Surekha Pillai was just a tweet away. A PR consultant, who was one of the early people to latch on to Twitter, was a livewire on the social media platform. Across Twitter, #Surekha trended as followers, friends and acquaintances came out to celebrate the person she was.
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In a moving tweet, Surekha said recently, "you see people saying such nice things about people who are dead that it makes you also want to die."
Pillai had over 17 years of experience in the public relations field.
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.
I want to say to you what you would always say when I sent you pictures of nice things : how dare you? And what you always said with such heart: I love you @surekha. Cannot bear that you are gone, beautiful one. pic.twitter.com/SI8pmKWMDR
Deeply saddened to hear about #surekha - when twitter friendships were born, she became a friend to all. A real live wire. What a sad day. RIP
— Shaili Chopra SHE THE PEOPLE (@shailichopra) June 11, 2021
This is the last message @surekha sent me. Knew her only thru Twitter, collaborated a few times to organise fund raisers. Always warm, helpful, frank and funny... You will be missed pic.twitter.com/vw2JO9m3s8
spend the rest of your life telling people who made your life better how you feel about them. make it so authentic it gets awkward. I hope surekha knew how tenderly I felt toward her. feisty funny woman. we had a Mahatma Gandhi inside joke. who will laugh at it on Oct 2?
Pillai was a PR consultant who used to say, she was so by 'accident'. In her own words, Pillai writes, "I wanted to be a truck when I grew up. I believed kids grew up to be objects of their desire." She started her career with React and slowing (along with some struggles) grew in her career. Of the many experiences she had, Pillai highlighted this one in a piece for BlogAdda.
"I continued to learn many things about PR, the toughest of which was the often inexplicable rudeness of journalists." About a second chance to rework her career, she wrote in the same article, "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."
A self professed 'twitterholic' Pillai became very popular on the microblogging site as she was very active, and deeply concerned about many issues including helping others and guiding them.
Pillai made many friends on Twitter. She often said her relationship with Twitter was one of ups and downs. "I have done a few things right and I have messed up a few. I have enjoyed the spotlight that has come my way and there have been times when I have wished for obscurity," she wrote for BlogAdda.
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