10th & 11 August

10th:
Completed morning program. In chamber from 12.15pm to 3.15pm. Talked to Ruchi about situation in London. She said that residential areas were not affected. Even then as a precautionary measure she has brought provisions from Tooting market for one week. The trouble in London started after the death of a British citizen of Carribean origin allegedly in Police firing. A number of shops were looted. 3 persons also died. It is said that these riots are worse than 1985 riots. With the induction of a big number of policemen on patrolling and arrests, things have improved. Retired to sleep at 10.20pm.

11th:
Completed morning program. Visited RML hospital and met Dr.AK Agarwal. He examined Venita and suggested a number of tests. We had Costa coffee in Bengali market on Tansen Marg. In chamber from 11.15pm to 2pm. Venita came after shopping and we left for home at 2.15 pm. Retired to sleep at 10.45pm.

4th to 9th August

4th:
Visited CGHS for collection of medicines. In chamber from 1pm to 3.30pm. Sh.S.S.Sharma dropped in 2pm and left at 2.30pm.

5th:
Visited CGHS. In chamber from 1pm-3.30pm. Pradeep came. We discussed Yash's condition. There have been no blood transfusion for last two months and platelets for 3 months. It appears bone marrow has started forming, though slowly. According to the physician attending on him, the progress is slow. But Dr.Ojha, the Hematologist, of Fortis noida,who is attending physician of Yash, said that more ATG injections were not required at present.

6th:
Visited studio for processing photographs for travelogue. The MTNL gave internet connection for which I had applied on 3rd.

7th:
Visited district center Janakpuri. Dinesh Varma an old friend of mine who retired as vice chairman CAT Ahmadabad, rang up from Lucknow where he is settled.

8th:
On 8th Visited Mahesh at Ghaziabad. He lost his son in a motor accident near Jaipur on 7th. He had lost his another son only a few months back. Very sad. The office was closed.

9th:
Observed ekadashi fast today. Got the rifle license renewed. Sh.Tiwari,Addl.CP,Licensing, helped in expediting it. Retired to sleep at 10.30 pm.

6th July to 3rd August.

