Yet, time has its own eternal dimension, and friendships and relationships embody this eternal dimension. For my friendship and association with Professor Ram Reddy has become so immemmorable that, to me, his presence is never lost. The Memorial Trust that we are inaugurating today is but a manifestation of that presence. True greatness consists in the everlasting nature of one's ideas and contributions in the service of humankind and Professor Reddy's services to education will not only be remembered for a long time to come, but are such that will continue to yield fruit to succeeding generations. Thanks to the objectives of the Trust, Professor Reddy's educational vision will continue to light the path of educational expansion in this country.
Visions have a disconcerting tendency to blind the visionary's conception of reality.
Too often, visions become substitutes for lack of real conviction but at the same time releasing inflammable forces in their trail. Professor Reddy was a visionary in a far more constructive sense of the term, blending enthusiasm with pragmatism and synthesising trendy novelties with time-tested notions. Given his vast experience in higher education and his own personality, it could not have been otherwise. And, in this task, he learnt the lesson of tapping the benign and positive sides of human potentialities. His innate qualities of modesty, gregariousness, sweetness of temper and sincerity, provided the inner resources to achieve the highest pinnacle in educational endeavour.