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spirit which refused to be dampened by any fluctuation of
               fortune. H e used to accompany me, and my two other
               batchmates S/Sri.R.Narasimhan and S.Brahmanadam on our
               inspection tours. This Ponnurangam had a child’s heart and was
               always ebullious with cheerful spirit cutting  jokes and
               recounting stories real as well as imagined! He was to occupy
               later in my life a greater space not so much for any impact on
               my life but to mitigate a great wound he sustained in his life.


               S.S.P Mysore- My long tenure begins:

               Now that training in different modules was over it was my turn
               to await posting orders. In due course orders  from P&T
               Directorate transferring me to Mysore Division in Karnataka
               circle were received by me. I was happy because there was
               something magnetic pulling me  towards Karnataka. To begin
               with I went alone to Mysore promising my father to call him
               after I located a suitable house.I found there was 2 room
               accommodation in the first floor of a rented building on Vani
               vilasa Road near Lakshmipuram.The ground floor of this
               building housed the Divisional office..The divisional office was
               a compact office with about 20 or 24 staff in the ground floor
               surrounded by a neat garden and it had also had a recreation
               club with provision for playing table tennis.

               But within a week of joining Mysore division news came that
               my father got a stroke of coronary thrombosis  and when I saw
               him at General Hospital, Madras it was a heart rending sight.
               He was prompt with his request that I should do something
               whereby my younger brother could pursue further education
               after SSLC. He had just then passed his S.S.L.C  examination.
               Those were the days when a mere post card in which I narrated
               circumstances in which I attended to my father in the hospital
               and  my request to locate a suitable college for admission to a
               diploma course in engineering would fetch the desired result.
               Mr.Narayana Rao the Town Inspector to whom I addressed the
               card met the principal of National Institute of Engineering

               Myore and got his approval to admit my brother in the civil
               engineering discipline of the college. I after discharging my




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