On 6th could go only for walk after an over 8 hour sleep from 9.30pm of 5th July to 5.30am.The biological clock appeared to be adjusted to the new timings.In UK we used to sleep at about 11pm GMT ,i.e, 4.30am IST & get up at 6am GMT, i.e, 11.30am IST. Visited dentist. On 7th visited PNB to collect FDRs and thereafter CGHS to collect Venita's medicines. In chambers from 12.30pm -3pm. On 8th in chamber from 11.35am-3.15pm. Joined the batch lunch in the CSOI.A director of a construction company, Sh.Saxena, on a reference from Sh.Tarun Varma, Advocate, my brother-in-law, took appointment to meet me along with his MD & another Director at 11.30am to discuss a case. I arrived chamber at 11.40am. In the meantime the MD decided to go to another advocate. On 9th attended a get together with Sh.Subhash Saxena. Pramod, Barun, Bablu, Anand & other members of the family joined in to bid safe journey to Pragati going to USA for MBA course and join her husband. Visited Bablu and Silku. Silku and Ritsy constructed a big house with a basement, ground floor and another two floors in all 4 floors on a plot of land gifted to Ritsy by her father.It is a very well constructed house with round the clock power and water supply. Both of them showed me all the rooms and floors.We bless them for a very happy living in their new house. We met Ritsy's parents also. Alenah did not give me a lift and refused to come to me. I am sure she will come to me when she is older. She is only 10 months. On 10th spent the day at home. On 11th visited SBI PBB for renewal of FDRs. In chamber from 1.15pm to 5pm. Sh.SS Sharma visited after lunch and we were together for over 1 hour. Visited the dentist. Had a cup of coffee in Mc.Donald's. Pilku informed that Abhishree had won in 2 races in the sports meet of her school and that Amolikaa was the house captain. On 12th visited CGHS. In chamber from 12.30 to 4pm. On way back visited Hanuman temple in Chanakyapuri.On 13th again visited CGHS after dropping Venita. In chamber from 11.30am to 5.50pm. A partner of a business firm from Hyderabad met and consulted about a criminal case against its MD. Venita came at about 5.50pm. On 14th in chamber from 12.15pm to 3.15pm. On 15th in chamber 12.15-4.30pm.Had a cup of tea with Sh.S.S.Sharma in his chamber. Visited the dentist and thereafter Oberoi hotel for a conference. On 16th could not sleep after 3am.Had slept at 10.45pm on the previous day. Just a little over 4 hour sleep. Completed morning program after a long gap from 3rd June till date. Could not do the morning program in UK except of course for long walks. Venita went to Gurgaon at about 11am to meet her brother who had come for medical check up along with his wife. Pravesh who had referred the client of Hyderabad firm who met me on 13th and said that I should have charged him much more than what I had charged. I told him that I don't believe in charging the clients heavily, and that I was happy with a reasonable amount. "What I will do with too much of amount?",I told him. He did not like it. Venita returned from Gurgaon at about 8pm. On 17th spent the day at home. On 18th deposited FDRs for re-validation in SBI Vikaspuri. In chamber 1pm-3.45pm. On 19th visited MGF mall Saket. There is no Starbucks coffee shop here, in fact Neha sent me a sms that Starbucks chain had not yet come to India. Visited the dentist. On 20th visited CGHS and consulted doctor regarding rashes on Venita's body. She said these could be due to allergy. In chamber from 1pm-3.45pm. On 21st visited Nokia care center Lajpat Nagar as I was unable to send sms/mail to anyone. Later Jaymith solved the problem. And I dint have to spend money unnecessarily as suggested by Nokia service center. In chmaber from 12.30 to 1.30 pm and later from 4pm-5pm. Dr.AK Lal came and checked Venita and her rashes could be due to allergy and that these could be chicken pox if any of the eruptions had water in them. On 22nd in chambers from 11.40am to 3.30pm. Mala came to discuss her husband's case in the cash for vote in the parliament case. On 23rd bought a pair of Reebok shoes from a Janakpuri store. On 24th spent the day at home. On 25th visited Vikaspuri SBI. They have deducted tax from the principle amount of a fixed deposit and reduced it. It is not done. I will write about it to the Chairman, SBI. Visited Safdarjung hospital. In chamber from 1pm-4.30pm and later 6pm-6.45pm. Mala came. Discussed her case. Sh.Barman, Advocate, who has been engaged developed viral, could not meet him. On 26th in chamber from 1pm-3.30pm. Visited Hanuman temple in Chanakyapuri.On 27th in chamber 12.30pm to 4pm. Met Sh.Barman, Advocate, along with Mala and others. On 28th studied arbitration papers sent by scope. In chamber from 1-3.30pm. On 29th visited Safdarjung hospital and thereafter CGHS. In chamber from 1pm-3.30pm. Vikas called and informed that he had become a Senior Lawyer from this day. On 30th Bablu came bag and baggage. There were some misunderstandings between him and Neha. Venita took him back to Gurgaon and returned home at about 7pm. On 31st spent the day at home. On 1st August visited RML for an appointment with Dr.AK Agarwal for Venita and took it for 11 August. Visited CGHS. In chamber from 1pm to 4pm. Vikash met at Oberoi hotel. Touched my feet for blessings for a successful professional career as a Senior lawyer. Visited dentist. I suggested to Vikas to undertake Vipassana course. On 2nd August met Dr.Sundeep Bansal, Head of the Cardiology department, Safdarjung hospital. In SBI PBB, I was advised to take a tax saving deposit FDR of Rs.1 Lakh, which would save tax amounting to Rs.12000/-. Venita came and we went to Sirifort for DRK's wife's 2nd death anniversary from 6pm-8pm. Chitra Roy, a devotee of art of living, presented touching devotional songs.On 3rd August visited CGHS to get approval for tests and collected FDR from SBI. In chamber from 1.15pm-3.15pm. Retired to sleep at 11pm.

In UK from 13th June to 5th July 2011

13th :
Reached Visitors' lounge of Terminal 3 of IGI at 10:45 a.m. Neha and Babua met us.Babua told me to take out a bottle of Tropicana juice from the refrigerator .I put a tenner for it but it was not sufficient. Instead I got half-a-liter bottle of mineral water. I must learn how to take out bottles from the refrigerator after putting requisite money into it so that I can meet grandchildren's demands. Said bye bye to Babua and Neha and checked in Virgin flight no.VS300 to London. As we were Upper Class passengers (There are 3 classes in the Virgin : Economy,Premium Economy and Upper class), a young girl filled up our immigration forms and guided to the lounge of the Virgin Atlantic.Pilku arranged the tickets for us with points, earned by him in air journeys now and then. We had light lunch and tea. Before that I had a glass of red wine (Berry's Shiraz 2009 California). Venita objected.In the meantime Pilku's phone came and he told his mother that I should not be allowed to take drinks as these did not suit me. I liked Sufyani paneer and mashed potato preparations. Kashmiri pullow was excellent. We boarded the plane at about 1 p.m. A good 5 minute walk from the lounge. I had apple juice in the plane.It took off at 12:20 p.m. The journey was quite comfortable.Stewardess Neha Choudhary took care of us.We had side by side cabins where we could lie down and sleep.I promised Neha to write a line to the Airlines in appreciation for her excellent service. We arrived Hethrow Airport at 6:50 p.m after a journey of a little over 7 and a half hrs. It was broad day light in London.My watch still had IST and showed about 0010 hours of 14th June. The temperature was 21 degree Celsius . Very pleasant. Pilku had arranged taxi which took us to Southfields where he lived. He himself was in Nigeria on the day.An hour journey to Southfields was pleasant. From the sky, London looked a slum but it is clean and well laid out on the ground. Met children and Ruchi.We were thrilled to see each other.Amolikaa took me to each part of the recently renovated/reconstructed house.She showed us the living room.Abhishree was busy doing her home work there. I sat near her on the floor and helped her in homework for sometime.Dining room has granite floor.There is a wide platform with water connection (hot,cold for washing & another tap for drinking), arrangement for dishwasher, power point for heating water, provision for preparation of tea and for children to take breakfast and meal sitting on especially provided chairs for them. A small sofa set is also there. Then there are drawers to store kitchen articles and other provisions.There is a small lawn with slide, monkey walk,a spongy platform to jump etc. After showing the ground floor, she took me to the first floor which had two bedrooms and a sitting room.In the second floor,there are two bedrooms, occupied by two grand children. Each floor has a well provided toilet as well as store rooms. The toilet in the 2nd floor is used by kids with a designer shower. I asked Amolikaa, "Could I have a shower in your toilet, whenever I liked?". She said,"Of course." I was quite happy with the conducted tour of the renovated house by her.Retired to sleep at about 11pm GMT, i.e ,5:30 am of 14th in India. We are retiring to sleep after more than 24 hours. We had got up at 4.30am on 13 in Delhi. Our biological clock will get adjusted to the new timings within a day or two.

