5th and 6th December

On 5th:

Completed morning program. Dev Anand's death reminds me of a couple of hours I spent with him on air from Delhi to Mumbai. We were seated side by side, he on window and me on aisle side. He invited me to his place. But I could not go due to my preoccupation in Mumbai. Nusli Wadia was also travelling in the same plane. He recognized me as we met in CBI office Mumbai in connection with investigation of a case. Dev Anand impressed me a lot, he was full of life even at the age of 85/86. He died at 88. I got vibrations of a person who was living a full life, no regrets, no commitments, no desires and a keenness to go on in life as it came and never miss any moment of it. I pray to God for peace to the departed soul.

Visited CGHS. In chamber 12.15 to 3pm. Handed over arbitration file to Advocate Gaurang. Attended a conference in Belveder club of Oberoi hotel with Madhav on a very short notice. He was leaving for the airport on way to Kuala Lumpur. Atiar could not join in in the conference. Visited Gymkhana club. Met Mr.Pandey, who deals with membership. The Gymkhana management has decided to consider membership of Govt. servants even after their retirement of 10 years. This rule will be applicable prospectively and my case will not be covered. I got the call to join the Gymkhana club in 1998, whereas I had retired in 1997. Sapra, Gaurang and Neha called. retired to sleep at 11pm.

On 6th :

Completed morning program. It being a holiday due to Moharram, slept from 11.15am to 2.30pm after breakfast. Venita was preoccupied in organizing Gita Jayanti celebration. She said that the Nepali Acharya of the priest of the society temple would speak on the day on the Gita. She further said that his knowledge was average. He had been called by the temple priest. Venita's spiritual knowledge is of high level. Quite a few residents of the society as also Venita read the Gita. Visited the new mall near the District Center Janakpuri and had a cup of coffee in Cafe Coffee day. It is a magnificent building. Lot of floor space is lying vacant for new shops. The ground floor had astrologers, palmists and a Guru to give diksha. There were lot of people consulting astrologers, palmists and Guruji. I was amused to see it. Lot of people stbelieve in astrology and palmistry. They also want Guru diksha, so that they will have some one to take care of their welfare. They should, rather, take care of themselves. The toilets are not well kept in the building.

Retired to sleep at 11pm.

2nd to 4th December

On 2nd :

Completed morning program. Visited SBI Vikaspuri and CGHS. In chmaber 1.20-5 pm. Had a cup of tea with Sh.SS Sharma. A photograph with the other advocates of the chamber and KTS for inclusion in the New Year card for 2012. Advocated Digvijay and Atiar rang up. Retired to sleep 9.30pm.

On 3rd:

Completed morning program. Today being a holiday, had coffee at Barista. Venita continued to suffer from cold. She is taking antibiotics. She could not attend a get together in the house of Sh.SK Dutta. Ex-Director, CBI, from 4 to 7.30pm. Sapra rang up and informed that Madhav was suffering from cold and we could have a meeting on Monday. Retired to sleep at 10.30pm.

On 4th :

Completed morning program. After breakfast slept from 11.30am-2.30pm. Venita went to attend a wedding in West End hotel in Vikaspuri. I could not accompany her. Tej rang up from Fatehpur and informed that his second son, Prashant had got a UN assignment in Kuala Lumpur. Retired to sleep 10.45pm.

30th November to 1st December

On 30th:

Arrived New Delhi station at about 7.15am. The train was only a few minutes late. Could not go even for walk. In chamber from 1.30 to 5pm. Attended inauguration of the CRPF officers mess. The ARISPO will have its office in this mess. The CRPF officers mess is located in Sector 7, RK Puram in the Northern sector of the force. Met Sarvashree Tondon, Khandelwal, JP Sharma, Gary Saxena, GBS Sidhu, Ratan Sehgal, RK Sharma, DG CRPF, Addl. DG Nayar and others. The Home Minister of India inaugurated the mess. The inauguration well matched with any wedding celebration. The whole area was so much lighted that it gave an impression to a passer by as if some wedding was going on in the premises. Retired to sleep at 11pm.

