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other devotee I rose from my seat and prayed him to accept the chit I
carried.Bhagawan accepted the chit and passed into my palm some
vibhuti .Later when he went near where my wife was seated and
when she began to hand over her prayer Bhagawan said in Tamil that
He has already got the paper from someone else meaning myself.
Then He began to materialize vibhuti and handed over it to her
besides sprinkling the sacred ash on her head.

A temple for Ganesa!

There was a golden opportunity to test the religious consensus
among the different groups who came forward to build a temple for
Lord Ganesh. With the help of contribution from the staff regardless
of their denomination a temple was built in the early part of
1994.Later with additional resources collected from the same staff a
gopuram was also put up. A grand ceremony , known as
“kumbabishekam” was also got up. All sections of staff participated.
When Sri.Mahalik, the DG visited Bangalore in connection with
Karnapex 94 the DG was honoured with a silk shawl on his visit to
the temple .Mr.Mahalik also in commemoration of his visit to the
GPO planted a few samplings in the flower bed at the GPO.

My son on the threshold to ph.D in the USA:\

Sri.Mahalik’s visit to Bangalore was the last event I participated
before my transfer on promotion to Bhopal as Chief PMG in HAG
level.But before I left Karnataka circle I had one responsibility to be
discharged. That was to decide on the subject and college in which
my son Chi.Srikant would pursue higher education in engineering
.So both my son and I visited Manipal near Mangalore where in the
REC Manipal Srikant took the entrance examination.In the
counselling held at Bangalore he elected Mechanical Engineeing
available in REC,Rourkela.He preferred Mechanical Engineering to
Electronics availble in a private college in Mysore.His choice proved
to be appropriate as after securing B.E degree he went on to pursue
M.S in Mechanicl Engineering in Clemson University.He completed
successfully his M.S project in 2002.He enrolled for Ph.D in Fluid

Dynamics in the same university and despite his Guide leaving his
university abruptly and so also his Ph.D candidate it should be said

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