14th :
Blessed Abhishree on her birthday. She was born on 14th June,2002(Friday)here in Wellington at 6.55pm GMT,i.e, 11.25pm IST. I had written the following poem on her 1st birthday, 14/06/2003 :
On the first Birthday of Abhishree
A granddaughter was born on this day a year ago.
We named her Abhishree.
In physical form she was like her father
In spirit goddess Lakshmi
With her came fortune, good luck and jubilation.
A Shandar Beti of Shandar parents.
She smiles like a mystic.
Her eyes are like black lotus.
She enjoys music.
Like fish she is happy in water
Stroll in her pram is her only hobby.
All of us love her, bless her on this day.
May she live long shining like the morning star forever,dazzling & beautiful away from darkness of evil.

(DNS Shrivastava)
14.06.2003
We planned to come here on this day to bless her.

Visited Amolikaa and Abhishree's schools. In Abhishree's school attended a music lesson being given by her teacher.Abhishree sang 'Rainbow' song to the accompaniment of the piano very well.She can develop this aptitude and be a very good singer. I was impressed with her effort to sing a song with a classical note. Went to the local post office near Southfields tube station and changed dollars into pounds. The rate was $1.81 for one pound. Changed $150 into pounds. Read out the news of the day to the children. It had been a practice with me to prepare a brief of the news of the day, which children could understand and read out to my sons when they were as young as Amolikaa and Abhishree . The urge to read out the news of the day to children has come back in me and I am restarting the process. When the sons grew up , I made them open a register each and write under the following heads.
1)News national/international.
2)Sports.
3)Thought of the day.
4)A joke.
The boy who consistently wrote well during a week was given a reward. It was quite often won by Babloo as far as I remember. It had created an awareness in the children about contemporary happenings and helped them later in life.I could lay hands on one such register,written by Babloo.I felt quite nice to see it. Pilku/Ruchi could follow this practice when children grow and can write the register on their own.
Watched children jumping on the spongy platform in the lawn. Retired to sleep at 10.30pm.

15th :
Abhishree did not go to the school. She complained of stomach pain. Amolikaa went to the school along with another girl of the vicinity. Amolikaa cried because Abhishree was sick. After a lot of comforting by Ruchi and a word by her teacher in the school, she was composed and sat in the classroom. Had a cup of tea in the cafeteria of the Wimbledon park. Accompanied Ruchi to the tennis club where Amolikaa and Abhishree were being coached. Went to Wimbledon court to buy an adapter so that I could charge my cell. International roaming in my cell has been discontinued. A new procedure has been introduced. One has to give a copy of the passport along with a security deposit of Rs.3000/- to activate it. I got my passport scanned and sent it to my daughter-in-law, Neha, with a request to deposit it along with Rs.3000/- for activating International roaming. It was activated on 22nd June. My cell was without network from 14th to 21st June.In between I got some calls but could not make a call or send a message.The receipt of calls started after my daughter-in-law made a request to the Vodafone customer care over phone .Vodafone activated International roaming in my cell when she deposited a copy of my passport and Rs.3000/-. Retired to sleep at 10.30pm.

16th :
Visited Mall at Wimbledon and obtained Orange connection in Venita's phone. Her phone also was without network before I got Orange connection buying a new sim for 10 pounds. After the Orange connection, I could make calls. But calls to Pilku in Nigeria were very expensive. A couple of calls to him exhausted 10 pounds. I had to recharge the sim by another 20 pounds within a couple of days.
In the evening when I was going out for a walk Amolikaa said, 'Why don't you put on wind cheater of your son. It will protect you from rain and cold.' The advice had come from her when she observed that it was cold as also likely to rain. I carried out her dictate. Retired to sleep at 10.30pm.

