સ્મૃતિશેષ રતિભાઈને…
વડીલ વડલા સમા, પકડી હાથ દોર્યો મને.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn!
Hippocrates, Greek Physician, c. 460–c. 370 BC

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between,
Hamish Hamilton, 1970, p.17