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retrospect my posting in Bombay was entirely due to Divine
providence as my tenure in Bombay and Mr.Yagnanarayanans’s
increasing closeness with me was wholly to change the course of
life of the latter.Mr.Yagnanarayanan was at this time going
through the worst phase of his domestic life.His youngest son
Ramesh was suspected victim of cancer of the colon.My friend
needed a firm base in Bombay to provide treatment to his son
aged 13 or 14 years.H ealso needed philanthrpic support from his
contacts who would buy kits to enable my friend’s son to make an

easy and hyegenic by-pass to provide outlet for his biological
waste through a surgical sac attached to his colon.Pending a
durable arrangement for Ramesh’s stay I offered to put him up in
my Anand Bhavan quarters on Warden Road.He was a great
company to my 2 year old daughter.Ramesh was a precocious
child.H e seemed to be interested in all intelligent activities like
cricket chess or word play, etc.Meanwhile Mr.Yagnanarayanan
suggested I should discuss with my boss ,himself on depuation
from Customs and Excise Department.He was very keen on his
regular posting in Bombay mainly from his son’s medical
attention angle.For, the Tata Memorial centre a pioneering
institution which specialised in cancer therapy was ideal refuge
for young Ramesh.Mr.Panchappa, for that was my boss’s name,
was himself keenly aware of his wife’s treatment at the Centre
could not but empathise with the sufferings of my friend .He got
my friend’s request examined and provided him a lasting solution
by posting Mr.Yagnanarayanan at BARC Laboratory.Cruel it may
seem the efforts of my friend to wrest his young child from the
jaws of death could not bear fruit and despite Herculean efforts to
take his son to UK for further treatment went in vain.

Though treatment to Ramesh proved futile and my friend lost his
dear son he recouped himself and continued his social activities as
before true to the dictum neither pain nor pleasure should
overcome us.I think my little contribution to mitigate his loss must
have weighed with him in the scale of our friendship that before
he breathed his last he had passed on the significant aspects of
our friendship to his only surviving son working in New Jersey

as Scientist.The latter when he visited Chennai to perform the
obsequies he made it a point to meet me in my house and asked

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