17th :
I accompanied Ruchi to children's schools. Venita could not go out today due to bad stomach. I had Starbucks coffee in the restaurant near Southfields tube station. Went for a walk in Wimbledon park. It was full of families with children playing in fountains of water,slides, monkey-walk, seesaw etc. It is a daily scene. You see more people on weekends. While I was taking round of the park two young white girls (probably in their teens or tweens)solicited if I needed their company. I replied in the negative and kept on moving. They two did not stop. In 2007 also a lady solicited me and I had said "Sorry, not interested". I was reminded of my wife's observation that these days young girls tried to woo older people for easy money and less trouble. I told my wife and my daughter-in-law about the episode. They heard it with quite a bit of interest with no comments or advice.It is a sorry state of affairs for the society where young girls solicit for easy money. May be our ethical fiber has weakened.Retired to sleep at 11pm.

18th :
Got up at 6.45am. Children were still sleeping. They get up at about 7 or 7.15am. It was broad daylight. Brought a copy of The Telegraph. Had a glass each of lemon water and later Sikkim tea. Went out for a 40 minutes walk in the Wimbledon park. Later I repeated it in the evening too. There was lot of activity in the park. Small tents had been put up by persons, who lived there overnight. They all had come for witnessing Wimbledon matches. The number of these colorful tents would be about 300 with about 600 people living therein. Improvised toilets had been setup. There was a moving canteen where you could get your breakfast, lunch and dinner. An elaborate arrangement for the safety and the health of the people living in the tents had been done. At least over 500 cars of different make were parked in the lawns. A police station had also been setup and parts of green fields covered with wooden planks for people to queue up to the Wimbledon courts comfortably. The Wimbledon matches start from 20th June. All these arrangements are for the matches.I had a keen desire to meet the police officer i/c but could not.In the tents were people mostly white,some black,some of mixed races and Asian origins,all living with complete harmony and understanding.They were speaking different languages.As immigration from European countries is unrestricted,you see a lot of people from these countries,speaking their languages.Majority of them,however,were speaking English.Abhishree and Amolikaa understand and speak only English.Football coaching to young groups was going on.People from the tents were also playing games to keep themselves engaged.
Visited Fun-Fare near Amolikaa's school.Could not go about in the Fare due to rains.There was a big park nearby with a Victorian style restaurant. It was fully booked. We could not get room. We went to the Southwest mall and had lunch in a Mexican restaurant.Children enjoyed food.I did not enjoy it so well.I was told its non-veg items were good. We are vegetarians.Bought some gifts for children,including a small aquarium.Tried to send a sms to Pilku.It bounced.Later I could send the following sms after evening walk:"Had walk in the park for 50 minutes.Having a cup of tea in the cafeteria.Amma went to Sainsbury's and brought some fruits and other things. Children are playing. Ruchi must have got up. On week days she has a tough schedule of work. Wish to watch Wimbledon matches on any day upto 3rd July. 4th we leave.PAPA." This sms could perhaps go because Neha had a talk with Vodafone service center at Gurgaon.

19th :
Read the following headline in a local daily,"Muslims integrating better than Christians." in British Society. All England club is celebrating 125 years of Tennis Championships. Visited Fun-Fare along with children. The children went about from one play/game to another. The Fun-Fare had all the paraphernalia which any Fun-Fare has.Had food in a Chinese restaurant. Went for a walk in the evening. Visited internet cafe, located in the post office of the area. Scanned a copy of my passport and sent it to Vodafone as well as to Neha. After receipt of the passport Neha could deposit a sum of Rs.3000/- and thereafter my international roaming was allowed by Vodafone. At 10pm there is still light in the sky.
Amolikaa was not sleeping even after 10pm. As they have to get up early to get ready to go to school, it was necessary for her to go to sleep. I went to her room. I said,
"Why are you not sleeping?" She told,"A monster is throwing water at me." I told,"I will sleep with you." Babua has a toy which, he says, throws water in great speed. He also points it towards you and you have to react as if you are drenched to the skin.The children have their own make- believe-world.To be able to tune with them,you have to be its denizens.Afterwards I noticed Amolikaa had slept while talking to me. I came down to my room in the first floor. Amolikaa and Abhishree have one room each for themselves in the 2nd floor, which are built in the loft of the house, besides some space for stores. Retired to sleep at 11pm.

20th :
Visited Oxford.It took us one and a half hour from Southfields tube station.Oxford is a historical city with 38 colleges. Ceremonies of all colleges take place in the Central Hall including conferment of degrees and other honors.Had a boat ride too.We had taken a tourist bus for a round of the city.We were briefed about each place by a taped description of the places.We got down near Trinity College and took a round of it visiting its four quadrangles, gardens, Chapel and the Hall.We had a cup of coffee in a nearby cafe.As we came to the alighting place near the Trinity college to join Miss Pratima Pandey,a tourist,to whom we got introduced during our journey in the train from King'S Cross station on the National Line to Oxford,we found her talking to a tourist guide.In fact we had asked the guards at the entry to the Trinity college about guides. Surprisingly they said that there were none. We took the guide to take us round the other colleges of Oxford. He took us to the New College, which is now nicknamed as Harry potter's college. The film had been shot in its premises. We were shown a big & old tree under which particular scenes of the film had been shot. He showed us its chapel, dining room, the restaurant & classrooms of the students. The students attended the classrooms with black gowns and ceremonial caps. We paid the guide £5 each. We walked over to Magdalen Bridge from where we took an half hour boat ride. It was quite refreshing. We boarded the the bus which had taken us round the Oxford city on way to the Railway station for journey to London at about 6pm. We arrived South-fields,London at about 8pm.I wanted to take the address of Pratima who owned a company and was located in Noida at King's Cross station when we changed lines in the tube station to different directions.In fact she looked into my eyes and silently communicated for it,but i thought Venita might take it otherwise and ignored her offer. Retired to sleep at 11.15pm.

