Heartfelt Condolences to Mr. Ram Narayanan

[Om Sharma]

Dear Shri Ram Narayanan ji,

We are saddened to hear the news about losing your beloved wife. 

On behalf of Brahman Samaj of North America (BSNA) and Global Brahman Confederation (GBC) we send our heartfelt condolences to you and your family. 

We pray to Almighty Bhagwan Vishnu to grant peace to the departed soul and strength to you and your family to bear this pain.

You and your wife have been doing a great service to Indian community here in the US as well as Internationally. We appreciate it and pray that you continue to have the strength for this great cause.

Regards,

Om Sharma

Dr. Om Sharma

Chairman, Board of Trustees

Brahman Samaj of North America (BSNA)

 

Executive Vice President

Global Brahman Confederation (GBC)

Tel: 908-359-3348

 

From: ramnath narayanan <ramnath....@verizon.net> 
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2015 8:42 AM
Subject: My wife's death

Dear Friends:

 

Many weeks have passed since the sad death of my wife  Loral Alberta on June 17, 2015. The shock had stunned me into a deep silence!

 

Loral and I have spent a sweet and wonderful almost 30 years together. There was nothing we enjoyed as much as each other's company! Even when we just set on a sofa and did nothing. I dare say we were exactly made for each other!

 

If we are reborn in this world, and are required to make our choices once again, I have no doubt whatsoever that I will choose Loral, and only Loral, as my wife and Loral will select me, and no one else, as her husband.

 

She did tell me more than once that she waited unmarried for 36 years plus before she met a traveller like me from a far of country -- 8000 miles away -- to tie the knot! All because she couldn't find a single suitable American!

 

She emphatically embraced her Indian family and was fascinated by India and Indian culture.

 

She and I travelled extensively within India and she maintained a close relationship with my mother who passed away in 2005 at the age of 95. She wrote long letters to my mother and my mother liked her for her willingness to share. She called her "Shanthi" -- the Sanskrit word for "peace" -- because how at peace she seemed while interacting with the family and the rest of Indians!

 

It was indeed a treat watching Loral -- a Bible-believing White Ango-Saxon Protestant American -- discussing spiritual matters with my mother -- a fairly orthodox Indian Hindu swearing by the Bhagwad Gita -- without a shred of bitterness but trying to understand each other's position.

 

Loral worked with me from 1999 till 2013 in tirelessly promoting the cause of friendship between the United States and India. She maintained the US-India Friendship's website and wrote most of its copy for 14 years. All this while she was employed as Marketing Manager of a company in Buffalo. (On November 17, 2006 SAJA -- the South Asian Journalists Asociation of New York had said:"Narayanan is a photo-shy retiree living in Buffalo, but among Indians he is one of the most influential grassroots activists in America, exerting a considerable impact on Indo-US opinionators inside the Beltway. His activism has mirrored, and helped define, the increased political sophistication of Indian-Americans in recent years." It also carried a tribute by the current American Ambassador to India, Rich Verma who was then senior national security advisor to Senator Harry Reid. This is what he said:"Congressional staffers are always trying to get up to date, and non-editorialized information on pressing issues That’s what Ram’s listserv assists with." Seehttp://www.sajaforum.org/2006/11/ram_narayanan.html).

 

Not only was Loral a talented web-designer, but she had a natural aptitude for music, playing the flute and teaching at a community school in Buffalo for many years.

 

A strict vegetarian for much of her adult life, Loral was an ardent animal lover. We were proud parents, over the course of our marriage, of three dogs and at least a dozen cats, often taking in strays and abandoned pets, and finding homes for the few we couldn't keep.

 

In October 1998 Loral was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer which had already metastasized to her lymph nodes. She continued working full-time through her initial treatment and during each of her successive treatments when the cancer reappeared, and only stopped working full-time in January 2014, a full fifteen and a half years after her initial diagnosis. In early 2005 when the cancer had reappeard spreading widely across her body, her oncologist had given her only a fifty percent chance of survival. And yet she survived and lead a reasonably good quality life for many more years. She remained zealously independent and reticent to ask anyone for help continuing to drive herself  around until three months before her death on June 17, 2005.

 

Loral was particularly warm and loving towards her family, whom she adored and who adored her. She was quick to laugh, easy to like, and remained modest and self-effacing, never pretending to be better than anyone or entitled to anyone's deference. To me she was a goddess personified!

                

Best regards,

 

Ram