21st to 23rd June

Last week I did not have any rest. It was continuous running about including on Saturday & Sunday. Upto 23rd also I could not get any rest. My back is much strained. I could take some rest on 23rd after return from Center for Sight, where Venita was given Avastin injection in her right eye. It was Ekadashi fast also for me on 23rd. After I had 4 hours sleep in the evening, I felt fresh and had dinner. Retired to sleep early at 10.30 pm.

18th to 20th June

Collected Avastin injection from AD (MSD) CGHS on 18th. Neha's parents stayed for sometime at Gurgaon. Babua loves them. When they wanted to go he said "Don't go to Jaipur as your house will be unclean. Go tomorrow. Tell the driver not to come today." He was feeling bad as they were leaving him. He had good time with them at Rishikesh also. On 19th visited Akshardham and witnessed pooja and jap by mukhya Swamiji Maharaj. Mukhya Swamiji is a quiet person and emits an aura of piety and simplicity. I was one of the special invitees who were given the opportunity to meet him in person.He garlanded me and gave a packet of sweets. The garland emitted a sweet smell. I decided to keep it for Babua whom I was to meet on 20th after lunch at Subhash's place. On 20th had lunch in Subhash's place and met Chhutulu, who had hernia operation a few days back. Barun and his family also joined in.

FAMILY/ GENEALOGICAL TREE

Below is given my Family Tree.I have given it for the convenience and knowledge of my family.I am sure it will interest them. It starts from the times of Aurangzeb, the Mughal King.

GENEALOGICAL TREE

(17th Century) ASKARAN, Ancestral Village is named after him as Chakaskaran ,a big Zamindar, lived in the times of Aurangzeb , the Mughal Emperor. He was a Mansabdar.  His name was Askaran Lalji Sahai.
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GOKUL PRASAD, A Big Zamindar and Dewaan in a Princely Estate, Madhya Pradesh.
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GAJODHAR PRASAD, A Big Zamindar and Dewaan in Kothi Princely Estate,Madhya Pradesh.
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(I)BANKEY BIHARI LAL,
(II)SHYAM BIHARI LAL,
(III)RAM BIHARI LAL
(IV)RAJ BIHARI LAL,
(III)RAM BIHARI LAL ,(4th Nov,1904-6th April,1991)BA, LLB,District Magistrate, Panna Princely Estate, Madhya Pradesh & Advocate, And RAMA DEVI, (1913-16th March,1955).
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DINANATH SHARAN SHRIVASTAVA, BA, LLM ( received Gold Meda for securing First position in LLM examination, 1962,Allahabad University), Lecturer-in-Law in Meerut Law College & Gorakhpur University, Indian Police Service(Assam-Meghalaya Cadre,1964 RR)& Advocate Supreme Court of India, New Delhi. And VENITA SHRIVASTAVA, BA Part I,
(1)AMITABH SHRIVASTAVA , B.COM (H) (DU), MBA (Bom.), MSC(LSE), Director,ADAM SMITH INT. London. And RUCHI SRIVASTAVA, BA(H) in Economics, MBE (DU), MSC Information Systems(LSE).
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(a) ABHISHREE SHRIVASTAVA.
(b) AMOLIKAA SHRIVASTAVA.

(2) SIDDHARTHA SHRIVASTAVA -- BA(H) in Economics (DU), MA in Economics (JNU), Senior Journalist. And RITSY, BA(H)in History (DU), MA in History (DU), MBA (Fore School of Management, New Delhi).
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KHYATI MUNDRE SRIVASTAVA
ALAYNAH MUNDREY SRIVASTAVA

(3)PARIKSHIT SHRIVASTAVA -- BSC (H) in Botany (DU), MBA (Center for Management,Modi Nagar), Diploma on Environment (LSE), DGM,URS Scott Wilson India Private Ltd.And NEHA SRIVASTAVA, BA(H) in English & German, MBA.
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AKSHAT KISHORE SHRIVASTAVA.