21st :
Today was the longest day of the year. From 22nd, the day would start diminishing and night increasing. Visited South Side Mall,Venita picked up quite a few things from £1 shop, where we found that lower middle class and old people were shopping in big number. She purchased quite a few things. I sat along in the Costa Coffee shop and waited for her. Later in the evening I went for a long walk in the Wimbledon park. After I returned, Abhishree said that she would go for a walk with me.I took her to South-fields market.The weather is so good that you can keep on walking here without getting tired.Abhishree kept on hoping from one shop to another for over 45 minutes. At last she bought two Easter eggs.
During 2007 visit she would not accompany us anywhere without Ruchi or Pilku. Amolikaa did not allow me even to touch her pram if I wanted to push it. She would like her pram to be pushed either by Ruchi or her maid or Pilku. Now they are keen to go out with us. On another day I had come back home after evening walk and changed over to sleeping dress. Abhishree came and said that she would like to go out for a walk with me. I said that I had changed over to sleeping dress. She did not say anything.But I could see disappointment in her eyes. I said that I would change over to go out with her. She is now 9 years. She is understanding and retorted that it was not necessary. She did not want me to take the trouble of changing the clothes. She is so sweet. I did not insist and told her that we would go out together next day.
On another day she again hopped from one shop to another when she went out with me. She said whether she could buy anything she liked. I said she could buy the entire shop if she liked. The sales girl was amused. Abhishree was impressed. But she knew that I could not buy the shop as I did not have enough pounds. It was a good training for her as she would come across such verbose offers to her from her boyfriends. And she has to be careful and not be impressed with them. I wanted to train her up for future. She is an intelligent girl and understood it. Sent some emails from Pilku's laptop, a beautiful small light weight computer. Retired to sleep at 10.45pm.

22nd :
Visited Cambridge starting at 11am. At Cambridge we took the tourist bus which took us round the city. There was taped description of various places we passed through. It is a much bigger city. We got down near the Law college. But everything was closing. We could not enter the premises. We tried to get a guide to the city but could not. We had to board the tourist bus again and be satisfied with what was being told in the taped commentary of the places it was passing through. We were informed that over 80 celebrities who were alumni of the University had got Nobel prize. We were shown the places where Shakespeare lived and where Prince Edward studied. We saw the young men and women (some of them love_lorn)moving about as we passed through the city in the bus. We returned at about 8pm. Retired to sleep at 11pm.

23rd :
Went to Salisbury's and bought some provisions. Went for an hour walk. Visited South side mall. Venita shopped. I spent time in Costa coffee shop.Retired to sleep at 10.30 pm.

24th :
Had a long walk. Visited Marks & Spencer at Wandsworth and nearby craft shops. Ruchi had dropped us there. On way back we entered the wrong bus paying unnecessarily for the journey back home. We got down and boarded the right bus to Wimbledon. But again got down wrongly at Wimbledon South. Had to pay bus fare again for the journey back home. We thus paid 8 pounds unnecessarily. Ruchi bought us debenture tickets for quarter final matches in the Center Court on 28th. She had to pay in all 1140 pounds for two of us which will be equal to about Rs.70000/-. This is the 125th year of the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon. Retired to sleep at 10.30pm.

25th :
Ruchi's friends came and stayed over for the night. They were class friends in Miranda house in Delhi. Kiran has a lovely daughter,Lakshmi. All children played throughout the day. Ruchi said that Kiran was a beauty of the college.We had a good South Indian dinner, brought from an Indian restaurant. Kiran stays in London and Priti Bakaya came from Brussels. Retired to sleep at midnight.

26th :
Had lunch with the children in the Cafeteria, Wimbledon park. Watched them playing tennis and other games. Venita went to South side market along with Ruchi and children and bought some gifts for them. Kiran and Bakaya went back. Prepared a brief on a Pharaoh, Cleopatra, for Abhishree, who is to speak on the subject as part of her home work in the class. Retired to sleep at 11.15pm.

27th :
Today was Ekadashi and I kept the fast as usual. The visit of Chinese premier to London was described by me in details to the children as news of the day.Retired to sleep at 11pm.

