{"id":1096,"date":"2011-07-01T06:22:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T06:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2011\/07\/01\/in-memoriam-3\/"},"modified":"2020-02-27T22:36:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T18:36:15","slug":"in-memoriam-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/in-memoriam-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Keerodhur Ramsurrun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><u>In Memoriam<\/u><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Par Shakuntala Boolell<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Keerodhur Ramsurrun, l\u2019homme pieux, avec la vocation d\u2019aller jusqu\u2019au bout de ce qu\u2019il entreprend, s\u2019est \u00e9teint dimanche 26 juin 2011 \u00e0 103 ans. Centenaire en 2008, il continuait \u00e0 vivre avec une simplicit\u00e9 digne des anciens sages. Petit-fils d\u2019un travailleur immigr\u00e9 originaire du village de Dannorao, de l\u2019Etat de Bihar, Keerodhur Ramsurrun se met \u00e0 a eu \u00e0 travailler dur t\u00f4t pour subvenir aux besoins de sa famille et devenir propri\u00e9taire d\u2019un lopin de terre, comme nombre de descendants de travailleurs immigr\u00e9s. L\u2019achat de deux arpents de terre \u00e0 Bois Jacquot, Amaury, est le fruit de ses efforts. Ses trois premiers fils, Jaychand, Pahlad et Lekhram grandissent dans ce district, lieu qui n\u2019est pas en marge des remous d\u2019id\u00e9es et des changements sociaux.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Keerodhur prend conscience qu\u2019il faut aussi se joindre au mouvement du grand syndicaliste Hurryparsad Ramnarain. La marche des protestataires vers Port Louis risque de lui co\u00fbter la vie. Fort heureusement, malgr\u00e9 un coup violent re\u00e7u \u00e0 la t\u00eate, il r\u00e9ussit \u00e0 s\u2019enfuir. La lutte sur divers plans devient alors constante chez lui. Il prend une part active dans la cons\u00e9cration de la victoire de Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, d\u2019Harilall Vaghjee et d\u2019Aunauth Beejadhur en 1948.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Un an plus tard, il d\u00e9m\u00e9nage pour habiter \u00e0 Bris\u00e9e Verdi\u00e8re, lieu de naissance de ses deux autres fils, Madhookun et Bhuvesh. C\u2019est en 1950 que Keerodhur et son \u00e9pouse Soondree (n\u00e9e Parboteeah) et leurs cinq fils s\u2019installent \u00e0 Vall\u00e9e des Pr\u00eatres o\u00f9 la culture mara\u00eech\u00e8re est plus profitable. Le taux d\u2019analphab\u00e9tisme \u00e9tant \u00e9lev\u00e9 au d\u00e9but du 20e si\u00e8cle, Keerodhur compte parmi ceux qui n\u2019ont jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 sur les bancs de l\u2019\u00e9cole. Or, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 sa vision \u00e9clair\u00e9e, il tire profit du r\u00f4le actif des ba\u00eetkas o\u00f9 ses fils et, plus particuli\u00e8rement, Pahlad sont initi\u00e9s en hindi. Avec le temps, ils grimpent les \u00e9chelons et, \u00e0 leur tour, ils contribuent \u00e0 satisfaire les ambitions des enfants bard\u00e9s de dipl\u00f4mes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Telle est la vie d\u2019un homme remarquable. Que son \u00e2me repose en paix.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>* Published in print edition on 1 July 2011<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Memoriam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7793],"tags":[1377,611,8279,22093,88],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-memoriam","tag-aunauth-beejadhur","tag-hurryparsad-ramnarain","tag-in-memoriam","tag-keerodhur-ramsurrun","tag-shakuntala-boolell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MT-Logokk.jpg?fit=1200%2C880&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-hG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}