I had inherited about 10 acres of land from my ancestors. Quantum of ownership of agricultural land after abolition of Zamindari was reduced to the extent of agricultural land, tilled as 'Khudkast'. I kept it for about 19 years after the death of my father, Late Ram Bihari Lal. I found it difficult to manage it from Delhi where now I live and therefore sold it with the concurrence of my 3 sons & wife.As the agricultural land sold by me was situated at a distance of over 18 kilometers from the nearest Town Committee/Municipality area, no capital gains was payable.This fact is mentioned in my income tax return of the relevant period. All payments were received through inter-bank transfer. The sale proceeds are equally divided among 3 sons.A sum of Rs.1,30,000 is also given to each of my 4 grand children. The interests from the fixed deposits of these amounts are being utilized in maintenance & renovation of the ancestral house at Fatehpur ,UP & salary etc. of the caretaker. All my children and wife desire that we should maintain the ancestral house in memory of my late father.After the house is renovated we will consider various options of utilization such as for a school/hostel for disabled children, or hospital or school etc. in consultation with children and wife.

11th to 17th June

Read the review of Fali S.Nariman's 'Before Memory Fades' in the Indian Express on 12th. It is in the nature of an autobiography. He writes about emergency, judgment of justice Jugmohan Lal Sinha of Allahabad High Court, which according to him is not very convincing, acquiescence of the then President of India, late Fakhruddin Ahmed,a former Advocate General of Assam, a pliant President was prevailed upon by 3 lawyers: Sarvashree H.R. Gokhle, S.S. Ray & Rajni Patel, many areas of silence in our constitution, Ramnath Goenka, the courage of 2 o'clock in the morning kind: unprepared: personal appearance not dispensed with, shuttling from one place to another dutifully putting up appearance, judicial overreach, level of the Joint Secretary, single directive, his effort to modify the provision of single directive and failure etc. I would like to buy a copy and read in details.The following lines from the write-ups of the editorial page of the Indian Express dated 13-06-10 attracted my attention.
1. Meghanand Desai. 'After 1917, Lenin did not repay those socialists with any kindness. That was his way. Now his way is gone'. I think the society is now full of Lenins. These Lenins do not remember what their friends,relations and colleagues did for them. They are thankless lot like Lenin.
2. Talvin Singh. She has written about 'democratic feudalism'. She is 100 percent correct.
3. Sudheendra Kulkarni. 'The greatest danger was separating oneself from reality'. True to the hilt.
4. Shombit Sen Gupta. 'Football can turn around fortunes'. A multi billion phenomenon much more in volume than cricket.
Venita had FNAC at a diagnostic center in Karkadoma on 14th.
On 15th Kaushal, his wife Gouri, Neha and Babua came. Had lunch and left after about an hour. I gave Kaushal a book written by Obama. I dint like his style. These days I am reading 'The Last Lecture', a book given to me by Ruchi, my eldest daughter-in-law. Got a mail from Ruchi on 17th. The grand children are expected in Delhi after 15th July and she requested me to organize swimming and riding lessons for them.I am trying. The FNAC report is negative and suspicious formation in the breast of Venita is not malignant.

10th June

Visited RML for clarifications about medicines, being taken by Venita. Dr. AK Agarwal said that there should be no side effect of the medicines taken by her. Instead we should record her blood sugar level whenever she complained of corrosion on her hands and arms and later go to him after recording the same for a few days. He was slightly annoyed when I asked him the purpose of prescribing each of the 6 medicines which I could not understand. Although he explained the same but said that I could get this kind of information from the CGHS. Dr.HP Singh had fixed the appointment with Dr.AK Agarwal. It appears Dr.Agarwal did not like it and told to get the appointment through his PA whenever I desired to see him. He is slightly eccentric but a good physician.Obtained the permission for the FNAC from CGHS. Avinash Chandra,a DIG of Police of Punjab Govt. met me and desired to guide him in preparing his statement to the CBI who have registered a case against him under Prevention of Corruption Act. I went through his papers and said that I would tell a junior to prepare a list of dates and draft statement for his convenience to make his statement to the CBI under section 161 CRPC. I impressed upon him to be truthful and not to tell a lie. That is the only thing which will help him in redeeming from the case.
Retired to sleep at 11.30 pm.