28th :

Visited Wimbledon and watched women's quarter finals between Maria Sharapoa of Russia with Cibulkova of Slovakia. Maria defeated Cibulkova in straight sets. In the other quarter final match,S.Lisicki of Germany beat M.Bartoli of France in 6-4,6-7 & 6-1. In a men's doubles 3rd round match B.Bryan and M.Bryan of USA tied with S.Aspelin of Sweden and P.Hanley of Australia. Later Bryans won Men's doubles in the finals.And in another women's doubles 3rd round match S.Mirza of India and E.Vesnina of Russia beat D.Hantuchova of Slovakia and A.Ratwanasa of Holand in straight sets. There were 60,000 persons watching the game and cheered players for their good strokes and placements irrespective of the country to which they belonged. Very appreciative crowd. Our seats were near the Royal enclosure. We could see Dukes & Dutches,Lords, former PM etc. in the enclosure. After watching the matches live , you don't like watching the matches on the TV.Even though Pilku asked me to watch the matches on TV, I did not. We went round the Wimbledon campus where other matches were being played. There was no restriction to watch these matches. There were restrictions for entry to Center Court where all the finals were held.In court number 1 and 2, only ticket holders of these courts could enter. There are in all 20 courts in the campus. The Centre Court is the only court where the games do not stop due to rains. In other courts the games stop due to rains. If you bought a ticket for any other court than the Centre Court and the games could not be held due to rains, you miss the games and also the money spent on buying the tickets. These were not carried over to next day. Ruchi bought the tickets for Center Court keeping this fact in view. Inside are big restaurants and a sovenour shop. We had lunch in one of the restaurants and also bought a Wimbledon cap. The cap cost us about Rs.900/-. We took it as a sovenour from Wimbledon. Excellent security arrangements were made. Outside the Wimbledon campus we found a row of buses courting us to board them for South-fields on cash payment of 2 pounds for a distance of a little over 1 km for which a bus normally charges not more than 1 pound. I saw the rush of people to the buses, reminding me of India where you find big rush to board the buses in crowded places. Ruchi had an Afgan visitor ,young wife of a minister, who was visiting London and known to Pilku. She wished and talked to me in broken Hindi. She could not speak English. She had a 3 year old daughter ,who talked to me a lot in her mother tongue, which, of course, I din't understand but all the time I was replying to her in Hindi, as if I was understanding her. She left after dinner of Jhatka meat. Retired to sleep at 11pm.

29th :
Visited the tennis club of Abhishree and Amolikaa. I had to escort them from their school to the club and back home as Ruchi got busy with the Afgan guest. I noticed the instructors did not coach the kids properly. They were paid 18 pounds each for training them for half an hour. I informed Ruchi that I noticed one coach spending quite a bit of half an hour talking over his mobile phone leaving the children to play as they liked. After the children finished their coaching, they dumped on me their school bags, water bottles, changed clothes, tennis rackets and other things whatever they had. After taking all of them on me I found my both hands were full along with my shoulders and back. I took them to taxi but could not keep them inside and requested taxi driver to help. He took them one by one and kept in the dicky of the car.I was enjoying the ordeal. I did not have such an experience with my own kids. Perhaps I would never have carried the load had they given it to me. Probably I had a big ego at that time, which would not allow me to indulge and enjoy carrying the load of school bags etc. I had orderlies, but carrying the school bags etc. of grand children was exiting. They are great stress busters.
While going to the tennis club via Abhishree's school the taxi charged me 12 pounds. But for a much shorter distance from the tennis club straight to the house it charged 11 pounds. While the taxi driver,a Pakistani, was taking a longer route, Abhishree told him that he should have gone by a shorter route and that he had unnecessarily taken a longer route. He apologized to Abhishree and said that he committed a mistake. I was impressed with the awareness of Abhishree,despite her being quite uncomfortable with itching of her hair/head due to lice picked up during her visit to Delhi in April. I am informed that now she has no lice and that there is no itching of her hair/head. I told Ruchi to insure her against lice before she took her to Delhi in future.Retired to sleep at 11.45pm.

30th :
Visited Mark & Spencer retail shop at Wandsworth. Venita bought some articles. Ruchi went to escort the Afgan lady to the market and back. Retired to sleep at 11pm.

1st July :
Visited South side market along with Venita. Pilku came back from Nigeria in the evening after a stay of about 3 weeks there. It is good he has come. We are leaving on Monday the 4th. Children will not feel bad now after our going. Bakaya came from London University, where she was doing a course. She stayed overnight and would go back next day.Played a game of golf with Abhishree and Amolikaa in the Wimbledon park. Pilku also came. Wimbledon park has a mini 18 hole golf course for children to play. On way back home I asked Amolikaa if I looked as old as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,who was to celebrate his 90th birthday in a few days. She said,"Not at all. You look very young." I asked her if she was trying to please me. She said," No." I told her that her Dadi told me that I looked much older than my age. Amolikaa did not want to get into controversies and kept a diplomatic silence. Retired to sleep at 10.45pm.

