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Ok! The most famous people have been listed out here (including Mr. Sundar Pichai and Ms. Indra Nooyi). I would like to talk about a famous academician, the late Prof. Dr. G. V. Loganathan, a professor and researcher in Hydrology; one of the 32 unfortunate people who lost their lives in the Virginia Tech Massacre.Source - G.V. Loganathan | We Remember | Virginia TechBackgroundBorn in Gobichettipalayam, Erode and with alma mater from PSG College of Technology & Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Loganathan received his doctorate from Purdue University. He was a highly regarded professor in the Via Department (properly, The Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering). of Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech (properly Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University). A well respected and loved Professor in his department, he had around 150 peer reviewed publications to his credit. His study on a heuristic optimization algorithm called ‘harmony search’ and its application in Pipe Network Design are well received in the Hydrology community.Something about the massacre:The massacre was effected by Seung-Hui Cho, a Korean-born American national from the state of Virginia. He, who had past medical history of anxiety disorder killed 32 people with two guns in the hall 206, where Prof. Loganathan was conducting a lecture. The report submitted after the investigation blamed the Institute for not being proactive and branded Cho as a monster. On the other hand, critics like Kenneth Westhues cried conspiracy - in his page, he argues that the term ‘defective character’ was used as a cover-up to downplay the actual reason, which was the impact of the interactions he had with others in the campus. He further adds that Cho was constantly mobbed and humiliated and was left in solitude. He argues that this could be a reason for Cho perpetrating this killing spree.The OutcomeAs a response to this massacre, Virginia plugged the sink by restricting legal purchase of guns (the details of which are irrelevant here) by people legally judged as mentally unsound unless they are tested by NICS.Every year, Virginia Tech conducts a ‘Remembrance’ event, the details of this year can be found here. According to the page, the Professor is survived by “his wife, Usha, and his daughters, Uma and Abhi”. Found these photos in the gallery -Source: We Remember | Virginia TechSource: We Remember | Virginia Tech

Pain will not kill you. It’s really that simple. No one ever died from pain.Despite what the Purdue Pharma marketing has told you- sickness causes pain! You will feel discomfort, you will feel pain, you will be distressed by it and all of that is perfectly human and perfectly NORMAL!!!Suck it up. Change your expectations. They lied to you when they said sickness should be totally pain free. Life is real, it is urgent and it sometimes involves pain. Pain reminds you that you are alive!

In the 1990’s Purdue Pharma hit on a time-released narcotic they called OxyContin. By convincing doctors that OxyContin was “safer,” offering financial support and special perks to family physicians who were willing to push the drug, and investing millions in a marketing campaign that claimed OxyContin was not only harmless but beneficial, Purdue Pharma cornered the pain pill market. By 2003, Purdue was selling $1.6 billion of the pill annually.OxyContin is manufactured by Purdue Pharma of Connecticut. Whereas previous oxycodone drugs contained only 5mg of the active ingredient, OxyContin offered 20mg, 40mg, 80mg and, until recently, 160mg. It is coated in such a way to release the drug over a 12-hour period, and it has undoubtedly helped restore a semblance of normal life to thousands of cancer patients and hundreds of thousands of others in chronic pain. But addicts soon found that by scraping or sucking off the outer layer, they could experience all 12 hours-worth at once. It was, the addicts said, a rush like heroin, and every bit as miserably addictive. One person dies every four minutes due to drug and alcohol related causes. This is the world Purdue Pharma built through decades of pushing lethal narcotics into the American health care system: narcotics that it insisted were perfectly safe for anyone to take.Purdue Pharma is accused of marketing the prescription painkiller as nonaddictive because it was a pill that, when swallowed, slowly released the drug over 12 hours. However, users soon discovered if they crushed the pill the drug lost its time release qualities and created an instant high. This is the world Purdue Pharma built through decades of pushing lethal narcotics into the American health care system: narcotics that it insisted were perfectly safe for anyone to take.Purdue’s products created chemical dependency where it didn’t exist before. Young children, seniors, and people with simple injuries or dental work got hooked on the drug. The highly addictive medication’s “time lapse” mechanism didn’t work if the pill was crushed or chewed. Unsurprisingly, many people who discovered this developed advanced problems with opioids. Some, like me, ended up using heroin and even injecting the drug. In 2007, when federal prosecutors took the company to court, the punishment was minimal. Purdue pled guilty to “mis-marketing” OxyContin and paid a mere $600 million in damages. That’s a tiny fraction of their annual revenue: an insult to the families of the people who were killed by Purdue’s drugs in the name of corporate profit.Purdue sells $1b-worth of Oxycontin a year, but is under pressure to tone down its marketing. West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky are pursuing class action lawsuits against the pharmaceutical company for the costs incurred by addiction. The firm is also being privately sued by addicts in Virginia.Purdue lit a fire of addiction with OxyContin that spread across this state, and Kentucky is still reeling from its effects.” Purdue initially offered the state half a million dollars to settle out of court. The final settlement was for $24 million. Again, that’s pocket change for a company like Purdue. And, once again, Purdue did not acknowledge wrongdoing. The agreement says Purdue Pharma will pay Kentucky $12 million followed by another $12 million over the next eight years.(July 17, 2017) OxyContin manufacturer Raymond Sackler died at the age of 97.) The same day, 91 other American's died due to lethal overdoses of the pill that made Sackler a billionaire. Sackler died in comfort, in a hospital bed, with the best possible medical care, “following a brief illness.” Sackler is survived by his wife and two sons. Who is standing at the graves of the other 91 people who died July 17? Sackler, whose company is estimated at $13 billion, will be buried with dignity. His life will be celebrated by his friends, associates, and loved ones. We can’t say the same thing about the dead Americans he built his fortune on. OxyContin robbed families of their parents, children, neighbors and communities. This medically sanctioned genocide has put more Americans in the ground this year than the entire Vietnam War. Opioids like the ones manufactured by Purdue Pharma kill at a higher rate than guns and car accidents combined.The 91 people killed by opioids, including Purdue Pharma’s bestselling product? Who knows. Maybe they died alone, or at home. Maybe they died in the backs of ambulances, while EMTs tried to give them a life-saving dose of Narcan. Maybe they faded out on their parents’ couch and never woke up. Maybe they died in their cars, parked in front of their place of business. Maybe they passed, never knowing exactly what was wrong with them and why they couldn’t seem to feel right without the white, green, and blue narcotic pills their doctors gave them.Raymond Sackler died with American blood on his hands. Since the 1990s, he’s made billions of dollars selling a product that is known to be dangerous, highly addictive, and even deadly. He got to live over 97 years on this earth, yet his product, OxyContin, created a drug epidemic that is now the leading cause of death for people under 50. As he is laid to rest, he will be remembered as one of the primary actors in creating a health crisis that will have unknown, frightening consequences for generations in our country.$13 billion. That’s what the deaths of millions of men, women, and children were worth to Sackler. It was never about helping people. It was never about medicine. It was all for revenue.May God have mercy on his soul. Because he certainly never had any for us.