Brijlall Ramguthee A GREAT philanthropist. A humanitarian. A good-hearted person. That’s what his first name, Deenadayalan, means, when translated from Hindi.
It was perhaps the last that epitomised our former colleague, Deenadayalan “Deena” Pillay, who succumbed to medical complications, which eventually led to a heart attack, at Parklands Hospital, Durban, on Saturday morning. He was 59.
As we bade farewell to Deena at a crowded Clare Estate Crematorium on Sunday, he lay serenely in his coffin, adorned with, among others, a moustache (he was often clean shaven with occasional sprouting), and would no doubt have offered a chuckle or two, had he been alive, as speakers delivered their eulogies.
A series of health problems eventually led to him being medically boarded in June 2018. But before then, he was a…