2nd July :
Ruchi and Venita went to South side for shopping. In the morning we noticed that one golden fish had died in the acqairium gifted by us to the children. Pilku did not like to buy fish as he felt bad about their being confined inside a jar. He would rather like them to float in the river with complete freedom. But on insistence of children we had bought one big jar with 2 fish in it. The sudden death of a fish early in the morning was a matter of concern. We thought of children crying as soon as they come to know of it. So I thought of tricking them by telling that I had taken the fish to the Vet (this is how a Vetenary doctor is referred to in London) for medication as it had become sick. In the mean time they went to the schools and Ruchi brought another golden fish and placed it in the jar. The children were very happy to see it and praised me to their friends in the nearby houses for being kind and caring as I had taken the sick fish to the Vet and brought it back. Later I told the fish which I had taken to the Vet had died and Vet had given another fish of the same color. The children put up with the changed version of fish death and were satisfied with our explanation. Retired to sleep at midnight.

3rd July :
Witnessed Abhishree playing tennis. Pilku returned home and I stayed back with Abhishree who wanted to play around. Ruchi's friend George came from Washington along with another gentleman, husband of a class friend of Ruchi. All did a course on Information Technology in London School of Economics together. George must be 6 feet 3 inches, a Tamilian and jet black. He works in IMF.Retired to sleep at 10pm.

4th July :
Had a walk in the Wimbledon garden. Abhishree gave us 2 of her toys as gifts. These small toy horses were her most favorite toys. In fact she went along with us a day earlier to buy some gifts for us, but could not decide. I told her to give us something which was dearest to her. I kept her gifts in my briefcase. At the time of leaving for the Airport she wanted to see them again and asked," Where had I kept the gifts?". I told that I had kept in my briefcase and opened to show the same to her. She was happy to see the 2 small horses well kept in my briefcase. She is highly individualistic. Very often she would tell us to leave her alone. I don't know from where she has learnt this expression but it shows she is growing, intelligent and a loving child.
Left for the airport at 6.30pm along with Pilku. Pilku did the checking and saw us off at the final checking point. We had dinner in the lounge and went round the duty free shop selling expensive leather goods and men and women's clothes. Could not take dinner in the aircraft as we were full. Had a cup of green tea.Retired to sleep at 11.45pm.

5th July :
Got up at 4.30 am GMT and 10 am IST. The aircraft landed before time at 10.30 am. Its landing time was 11am IST. Neha met at the airport and brought lunch for us.. During the day did the unpacking and updating payment of pending bills. Retired to sleep at 9.30 pm.

11th and 12th June

On 11th completed morning program. In chambers from 12:30 to 2:45 p.m. Visited Dentist he gave some antibiotics for removal of the pain in one of the teeth. On 12th the whole day was spent in packing for journey to U.K. Got the two paintings especially packed up to take them to Pilku/ruchi. Retired to sleep at 10:35 p.m.

9-10th June

Completed morning program. Visited Bablu’s office and gave him some papers, clothes etc. for taking home. Venita also met him. Visited CGHS to collect her medicines. She got dropped at Khan Market. In Chamber from 1.30-3.30 pm. Shri S.S. Sharma came and requested to join him over a cup of tea. Could not go. Venita bought clothes from Khan Market and Sunder Nagar market for Ruchi, Abhishree and Amolikaa. I got the air-tickets for journey to London and back. On 10th, in Chambers from 12.15-3.45 pm. The internet became dysfunctional. However could send some mails with the help of Jayanti, an intern and a student of Chanakya National Law University, Patna. Had a cup of coffee in Bikaner wala. Earlier, on way to the Chamber had coffee in the Cafe Coffee Day. Retired to sleep at 10.30 pm.

6th-8th June

On 6th completed morning program. Visited Ajit Singh for repairs to Venita's specs. Thereafter, to CGHS. In Chamber from 12.15- 3.15 pm. GBS Sidhu dropped in. It was agonizing to know that his wife was suffering from cancer. A small tumor was detected in the vein carrying blood to the heart. They have removed a part of the vein and replaced it by another. It was detected after ultra-sound of her abdomen. She had been complaining of weakness in walking for quite some time. GBS also had problem of prostrate enlargement. My late father-in-law had checked about me from GBS who was a UP Carder Officer of the IPS. It is after checking with him he had met me and settled he daughter's marriage with me. GBS has, therefore, a special space in my life. I felt quite bad about his wife's and his own sickness. Picked up Tarun from Sukhdev Vihar. He along with his wife, visited us and after dinner left back to his son by metro to Sukhdev Vihar, a DDA Colony, behind Escorts hospital building.
On 7th, accompanied Venita to a mall in Rajouri Garden. She exchanged VIP suitcase of red color by a purple one. Had costa coffee. Venita bought some clothes.
On 8th, visited Safdurganj hospital. Doctor Puri, a skin specialist, saw Venita and gave some medicines to relieve itching on the left leg. Visited CGHS for medicines and thereafter, Sector-12 market in RK Puram. Could not meet Bablu as he was busy in a meeting. Visited Centre for Sight. Venita's eyes were checked by Doctor Dinesh Talwar. Doctor Talwar has asked me to come again on Sunday, the 12th. He wants to check Venita's eyes again before we leave for London on 13th. I told him if it was at all necessary. He insisted that he would like to see her before we go to London on 14th. It appeared to us that he wanted us to go there on a Sunday so that he could talk to us in details about Arushi Murder case. He is the brother of Rajesh Talwar who is accused in the case. I will again ask him on 12th to exempt us from going to him for a further check up of Venita's eyes. Venita visited South extension market and shopped around. I had costa coffee. Pilku has arranged air-tickets ostensibly against points, but somehow I feel that he has paid over 2 and half lakhs for them. Neither he is telling me nor the travel agent is telling anything. He has already taken big loans and paying interests against them. I wouldn't like him to pay anything for my tickets. Anyway, I have decided to take a fixed deposit of an amount equal to the cost of tickets jointly with him. Retired to sleep at 11.15 pm.

