Stalwarts

         Founder members -  Late Shri Gyan & Avinash Pandit

Views on Lt. Gyan Pandit

GYAN PANDIT A MODERNIST WITH INDIAN CULTURAL ROOTS
   

Among his various qualities as a person, I was most impressed by his       

1. Erudition and clarity of thought

2. His dedication to the task at hand and his systematic and perseverant pursuit of causes that he chose to work for

3. His  humility  and   nurturing  approach to help people achieve their true potential Gyan Pandit combined in him a rear blend of basic Indian culture value and modern and futuristic orientation. While he was a  scholar  of  Sanskrit and Persian  his   approach  to the problems that he heaped with was always scientific and retinal.
                       - Jag Mohan
                         New Delhi

LIFE WITH GYAN
 

I can hardly be expected to give him a certificate but others have written about the qualities of head and  heart,  his  achievements  and  contribution to human welfare and happiness. A charming person, distinguished  scholar,  a  multi-linguist, Gyan was a dedicated world recognized activist for consumer welfare, health care. Youth programs and environment causes.
                    - Avinash  Pandit
                    

"A  FRIEND, PHILOSOPHER  AND  GUIDE"

Gyan Pandit, of course, when asked as to what is that he was doing as a consumer activist, would replay  I am trying to draw lines on water". We enjoyed our work and sometimes got encouragement for our efforts. Mr. Pandit put a lot of heart, energy and hard work in collection data on various subject like ,  the  Drugs  Policy,  the  G.A.T.T. proposals, the patent laws; conducted surveys on choices of consumers  in  urban  & semi-urban areas. Compiled the information, produced papers and presented them at international forum and conferences " Gyan Pandit " will always be remembered as a diligent worker not hogging the limelight but keeping in the background and quietly spreading light from behind.
           - Mr. Anar  S. Vijayakar
           

"A WREATH  OF  MEMORIES  BEFORE  GYAN PANDIT"

If you ask me to define a gentleman I would confidently say " A Person like Gyan Pandit " I knew Gyan  Pandit  for  over  25  years  I  admired his keen intellect, his scholarship, his wide reading, his analytical mind, his dynamic humanism which he exuded so gracefully, his sympathetic response to the  world  around  and  above  all  his most balance and matured understanding of the problems and issues. In 1967 I had built a house in Delhi and applied to DDA for a completion certificate. Promptly came  a  reply  from the officer (Building Section) Written in very personalized and sympatric attitude which  started with a congratulation for building owning own house in Delhi further it went on to define the  formalities  required  to  be  fulfilled  to   acquire a  completion certificate from DDA and assuring sympathetic  attitude  to  words  me.  For the  first   time  I  saw a government communication which addressed  the  citizen with respect and made him feel that the administration was his friends not his adversary
                    - Prof N. N. Pillai
                     

"GYAN MY SCHOOL CHUM"

I vividly recall the years 1936 to 1938 when Gyan Pandit and I studied together in the S. D. High School,  Lahore.  He  would not open up with all the class fellows and was quite choosy in making friends.  Both  of us were slightly shy by nature and may be that is why we were attracted towards each  other .In  school, he used to be conspicuous by his dress. Even from a distance he could be recognized in his long buttoned-up coat and white Amritsari Pajama. Brought up in traditionally rich ‘Sanskaras’  Gyan  all through treated me as his ‘Guru Bhai’ and gave me love and affection much more than one gives to his real brother.
                  - P. S. Mehta