India, June 7 -- The news of the passing away of former Secretary-General of Lok Sabha was not a surprise to me. After I became the Consulting Editor of the Journal of Parliamentary Information (JPI), I was repeatedly trying to contact him, but each time the call remained unanswered and I reconciled that being an octogenarian in the twilight years, he must be ailing and bed ridden.

My fears were only confirmed. My memory of Dr Kashyap very clearly flashes back when I came to Delhi for my M.A at Delhi University in 1979. After I completed M. A in Political Science from the Arts Faculty, and was preparing for M.Phil at JNU, an officer from Lok Sabha secretariat who met me in brother's house in Vinay Marg, Chanakyapuri, advised me to meet D...