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The remaining five months were one long session of lectures,
visits, debates etc. In the middle of this term we had a break
when we could make a quick trip to our native place. Table
tennis was a main source of pastime and entertainment and I
could improve my skills reasonably well.

The Director General of Post and Telegraph issued a detailed
time table of different training segments and Tamil Nadu circle
sent in further elaboration an itinerary of training modules. The
first three months were spent in the company of an outstanding
officer Mr.B.P.Kini, Senior Superintendent, Trichy Division.
He was a model of efficient man management and his
inspection visits were a great source of knowledge. He was
thorough in all the details of postal operation. He having
worked initially as a clerk in the office of Postmaster General,
Madras he wrote and qualified in the Grade A Central services
examination for post office personnel and by virtue of having
qualified in that examination he was directly posted in 1957 as
S.S.P,Trichy. So his erstwhile colleagues had a mixed
relationship with him some proud that one among them became
an officer and others jealous and were waiting for his fall.

When I was in Pudukottai for undergoing training as Postmaster

I had occasion to meet my old college and Geology class mate
Mr.C.S.Rangachari whose parents were in Pudukottai.He
invited me to his house and we talked about our college days
before I returned to my quarters. The Superintendent
Sri.T,S,Srinivasan who wore turban as different from another
T.S.Srinivasan without turban was a best friend of mine. When
I fell sick and was on leave at Madras in our Perambur house he
came all the way to enquire about my health. My training as
Inspector was in Chingleput sub division where I worked as
Inspector I found work interesting and even submitted to my
PMG a proposal to upgrade a branch office to sub post office.

I had for paying table tennis my friend Namasivayam qualified
in accounts. He became such a close friend that throughout the
long period of friendship he followed my progress to different

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