Rana Arun Kumar Singh
Rana Arun Kumar Singh, 53, passed away on August 12, 2022, in Pearland, TX. He was born in India on August 1, 1969, and completed his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from BHU, India. He worked at Baylor Medical College as an Assistant Professor, where he pioneered in gene editing research. He enjoyed playing flute, loved listening to music, was passionate about computers and cooking. He was a devoted father and a caring individual, who valued honesty and went out of his way to help people around him.
In celebration of his life, there will be a service for his final life journey on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, at 10 a.m., with cremation to follow at 11 a.m. at Crowder Funeral Home in Pearland, TX.
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To Rama’s family and friends:
I’m so sorry to hear about his untimely death. We worked together for many years, and Rana was always a good friend. He will be missed very much by all that were close to him.
Frank
It’s very painful. He was very nice and kind person, we were shared very precious moment together. My heartiest condolences to him, God give peace to his soul.
Sat sat naman.
Our condolences and prayers.
To his wife Sweta, Son Ayush, Family and Friends,
I am sorry to hear about Arun’s untimely demise. He was a very dear friend, we were lab mates during our Ph.D. program at BHU. After that we again happen to be together at Houston during our Post doctoral research. For me he was very special, we could bond together due to our common liking for music, sher-o-shayari, and more so he was from my native place Bihar. He was a wonderful and kind hearted man. We friends would miss him immensely. I pray to God to rest him in peace and give strength to his father, sisters (back at home), his wife Sweta and son Ayush, to able to cope-up with this pain. May God Bless.
Rip. It’s very painful. He was role model of nagwan & Rana family. My heartiest condolences.
We lost a great Scientist
Our condolences to the family.
Raji and Sriraman.
My deepest condolences to you & your family . Stay strong .
– Vandhana Ramamoorthy
I am wordless, can’t believe it. He was very nice and kind person, always ready to help. We had wonderful time together in Houston. My heartiest condolences!
Rest In Peace! Om Shanti!
Painful to see you so.
Goodbye dear friend Rana!May God provide peace to your soul. We will miss your presence.
it is very sad to witness the untimely demise of Rana ji. He happened to be my immediate senior in the BHU lab. From Day 1 we joined BHU, he came forward to all kinds of unconditional help. Later we also overlaped in Houston and spent a memorable time. It is the time when we have to bear this loss and satisfy ourselves with whatsoever memorable moments we had together. My heartfelt condolences to Shweta ji, Ayush and the entire family. May God give them enough strength to bear the loss. Om Shanti Shanti Peace to the divine soul from entire Bharti family.
I never thought I would have to bid Adie to my dear friend and younger brother. I pray that his atma attain moksha. Om shanti
Rana Arun was so full of life as I remember. Feeling really sad seeing him like this. The silence is deafening. We will miss you! RIP !!
RIP and condolences for the family 🙏
Just learned of the sad news of passing away of Shri Arun ji. Our sincerest condolences and prayers for Sweta and family to have strength to live through these difficult time in your lives and recover. May Arunji’s soul Rest In Peace! May God bless the family!
Shila Auntie and Nagraj Uncle
It was really very painful & surprised to know his sad demise. He is the pride & role model of Rana dynasty’s. This is truly unbearable loss. May God give peace to his pure soul.
Sat sat naman.
It was heartbreaking to hear about the demise of Rana from this earthly world. He was my guru Bhai. We shared lab and mentors during our PhD program at the school of biotechnology, BHU. We shared many precious moments of our life journey overlapping in the lab. He was always cheerful and impressive, whether discussing science, music, Shayari, or life lessons. He was kind and helpful. He was the only one who offered the “Anil and Alok” duo to stay the first night in his dorm at Dalmia hostel on our joining BHU as research scholars. He fought for us with the warden of the hostel and succeeded in having our rooms allotted to us the next day. We were the two Delhiites who joined the PhD program at BHU on the same day. As time passed, an intense but sublime relationship of love and hate developed among the three of us. We were the only ones from the lab to participate in the marriage of Rana’s sister. Rana was a good cook. His Litti Chokha was delicious. In the hostel mess, we savored “Rana chutney”, the recipe of which was created by him. Rana was a man of many tastes and a fond lover of music.
Many a night, on the roof of our hostel, he would play the flute, and “Anil and Alok” were his eager audience. He would take us to classical music concerts at Sankat Mochan Temple. It was there that I first listened live to the Santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma and developed a taste for it. Rana had multifaceted talents. Watching him indigenously make bamboo flutes from scratch, with holes drilled precisely for flawless notes, was fun. He gifted flutes to both of us as parting gifts in 1998.
Time flew by, and I did not see him again until New Year’s eve of 2017. He welcomed me dearly at his home as if we had never parted. One day he expressed his wish to go deeper into the science of MHC polymorphism and TCR repertoire. He thus joined my laboratory of lymphocyte function to explore his flavor of immunology at the beginning of March 2020. Unfortunately, soon after that COVID-19 pandemic started, and he fell sick. He returned to Houston in May 2020 to come back when the pandemic was over. He will not come back. Only his memories will survive.
I pray for the departed soul of Rana Arun, and my condolences are with Shweta, Ayush, family, and friends at this time of grief. Om, Shanti, Shanti, Shanti!
Anil Shanker
My condolences. Sorry to hear about Rana’s untimely death.