1st to 9th June

Quite a few calls came inquiring about the health of Venita.On 2nd left for Allahabad to participate in the 13th day ceremonies of my mother-in-law along with Venita by Prayagraj. The train was late by about an hour when it reached Allahabad on 3rd. The detailed ceremonies took place on 3rd.On reaching her house I stood for a couple of minutes before her photograph and offered some flowers. Met all her 3 sons and gave each of them a warm hug. I could not stop a sigh from my throat when I hugged them. All her three daughters were there and two of her sons-in-law (Me & Pramod). Four of her grand children were present,three from the daughters side and one from her sons side. Devika,grand daughter,flew from Mumbai to join in the ceremony. She has another two grand daughters.Misty could not come as she is studying in UK. Chottu also could not come due to unavoidable reasons. Daughters and grand daughters love more.Two of her grand daughters-in-law had also come.Detailed Puja was done and gifts given to 13 Brahmans including the wife of the head Pundit. Their feet were washed by the sons and they were fed too.All the Gods were invoked to give peace to the departed soul. As per the tradition of the Hindu families in India, the mantle of management of the family affairs has now fallen on the head of Arun who is the eldest son. Everyone in the family, sisters, brothers,did Tilak heralding he [Arun]is now the head of the family and will guide all.Venita gave a token amount of Rs. 1001/- on the occasion to him. To the sons-in-law of the family he is a virtual father-in-law and mother-in-law,the two in one.I have written in my will that no such ceremonies be done after my death and that I should be cremated in electric crematorium. During the day after the ceremonies and lunch I felt quite uncomfortable due to heat and a weak air conditioner and a fan which moved very fast but did not give air.I am now allergic to extreme heat and extreme cold. I don't know why. May be it is the side effect of Angioplasty which I underwent in 2004.In the evening there was a Bhajan Sandya followed by dinner(considered as prasad from the deceased). But the same were disturbed due to dust storm. Had dinner and left for the railway station at 8.45 pm. The train started on time. Arrived New Delhi on 4th at 8 am. Took Venita to Center for Sight in the afternoon. Again there is deterioration in her right eye. Dr. Dinesh Talwar prescribed Avastin injection, which is quite painful and costs over Rs.15,000. I think that deterioration took place due to her high sugar level, stress and pneumonia. On 5th noted the following lines from the write up of Dilip Bob published in India Today dated 7th June 2010( we receive post dated magazines) at page 22 under caption "India's Trust Deficit"..."....we prefer safe & conventional over risk-taking and out of the box thinkers or doers....Ratan Tata, Murthy,Premji run perhaps most respected companies but are hardly adventurous types. In contrast in USA Apple's Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, Sarah Palin - innovator, risk taker, legendary minister & maverick politicians are in the top five."...."We like our role models to be plain vanilla rather than risk laden chocolates, family man who dress conventionally and rarely appear in public as opposed to those who reflect ostentatious living. To me the bottom line is that most Indians are still stuck in Hindu rate of growth mind set, where baby steps are preferable to audacious leaps of ambition and endeavor.Trust me on that".I agree with Bob.
On 6th RN Bharadwaj met. His blood pressure was 150/130. I don't know how could he stand at that pressure. I am sure he was telling a lie. Read India Today tiger issue. FIFA world cup starts on 11th. KTS and Vikas are going to South Africa. It is the world's biggest sports event once in 4 years. Had Chinese food from Yo China. On 8th visited AIIMS and showed Venita to Dr. Sandeep Guleria.He suggested biopsy by ultrasound guided FNAC . We got the appointment in AIIMS with the help of Rashmi. Wished Riya a Happy birthday. She is at her Nana's place. A thought came into mind that instincts govern us most. Let the reason govern us now for next 10 years atleast and after that too to the 'last syllable of recorded time'. DDA men came and recorded the violations in our block. Some irregular additions to our flats were seen by them. In fact I have already stated in the last meeting of the executive committee of the society that if any violation is done by me I may be informed so that I can remove it. On 9th Chistya came and we discussed his cases, handled by us.

