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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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