On 1st December:

Completed morning program. In chamber from 1.30 to 4pm. Attended a conference in Surya Hotel with Madhav, Sanjiv & Atiar from 12.45 to 1.30pm. Joined Babloo in his car on way to Vatika City Gurgaon, where he is living. Attended his birthday celebration. Subhash and his family besides Silku and his family and some friends of Neha and Babloo came. Our whole attention was on Aleynah. I followed her wherever she went. Babloo cut the cake. Venita prayed in the temple of Neha for the well being of Babloo and offered sweets. She applied tika on the forehead of Babloo and we blessed him on his 40th birth anniversary. I took a photograph of his in my cell and transmitted it to Pilku and Ruchi. Retired to sleep at 11.30pm.

Fatehpur Visit (25th to 29th November)

On 25th:

Completed morning program. Attended a conference on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Royal New Plaza hotel from 11.15-3pm. Various aspects of IPR were discussed. Patent, trademark and IPR are inter related concepts. In chamber for a short time. Sh.BR Lall, a former Joint Director CBI and DGP Haryana, died of massive heart attack, yesterday at Chandigarh. He wrote a book on working of CBI. He was quite critical of functioning of CBI in the book.

Reached New Delhi Railway Station at about 8.40 pm to board the train to Fatehpur. It left on time at 9.25pm. Retired to sleep at the train at 10pm.

On 26th:

Arrived Fatehpur at about 6.30am. The train was about 2 hours late. Could not complete morning program. Krishna Anand came.He is a neighbour, and a contemporary . He is about 4 years senior to me. He cannot see well and leads a retired life. Met the family of late Naresh Bhaisaheb and spent 2 hours with them. In fact the purpose of this visit to Fatehpur was to visit the family of Naresh Bhaisaheb to give condolences. I could not come on the day of his funeral and later on the day of final rites. I have already written my blog dated 7th November on him.

Ajju came. We discussed further repairs to the house. Digvijay Singh Advocate, Pravesh & Venita rang up. Visited the house of late Shyam Kishore Tiwari to attend the ceremonies of the marriage of his two sons. Today was their Tilak ceremony. Somehow I missed it. I did not feel like going on 29th, the day of marriage though I was there and left Fatehpur late in the night. I told Sheomohan to go to his wife Gita and give an envelope with some money and blessings to the newly weds after my departure. Retired to sleep at 11pm.

On 27th:

Went for a walk to Kalkan Temple and on way back met Dr.Chetan and had a cup of tea with him. Havan was done in my house in memory of Naresh Bhaisaheb and flowers offered to him, 2 minutes silence. His family also was present. We had prasad and a cup of tea together. I gave a copy of my blog dated 7th November pertaining to "Reminiscences: Naresh Bhaisaheb" to the family. I will also send a copy of it to his 2nd son at Bangalore as also to his daughter at Barabanki. Digvijay Singh, Ajju & Ratan came. Retired to sleep at 10.15pm.

On 28th:

Went for a walk. As usual Buddha park in the Collectorate was closed at 7am. It is not known as to when it is to close and open. The sign board is without any write-up. Will write to the District collector about this on reaching Delhi. Went to HDFC ATM as both the SBI ATMs were non functional. My ATM card got stuck in as I pushed it in the wrong hole. I had to go to branch manager HDFC to get it back. Digvijay Singh Advocate , Bhaiya and Guddu came. Could not go to Delhi today as I had wrongly booked my journey for 28th December. Had to cancel the ticket and bought another for journey on 29th November. Tunu rang up and informed about a burglary in the flat of his father in Rail Vihar. Talked to Commissioner of Police and SHO, Sector-56 Police Station. Sent one sms also to the Commissioner of Police as also to Deputy Commissioner Police east. Retired to sleep at 11pm.

On 29th:

Went for a walk. Even today both the ATMs of SBI were non functional. Had to take out money from a nearby ATM of IDBI. Digvijay Singh came. Reservation is confirmed at about 7.30 pm. Thanked JD CBI Lucknow and SP GRPS Allahabad for it. Spoke to SP Fatehpur also. Sashi Dubey rang up. Venita, who had fever on 28th is better today. She took medicine prescribed by Dr. Neha. There is Akhand Ramayan in the temple of the society. Venita joined it despite her illness. Left for Fatehpur station at 10pm. The youngest son of late Naresh Bhaisaheb and his wife came to see me off. Dr. Chetan and Advocate Moinuddin also came. They left after I left my residence on way to Fatehpur railway station. Left for New Delhi Railway station at 11pm. Retired to sleep in the train at 11.30pm.

