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higher grades and shared every happiness in my life getting
children, promotion, buying house etc .No birthday of my
daughter or son would be celebrated without a greeting card
from Namasivayam.Even I may forget my wedding day but not
my friend!

I could notice within a short time that if we could treat our
juniors in rank and not in age with due respect to their
talents,intelligence,ability the promoted officers would bear no

grudge against their superiors though much removed by age.
What makes for success of us is confluence of right time, place
and right amount of effort. Compulsion also determines
whether we move up or get into situation of no escape during
which time opportunities slip from our hands. So the bard of
Stratford on Avon says through Brutus in Julius Caesar :

There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.

I know Sri.Sadasivam who did M.Sc , probably in Physics who
remained initially as Inspector of Post Offices before finally
retiring as Postmaster,Thanjavur.May be his family
circumstance or adequate level of motivation was such that he
could not but work to a goal that depended on available
quantity of time. As Shakespeare observed we must seize the
time by its forelock and attain our goal. If we can adopt such
attitude towards our colleagues and subordinates they will also
have their self pride protected from being trampled away. Once
their ego is satisfied and they feel we are prepared to treat them
as our equals we will succeed in our enterprise.

My experience in RMS,’M’ Division was one extended spell of
happiness. We underwent training under Mr.C.Ponnurangam
who was I inspector RMS. Mr.C.Ponnurangam was a lively

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