21st to 31st May

The treatment of Venita continued. A number of diagnostic tests have been done & some are yet to be done. Blood tests so far have not indicated much except that she is highly diabetic. Neha came. On 22nd came to know about the death of Venita's mother at about 1100 hours. She had been in the hospital for over two weeks now.She was taken home for a couple of days in between but had to be rushed back to the hospital as she felt uncomfortable in breathing. She was over 85 years. She lived a full life with even most of her grand-children getting married. She also had a number of great grand-children. Venita was quite upset.I talked to Dr.Varshney to release Venita from the hospital so that we could go to Allahabad for funeral of her mother. But the only flight to Allahabad had already gone at about 1pm & by train we would not have reached the funeral. We had to be satisfied by prayers for peace to the departed soul. I have not come across a lady who was so accomplished and had love for all and malice towards none as my mother -in-law. She was loving and caring, always spoke good of all. I never heard her talking ill of anyone. She had milk of human kindness for all. We decided to attend the ceremonies on the 13th day. In fact Venita had stayed with her mother from 6th May to 14th May for 8 days. She had gone to Allahabad on 6th when we got the information about her mother's illness early morning. She would have continued to stay there but for her sickness from 11th onwards. She had fever all these days & on return from there had to be admitted in RML hospital on 20th to 24th May.
On 23rd had a conference at Sainik Farms in connection with Frigoglass case. The mother of Mr. Mathur,IAS(Retired), is putting up in the adjacent room of the nursing home for treatment. He is a 1971 batch officer of J&k cadre. Neha came. In fact she is coming everyday to visit us. Subhash came. On 24th after release of Venita from the RML hospital,went to Chandigarh in connection with Frigoglass case. Attended the High Court of Punjab & Haryana on 25th.The case is adjourned to 27th July.Bought tickets on 26th to go to Allahabad on 2nd June and return on 3rd June after attending 13th day ceremonies of Late mother-in-law.
It is Buddha Purnima on 27th. The Buddha was born, enlightened and attained Nirvan on this day.
All the days between 21st to 31st May have been hectic,depressing & trying. We have put up with the stress & have now to pursue further investigation of Venita in AIIMS for Mitotic Leision in her right breast.The two chest experts who examined her right breast at RML hospital, told my daughter-in-law,Neha, that there was nothing much to worry. They further suggested that we should get her examined in AIIMS also. Venita brushed aside their observation on the ground that they were quite young and could not be relied upon in view of cet scan and mamography of the chest reports which pointed to existence of some suspicious growth. We therefore cannot be reticent and have to get Venita thoroughly examined in AIIMS. However there is no hurry and we can do it as soon as possible after ascertaining the name of most qualified Consultant in the area.
Received a mail on 28th from Barun regarding surrender of .38 revolver of his late father to the Kote of Alwar on the orders of DM. I felt quite bad about it. I got intrigued in late 70s when Barun got the order for transfer of the weapon to him against a license issued by the DM Alwar. The thought came into my mind as to how Barun could get a prohibited bore weapon transferred to himself. But as he got a license for it I had no alternative but to give it to him. After over 30 years the DM realized his mistake and rejected his prayer for extension of license anymore and directed him to deposit the same. Had he got a regular license for the weapon, even if it was of prohibited bore or subsequently became prohibited, the DM could not refuse extension of the license as per the existing rules.But as the permission to hold a prohibited bore weapon against a license for non prohibited bore was irregular since inception, it could not be extended further after it was noticed by the DM Alwar.The mistake was of his predecessor which could not be continued anymore. I wrote the following letter to Sh.Barun Verma in reply to his aforesaid letter.

"Dear Barun,
It is good you have deposited the weapon. I had a premonition as late as when I gave the weapon to you in late 70s. It had come to my mind that you could not hold it as it was a prohibited bore weapon. But then I saw you very sanguine to own it. I had thought that if I disagreed to its transfer to you, I would be misunderstood as if I was refusing to give your late father's weapon to you. Hence I agreed to its transfer to you.
I took up the renewal of your license of .38 revolver with Rajasthan Govt. through the DGP. I succeeded in it & the DM Alwar was directed to renew it.But as the permission to hold a prohibited bore weapon against a non prohibited bore license by the DM was void abinitio, it could not be renewed. The irregularity was detected quite late and there was no alternative for the DM but to withdraw the license and direct you to deposit it as you were not entitled to hold it.I fought a long battle and won it too. But ultimately had to surrender as I lost the moral ground.
Anyway all is well, that ends well. Althouth it will be tough to get it back to Delhi Police musuem in memory of your late father, but I will try to retrieve it as best as I can.I will keep you informed about the progress in this effort."

