COMMENT | My uncle G Krishna Iyer drew his last breath yesterday evening. He was nearly 90.

I don’t expect you will know him, but if I tell you that he was headmaster of Penang Free School from 1983 to 1988 that might ring a bell.

Or you might know other family members, for his brothers included former Primary Industries Ministry secretary-general the late GK Rama Iyer, former Bar Council president Sulaiman Abdullah (born G Srinivasan Iyer) and Australia-based doctor Dr Lakshmanasamy Iyer.

Personally, I knew him as a warm-hearted, witty, wonderful man who was kind to me at a difficult time in my life...