Across Seven Seas and Thirteen Rivers

         Paramesh Ranjan Dhar – An Eulogy By Hirak Sen   [Delivered  at a memorial meeting organized by the Alumni of Imperial College London based in Kolkata (lovingly known as the Old Centralian) o n Saturday, September 9, 2017, in Room #150, at the Bengal Club] I will remember Paramesh Ranjan Dhar, or Parameshda to most of us, as a man 1.       of elegant style 2.       of inconspicuous charisma 3.       of finely tuned interpersonal skill 4.       of charming social skill 5.       of bold romanticism 6.       of outstanding marketing skill, and last but not the least, 7.       of preeminent expertise in pile foundation engineering.   In what follows, I will exemplify these with a few anecdotes from his life that I was a privileged witness to. But before I do that, let me tell you, by way of putting this in a well defined time frame, that he was born on 7th August 1933 and died on 5th August 2017, two days short of his 84th birthday. The year was back i