. At hospital he was declared brought dead, apparently passing away due to a sudden heart attack which came without any warning.
Commonly known as Radha Babu, our Radha PIUSA (husband of my father's sister), he was a role model for all of us in our extended family. An extremely rare, honest and upright person - he never compromised with his impeccable ethics in work and life.
A tall, handsome man, a barrister with a deep barrititone voice earned my respect for couple of things - a straight shooter sans hypocrisy who harbored no ill will towards others and a gracious host, a spendthrift known to spend lavishly for his guests and family members with his well hard earned money.
He was not just my dad's Brother-in-Law, also a close buddy of him since the days they were classmates from college days in Puri. To my father, it will be a lacunae forever unfulfilled.
Born in Bira Harekrushnapur Village, one of the famous SOLA SASANA ( the 16 Brahmin dominated villages surrounding the temple town of Puri), he settled down in the temple town, practicing Law. He was also an eminent actor - acted in multiple movies, notably National Award winning 1977 Odia movie CHILIKA TEERE (On the banks of Chilka), not to mention in leading roles at ANNAPURNA Theater (now probably defunct) of Puri.
I stand by my cousins at this time of grief, especially his four children and hundreds of friends and relatives from in and around Puri who flooded the cremation ground of SWARGADWAR (Gateway to Heaven) on the Bay of Bengal to bid adieu to a man of spotless credentials who just stepped into heaven - a place belonging to likes him, persons of impeccable ethics who are rarely born, but earned the right to belong.
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