Manmohan Bishnoi — "Manu" to everyone who knew him — was one of the greatest humans many of us will ever meet.
Every room he was in, in real life, or as the man who must have had the largest phone bill in India because he was never off the phone, or in a Zoom — he was in. He was a larger-than-life human who instilled a level of confidence in everyone he spoke to.
Brilliant, funny, brilliantly funny — and the SMFA. There was not anyone who met him and wasn't better off for it. His love and hope for all people was evident in everything he did.
He lived by the motto that Everything Is Possible, because for him, it was. A man who played outside of the box of life, showing people that when you do things just a bit differently, it opens doors that open more doors. He had no ceiling, and he removed ceilings for everyone who let him.
A man who lived every day by ETISPO. A man who built a tree for shade for others to sit under long after he will be gone.
In his name, ETISPO directs funding to schools, students, and learning hardware in and around Hisar — the part of India where Manu grew up — so the same kids he might have taught get the lift he gave so freely.
Let's keep planting trees.