3rd - 5th June

On 3rd visited Ayurvedic CGHS as also CGHS Pandara road. Took permission for one month medicine in advance as we are going abroad. In Chambers from 12.45 -4 pm. Took tea with Shri S.S.Sharma. It was return visit to him in the basement of the Chamber. Attended a memorial lecture in Vigyan Bhavan by Sir Ian Blair, former Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, London. He was quite analytical and advocated stricter laws for control over terrorism. He tried to have the same in London but did not have his way due to opposition by human rights groups. Met SarvShri Karthikeyan, P.C.Sharma, Raja Vijaykaran, Vijayshankar, all ex- directors, CBI. Also met SarvaShri Khandelwal, Ajay Raj Sharma, Chintamani Sharma, Javed Akhtar, S.R.Sharma, Caire, R.K.Agarwal, Balwinder Singh, Sambharaya etc.. Also A.P.Singh, the current Director, CBI. Vikas came and left much before the end of the lecture.
On 4th, visited Punjab National Bank, CGHS Pandara Road, Sundernagar, Khan Market for work. In Chambers, from 1.15 -3.30 pm.
On 5th, my grand-son came with his parents. Spent the whole day with him. I told him the story of the dead Prince, written by Shri Bhagwati Charan Verma in Hindi, which I had read when I was a student of B.A.. Babua liked it. We played hide and seek, search-a-thing in a room, painting and sketching. Venita bought a puzzle for him from a Rajouri Garden Mall where she had gone along with Neha. She did shopping for about Rs. 10,000. At 4.30, Babua said he would go because he had to reach Palms Court Club for swimming. He left at 5.00 pm. Retired to sleep at 10.30 pm.

2nd June

Could not go for morning program. Had to reach the Center for Sight by 8 a.m. Reached there 5 minutes to 8 a.m. Venita's file was misplaced by the reception. Another set of documents were prepared for Doctor Dinesh Talwar to see her eyes. She had been given Avastin injection in the right eye. After that angiography of both the eyes was done on 1st June. Doctor Talwar had to see the reports which went missing. He saw the reconstructed reports and advised medicines. After examination of her eyes Venita dropped me to the Chamber and went back home. In Chamber from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Driver came back around 2 p.m. Back home at about 4:30 p.m. Retired to sleep at 11:15 p.m.

31st May & 1st June

On 31st completed morning program. Visited Safdarjung hospital. Driver went & gave 'Spice', supplement of India Today dated 6th June to Poonam. The supplement contains a write-up on where & how to visit different places in Macau.She is going to Macau for a holiday with her family. She helps me in getting endorsements for treatment in the CGHS approved centers from the consultants.But for her health it would be difficult to get to the consultants due to crowding of patients in the OPD. I had also sent one such supplement earlier.In the chambers from 12.30-2.30pm.On way back visited Hanuman temple in Chanakyapuri area. The temple was closed as it opens at 3pm,& I reached there at 2.45pm.I saw the deity through the caged door.Some could not even be seen. Venita went to Rajouri garden malls to buy some gifts for Abhishree & Amolikaa.
Sh.Atiar spoke & said that I should not mind closure of the case by the client, jointly handled by me with him,that they had paid us well & that we had to go by the advice of the client.I said that what I had minded was the sudden closure of the case by the client without discussing with us.I further told him that I did not take up cases where I found that the client had done wrong things & that money was never a consideration.I further told that I took up cases to ensure that the client got justice & was not harassed by any agency or during their trials.I further told that I had refused to take up cases where I thought the clients were on the wrong side and indulged in corruption or any other criminal activity. But when I took up a case I tried my best so that the client got justice.The case in hand, jointly handled with Sh.Atiar, is closed without its final disposal by the authority. It worries me because the authority concerned may decide to pursue it to the great detriment of the client resulting in perpetration of injustice in the long run. But as it is closed by the client now I have nothing more to do.
On 1st June visited Center for Sight.Venita was given Avastin injection in the right eye at about 12.30pm. We could come away from there at 4.30pm to home. Retired to sleep at about 11.15pm.