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shifting to Madras as Director Western Region I could buy a plot of
land .Here too I abided by my wife’s advice to plan our house in the
central locality of Egmore from where my office –Office of
Postmaster General was hardly 2 kms.My wife used to rake
legitimate pride in her selection of the site where we could build a
compact house according to our design.

It was typical of my wife’s accommodative nature when she didn’t
pull a long face when I decided to move to Bombay to join the

Department of Atomic Energy as Deputy Secretary along with my
younger sister leaving behind my daughter and wife to be picked up
after a month. The plan was to look for a job for my sister while
simultaneously register her name and other details at the Bombay
Employment Exchange .I knew with her post graduate qualification
which would fetch her bonus marks to be added to the aggregate of
th
marks for the 10 Class and Graduate degree my sister once
registered would easily qualify in the selection of Assistant job in
Postal Service in Maharastra Circle. So when in a month’s time that
circle advertised a few vacancies in the different divisions my sister
could submit her application duly supported by employment
exchange registration and get selected to a post of Assistant in
Byculla sorting office. Had I not had a free hand I would not have
settled my sister’s career and the credit goes to my wife who
cooperated with me.

My wife joined me as planned after a month She very much liked the
location of our residential quarters . Anand Bhavan. We were
accommodated in a spacious first floor flat called Bhavan located on
the prestigious Bula Bhai Desai Road known earlier as Warren
Road. We had for company the famous Breech Candy hospital .The
celebrated Lakshmi Temple was just around the corner. We three of
us were regular in our evening visit to the temple and participated in
the evening Aarthi .I used to take my 2 year old daughter to my office
on India Gate at Old Yacht Club. My daughter immensely liked the
sea front and the Marine Drive .My wife liked to do the vegetable
shopping at Nana Chowk or Byculla market Crawford market as the
fancy took us .She also liked to visit the Haji Ali near Worli Sea face.

I never felt bored in the hectic life we had at Bombay..My wife liked
to hear the waves crashing on the boulders in the backwaters just

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