Jan 13

 Attended a lunch get-together of some members of 'Dons club'of D.J. hostel, University of Allahabad in the house of Prabhat Mehrotra, IAS (Rtd). Dev Prakash Khanna IPS (Rtd),  Mahesh Saxena, Professor (Rtd), Engineering college Srinagar,could join. Ramesh Tiwari, a retired Professor oF IIPA could not come due to sickness.The club became defunct afer we left the hostel. It had, as far as i can remember, 12 members. We would meet once a week and one of us would read out a paper followed by discussion. The paper had to have an original idea. I remember to have presented a paper 'A point of view' in its meeting. It had 1000 words. It did not say anything new. It argued in simple language for doing our part in society . Later i submitted it in a competition of essays. It got first prize. It was printed in the hostel magazine . We shared memories of our stay in the hostel from 1956 to 1962, over 6 years.
Of the 12 members,three had died and one each from Lucknow, Jaunpur,Faijabad, Delhi could not come.

           Prabhat Mahesh Sudhir DP Khanna DNS Shrivastava
Quotable Quotes :"The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them." Swami Vivekananda