24th Nov.

Completed morning program. Visited CGHS & SBI,Vikaspuri. In chamber from 1 to 4 pm. Along with Atiar, attended a meeting with Astro officials in Surya from 4.15 to5.30pm. During the day, Vishnuji came and took away a copy of his biodata, given to me earlier. Talked to Vikas, Sapra, Atiar, SP FTP and some others. JP Sharma, a retired IPS Officer, talked to me about his case and problems, faced by him. I told him to come with his case file. Jitendra Sharma, an executive of ASSOCHAM, invited me to attend a conference on Intellectual Property Rights in Plaza hotel . His Director did not agree to the attendance of other Advocates including Vikas Pahwa without payment of 50% of the contribution. I informed him that due to that none would attend except me. As i am leaving for FTP tomorrow, i would attend for a short time.

Retired to sleep at 10.30pm.

23rd Nov.

Completed morning program. Visited CGHS and SBI. In chamber from 1 to 3pm. Pravesh, Atiar, Vshnuji, Mala, P.S. to DCBI rang up. Discussed with Venita a plan to visit Pondichery during winter vacations. It will be less cold there. Life is beautiful when you create the right environment. For us it should neither be too cold nor too hot. Pondicherry will have right environment, a mix of spiritual, natural, right temperature,art,cuisine, to spend some good time

Retired to sleep at 10.30pm.

22nd Nov.

Completed morning program minus some exercises.Lot of time was taken by the electrician in fixing the tube light as instructed by Venita. Visited PNB & SBI PBB. Met Pravesh. When i reached chamber, a lunch was going on in it. I waited outside to let it finish. In chamber from 1.30 to 3pm. I left my cell at residence. I could not talk to quite a few persons. I did not remember their numbers. On way back, visited Hanuman temple in Chanakyapuri. Puja's driver came and collected bag sent by Ruchi. A letter came from the Police Hqrs that they would not take S.C. Varma's .303 rifle, now with me,for keeping it in Police museum as agreed to by them earlier and permitted by the Govt. of India. I will take up the matter with Commissioner of police again.

Life goes on like that. Let me try to make it more purposeful. I am renovating the ancestral house with a view to use it for a school for children who are handicapped in one way or the other.

Retired to sleep at9.45pm

21st Nov.

Completed morning program.Visited SBI Vikaspuri. In chamber from 12.30 to 4 pm.Pradeep came.We discussed misc. things. Pravesh rang up. Wished Subhash & Sunita on their anniversary. They are at Dwarkadhish. Subhash sent a sms "Its been a long day of godly darshans".Met Babloo and gave prasad. Puja was to send her peon to collect a bag, given by Venita. But none came.

Someone so healthy and handsome all of a sudden becomes sick and cannot lead a normal life. In a situation of this kind, what should one do? What our Shastras lay down ? What our wisdom says? We should do all that we can to enable him lead a normal life. Are we doing enough ? Let us find out what we have not been able to do. Let us ponder over it and discuss among ourselves and work out a plan of action.

Retired to sleep at 11.30 pm.

20th Nov.

Completed morning program. Had pain in the left shoulder. Somehow did exercises. Pest control came. Had to call them due to collection of tiny flying insects on spices.PC Sharma came. After a two hour sleep i notice that much pain has gone. Rakesh rang up and insisted that i must attend his daughter's marriage at Lucknow on 26th. Venita says i need not go. It will be taxing. I will go by her advice. We talked of holidays at Thimpu, Gangtok,Palampur & Pondichery. Venita suggested Palampur. We will soon decide about it. It would be advisable to go to south in winters.

Retired to sleep at about 11.30pm.

19th Nov.

Completed morning program. Spent the day at home talking to Venita. Planned visit to Fatehpur.

Propose to leave for Fatehpur on 25th Nov. and return on 29th by Prayagraj. Have to decide about further repairs to the ancestral house and visit the family of late Naresh Bhaisaheb. Pravesh and Sanjiv rang up. Have some pain in the left shoulder. May be due to sudden change in weather temperature.

Retired to sleep at 10.30pm.