Dear Bhargav,
Today is my Birthday! and that's a double occasion of this beautiful school we so highly wished, both you and me!
I remember a few years ago when I gave, at your demand, an unexpected conference at the Govt. Institute of Printing Technology (GIPT), Mumbai, I told you that it was a real need and demand in India for a School to teach not the old obsolete silkscreen technology, but the really modern high tech Screen -printing in a dedicated College and Training Centre.
You did it by creating DMI in the honour of your father! And I can only say Bravo and to be glad if the support of the so called Guru of Screen-printing as some of my Indian friends name me to my honour my modest contribution to the development and improvement of screen-printing in the world and mostly in a country dear at my heart, I mean India.
As you know, for me, screen-printing is not an industry, but a fantastic technology that is used by many industries with so many old, new and not yet discovered applications. In future, as well in graphic, as in textile and industrial applications, depends essentially of the quality of image or any other use of screen-printing and this result can only be achieved by going through an exceptional level of education.
That is my total belief, and I also believe that DMI is exactly the ideal tool that can be used to achieve goal which, if I look to the fantastic potential of our dear technology in India, will need not only your own efforts, the ones of DMI as an "Institute and Institution" = even better than a "Simple School", but also the help of all the Indian Institutions and of the FESPA, are deeply concerned by the success of such and initiative that we support, encourage and help with all our power and all our possibilities.
As you know, again, a big part of my heart belongs to India and also to you, my spiritual son and pupil in screen- printing and you can then understand that I shall continue to make, in the limits of my possibilities and power of course, all the efforts, all the efforts to push DMI to the top!
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