Keyur’s father’s sister (Daksha foi) sent us an email correcting the info provided earlier. Keyur was taken to the hospital as soon as possible (maybe half an hour), not longer as was stated.
For those of you in Austin, Texas, there will be an informal memorial service for Keyur on Tuesday, September 9 from 3-5 p.m. at SSB G1.310 on the University of Texas campus. Garage parking is available nearby at SWG.
We haven’t been able to contact all of Keyur’s friends, as it’s difficult to get contact information. We specifically haven’t been able to contact any of his coworkers at Apple or Microsoft. Please inform any of his friends or coworkers that might not know of his passing.
If you have any comments, you can leave them with the comments others have left or email us at friends@keyurp.com. We will post more information as we have it.
Posted by ramk at September 3, 2003 09:24 PMPhew. I just got the news from Stacey (our boss at UT) today.
I finally got to know Keyur about a month before he left for India. We had worked in the same department at UT for over a year, but due to our differing tasks and hours we didn’t ever get to connect, until one day in May. I luckily had to go down to ATEC, where he worked, and ask him some questions for a project, and after having finished the work we spent the rest of the day hanging out. Cassi and Dan were there, too…do you guys remember that day (and the Fat Tire? ;p)? That was so fun. After that day I always came to his office to see if he was in. Usually he was in, and we’d talktalktalktalk.
Keyur’s brilliance and easy connectivity inspired me - we could have conversations that flowed for hours, from one subject to another. Few people in this world are like that, and when I find people like him I want to make sure that we stick around in eachother’s lives. I think it was really good that we met when we did: he was leaving soon for India and was looking for something he couldn’t quite explain - perhaps a new source of inspiration -, and I was all set to travel through South America all summer for very similar reasons. We were both so excited about what lay ahead for ourselves and eachother. I was very excited about our new friendship.
Unfortuntately all that potential, all that could have been shared, analyzed, and laughed about between us now suddenly cannot be realized. I feel this loss deeply like a physical wound. I’ll have to make do with the little bit of his magic that I was fortunate enough to take part in, and for that I am truly grateful.
From this terrible thing I have learned that every little moment in life is a miracle, something to be fully appreciated as it unfolds. I take comfort in the fact that I was fully present and happy in the moments I shared with Keyur, and I now look at my surviving friends and family in a whole new light.
Thank you, Keyur…I hope you are at peace, wherever you are.
Posted by: Margaret Heyn at September 4, 2003 01:20 PMHello Friends,
I’m also Keyur’s aunt (Foi). My name is Hema and Keyur called me “Hemi”. I accompanied Keyur’s parents to India, returned on 09/06.
On behalf of our entire family, I want to thank everyone for the prayers and support given us in the most difficult time in our life and the outpouring of your feelings and love for Keyur. Yes, indeed he was a special person, a kind and very loving soul. He was very dear to all of us in a very special way. We are all still struggling to believe that he is gone. I feel like it is a nightmare and I’ll wake up and all this will not be true. But I did say goodbye to him. Only explanation is that GOD wanted him more and GOD is the supreme. That Keyur is in his hands now - may be with special powers to do all that he couldn’t do before he left us. He had a great trip in India. He met everyone he wanted to, visited all the places he wanted to and enjoyed all the food he had planned to. Everyone he met, was touched so deeply. If this had to happen, I’m glad that his wishes were fulfilled.
Hemi
Posted by: Hema Parekh at September 10, 2003 12:49 PM