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the financial help from my elder sister celebrated the
marriage of my sister for which purpose I sought transfer
from Bombay. Soon after the wedding it occurred to me my
elder sister and my grandmother were direly in need of
change of place after previous year’s bereavement with the
loss of my uncle. So I planned a long road tour by my car in
which my grandmother, mother, elder sister my wife and our
two kids ,my younger brother besides Rajaram my man
Friday from the days of Coimbatore were all accommodated

in the Premier President Fiat car. We took the highway
connecting Chennai –Trichy-Madurai halting at places of
religious importance to offer worship at the nearby temples.
When we turned from the highway into an interior road
hemmed on both the sides by paddy fields I met a risky
challenge to my driving abilities. When I was driving on the
narrow road I noticed a truck coming down upon me
menacingly. He didn’t show any sign of caution while
driving past me and almost by the skin of my teeth I could by
clinging to the edge of the road inch forward but not before
the truck scratching on the right side door of the car.

Towards the end of my Kalpakkam tenure a tragedy marred
the otherwise peaceful course of life in the family of
Mr.C.Ponnurangam. He did not get back to normal life after
disruption of marital life that occurred a couple of years ago.
One morning when I was getting ready to go to office I
received a phone call from Madras that Mr.C.Ponnurangam
was no more. I immediately took the vehicle to Madras and
located the Royapuram residence of Mr.C.Ponnurangam .I
could hardly believe myself that my friend of eternal smile
and jocundity was lying inert from a sleep from which he
would not return. The anguished cry of his children,
particularly the youngest daughter and most attached to him,
Tara wept inconsolably. The sight moved me so much that I
made a determination that I would wipe her tears to the
extent possible by remitting RSs.200/- every month till her

scar was healed by the hand of Time.

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