The lesson, learnt from the above episode is that we should not try to obtain things to which we are not entitled to. The cat is out of the bag invariably one day or the other and there is no way to bring it back. Although I will still try to bring the weapon to the Delhi Police museum so that it is exhibited there,but it is going to be tough job.As I have pursued tough tasks in my life, let there be one more.
The weapon belonged to late SC Varma,IPS,my father-in-law and Barun's father,held by him against a valid license.I could get it transferred to my name after his death with the concurrence of all his legal heirs as I was then an IPS officer and could hold it validly.None of his children could take it as it was a prohibited bore weapon and only Police officers and Armed forces officers could take it or others could also take if they could get a valid license from the MHA,Govt. of India. Generally the license for prohibited bore weapons are not given to members of the public unless there is a reasonable justification for the same.
On 29th after a good deal of effort got the appointment with Dr.AK Agarwal of RML Hospital on 31st May. On 30th Geeta came along with her husband and son. Munna had come on 28th. We had lunch together. All of them left in the evening.
On 31st May met Dr.AK Agarwal at 10.30 am. He prescribed some medicines. We are impressed by the pragmatic approach of Dr.Agarwal in eliciting information from the patient. He would like the patient to narrate her/his problems. He would not like him/her to beat about a bush and then prescribe the medicines. He cured Venita of diabetic diarrhea in December 2009. After that she developed heavy levels of blood sugar. We took the treatment of Dr. BB Gupta of the same hospital. We showed his prescription as well as the prescription of Dr. Godpyle of nursing home of RML hospital. After perusing both the prescriptions as well as his prescription given after release from RML hospital in Dec.09, he gave a new prescription. Quite often I face a problem of getting prescribed medicines from CGHS dispensary. Instead I am given their substitutes. Sometime the CGHS dispensary combines 2 prescribed medicines and gives only one medicine in lieu thereof. I mentioned this problem to Dr. AK Agarwal. He told me to tell the Dr. concerned to talk to him in this connection. I will do the same.Talked to Abhishree. She told me that after a long time her house was empty. For over a month she had a cousin sister of her mother and Mishty staying with her. Nobody wants emptiness. How can little grand-daughter like it? Human nature is peculiar. When there are people around, we feel sometimes as to when they will leave. But when they are gone we feel their absence. Even otherwise we feel empty inside unless we have learnt the technique of keeping our equilibrium and constant awareness. Vipassana helps us in this.

