In loving memory
Anand Kumar
1958 – 2024
passed on Panchami tithi
Anand was a school teacher in Patna for 38 years. He could explain quadratic equations with rangoli and Tagore with a whistle. He grew tomatoes that everyone in the colony stole, then pretended he didn't notice. He held his grandchildren the way other people hold first editions — carefully, and with the assumption that they would outlast him. He passed peacefully in his sleep on Bhadrapada Krishna Saptami, 22 September 2024, two months shy of his 67th birthday. He is survived by his wife Sushila, his children Rohit and Anjali, and four grandchildren who haven't yet realised how much they will miss him.
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53 years. I will read the morning paper to your photograph until I can't anymore. — your wife.
— Sushila Kumar, Apr 18, 2026
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Papa, I finally figured out how the Wi-Fi works without your help. I would gladly pretend not to know if you were back.
— Rohit Kumar, Apr 18, 2026
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He once stayed back four hours after school to teach a Class 9 boy who'd missed a fortnight because his father was ill. Never told anyone. The boy is now a doctor in Hyderabad.
— Suresh Sharma (colleague, 41 years), Apr 18, 2026
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He turned every birthday into a maths problem we had to solve to find the cake. We solved them every year. We will keep solving them.
— Anjali Mehta, Apr 18, 2026
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Dadu, the tomatoes you planted came back this year. Mummy says you would have been very happy. I ate three.
— Aarav (grandson, age 9), Apr 18, 2026
Sir, you told me girls could do calculus too at a time when no one else in our village agreed. I built a life on that. Thank you.
— Priya, his student 1986-89, Apr 18, 2026
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