Veteran author and Gujarati columnist Father Carlos Gonzalez Valles SJ, popularly known as Father Valles passed away on Monday, November 9. He was 95 and breathed his last in Spain. A Jesuit priest born in Spain, he was a Mathematics teacher in Gujarat. He wrote extensively in Gujarati, English and Spanish. He translated many mathematical concepts into Gujarati and coined terms for them. Father Valles was a dear friend of our Publisher-Editor CB Patel and a close ally of the ABPL Group.