V Kalyanam, Gandhiji’s last personal secretary, dies in Chennai

CHENNAI: V Kalyanam, the last personal secretary of Mahatma Gandhi, passed away in Chennai on Tuesday due to age-related ailments. He was 99.
Kalyanam’s younger daughter Nalini said he breathed his last at his residence in Padur at 3.30pm.
His last rites will be held at Besant Nagar crematorium at 1.30pm on May 5.
Kalyanam, who was born in Shimla on August 15, 1922, was associated with Mahatma Gandhi from 1944 to 1948, according to Kalyanam’s biographer Kumari S Neelakandan.
"Kalyanam was in Sevagram Ashram in Maharashtra and was engaged in compiling the letters to Mahatma Gandhi in various languages. He had been assisting the Father of Nation for four years," he added.
Kalyanam was with Mahatma Gandhi when the Father of Nation was assassinated in New Delhi on January 30, 1948.