Surekha Pillai, a PR consultant and one of Twitter’s favourites, is no more. After her death on June 11, friends and acquaintances offered condolences and remembered her for her inspirational presence on the microblogging site.
Pillai, who became a PR consultant “accidentally”, managed to become a known face in the fraternity. In one of her blogs, she wrote elaborately about her dreams and how she landed in the profession she never aspired for. In one of her blogs, she described herself as "twitterholic".
"I wanted to be a truck when I grew up. I believed kids grew up to be objects of their desire. When I outgrew that phase, not without heartbreak, I set my heart on becoming a doctor," Surekha Pillai wrote.
However, she learnt and grew while tackling the professional obstacles and she managed to survive in the industry for almost two decades. "Despite all the heart burn PR has given me, if given a chance to go back 17 years, I would flip those yellow pages all over again," she used to say.
Besides losing a colleague, people remembered her warmth and generosity as the tweets dedicated to her suggest.
Surekha Pillai Death Shocks Twitter
Nilanjana Roy, a columnist at Financial Times, expressed her condolences on Twitter as she wrote, “I never imagined I'd have to write this. She was the best of almost all of us, true and funny, warm and real, and she took her blazing anger at injustice and turned it into solid, unflinching kindness”.
“Surekha Pillai. How hard it is to accept this loss of losses,” she added.
Another Journalist, Seema Goswami also shared a tweet, where she mentioned that it’s difficult to accept the fact that Surekha Pillai is gone. “What a cruel loss to her child, her family, friends, and to the world. May her memory be a blessing,” she added.
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