1st to 20th May

On 1st Dr.Kothary of Safdarjang injected my left elbow. I had been having a lot of pain in it. On 2nd had a conference with KTS at Sainik Farms in the matter of Frigoglass case. On 3rd had a long walk along with Sanjaya Sahu in the 17 Sector Market, near Taj hotel at Chandigarh. It is situated in a non-residential area and is the biggest market of Chandigarh. There are only offices and hotels nearby. Had a Dera thaly in Dera restaurant of Taj. Curiously there was no thaly. On return to Delhi Sanjaya excused himself & left me to wait for my baggage. I felt intrigued. He never behaved like this ever earlier. Later I asked him, why he went before my baggage came. He told in a forthright manner that he had an uncontrollable urge to go to toilet. We laughed together. We should not imagine anything adverse against anybody unless we check on it. Consulted Dr.Bashishtha on 5th, an ENT Specialist of RML Hospital. Venita has been having pain in the neck. He advised X-ray & prescribed some medicines. Came to know that my mother-in-law has been hospitalized at about 0245 hours on 6th. Venita left for Allahabad by Kalka mail at 0700 hours the same day.Voted for Sh.Jethmalani,Sr.Advocate, in the SCBA elections on 7th. He won. Attended executive committee meeting of the Arunodaya housing society at Vikaspuri on 8th. It was resolved to authorize the general secretary to inform the police and take their help when a resident attempted to start an unauthorized construction. Conveyed best wishes to my mother-in-law on Mother's day on 9th. She was in the hospital. Appeared in the case of Sh. DM Sharma in CAT on 10th. Met the new AGM SBI PBB. Sarvashree Dijvijay Singh and Sh. KN Agnihotri, both advocates from Fatehpur called on. On 11th I found I was unable to fold my left leg to sit in Bajra Asan. It is an Asan which I have been using over decades for doing some other Asans. I felt quite dejected. Attended the case of Sh. DM Sharma in CAT. The Govt. advocate was in no mood to argue the case. He sought an adjournment. Sh.Raju who is heading the bench of the CAT is hard hitting and I noticed that he would not tolerate beating about the bush by the advocates.The Govt. advocate took the plea of non availability of the file of the case with him as the ground for adjournment. Attended DM Sharma's case on 12th too. Today the Govt. advocate took a different strategy. He did not appear and a pass over was taken by his clerk. Later the case did not reach the board before 1300 hours. The case was again adjourned. We started transferring all the emails to Microsoft outlook, with a view to workout a system of reminders on old mails. Sh.Digvijay Singh, Advocate, came and had lunch with me. Gave him 4 copies of Vipassana II to be given to Sarvashree Dr.Chetan Kapoor, Karuna Shankar Mishra, and Naresh Chandra Srivastava at Fatehpur. I gave him also a copy of it.On 14th Venita returned from Allahabad.Prayagraj train was late by over an hour. Visited Safdarjang hospital. Dr.Kothary advised wax bath to my knees and some exercises. Venita developed high fever on 15th. Had to call Dr. AK Lal. Dr. Harsh Khanna who lives in our society said that he could not come when I 1st rang him up to come to look up Venita. Attended the marriage of grand daughter of Dr.BP Saraf, retired Chief Justice of J&K. Met Sh.RP Sinha,Sharad Gupta & their families. Dr. Sharaf's children also met. We met after a long gap of many years. All are changed and some are beyond recognition. So is the impact of time .Everything is changing fast every moment. We notice it when we see after a gap of time. On 16th attended the wedding of Gaurav's sister and returned at 0020 hours on 17th. Showed Venita to Dr.Lamba,a junior to Dr. BB Gupta, Head of the Medicine Department. He said that there was some congestion in the right lung and advised a chest X-ray and hemogram. On 18th had wax bath of my knees in the physiotherapy center at Sanatan Dharam Mandir, Vikaspuri.On 19th Showed the chest X-ray & hemogram reports to Dr.Lamba, who advised hospitalization of Venita for detailed investigation. Dr. AK Agarwal wrote a slip to Dr.Gorbole incharge nursing home RML. Sh.Surendra Mohan,registrar of the Post Graduate Institute of RML spoke to Dr.Gorbole for admitting my wife in the nursing home.Suggested some changes to Sh.Pramod Verma in reply to the application in Hitika Vs. Vikram Verma case. On 20th Venita was admitted in the RML and her investigations started. I spent much of my time with her. As She did not need a permanent attendant,I returned Vikaspuri and had wax bath on my knees.Retired to sleep at 2300 hours.

8th to 30th April

On return from Fatehpur I came to know that Venita was quite sanguine to have a dip in the Ganges at Haridwar on 14th April, the last day of Mahakumbh. I spoke to the DGP Uttarakhand and SSP Haridwar to help her and her entourage so that they could have a dip in the Ganges on the 14th April. They , however, did not commit for any specific assistance. We also did not want to engage their men in an unnecessary manner.
I discussed with Pilku about informative & instructive mails sent by me to him and others who have consented for the same. He suggested that not more than two mails be sent per day. It became difficult to read so many of them at a time. It is a good suggestion & I will try to follow it as far as possible.
I have taken three Godrej air conditioners. One of them was bought by me in 2004. I have spent over Rs.7,000/- so far on its maintenance. This year I thought of getting it checked up by Godrej itself as it has not been giving me good service. They did send their maintenance staff, but they told that it could not be repaired as the spares such as condenser of the 2004 model of one and half ton AC were not available. They instead suggested to sell it off and buy a new one. They wanted to suggest a ready buyer for it. I told them to hold on. Then I sent emails to Godrej, but to my surprise no reply has come till today. In fact I tried to contact them at their Customer Care number, but without any success. I gave up and requested Sh. DK Rastogi, known to me for over a decade, who takes contracts for electrical works. He has got it repaired. I paid a sum of Rs. 4,300/- in addition to Rs. 7000/- already spent earlier. I could start using it from mid May only. Somehow the customer care service of Indian as well as multinational companies is not upto the mark. We have to see as to what we can do to improve it in our country.
Sh.DK Rastogi sent his engineer Sh. Sunil Chaudhary for rectification of some electrical faults. In fact even after power went off AC continue to take power from the inverter which could not bear it and tripped. Sh. Chaudhary after working for over 2-3 hours removed the electrical fault. Now the AC does not remain on even when the power has gone.The inverter is cut out from power.I thanked Sh.DK Rastogi for the help.
Pilku came on 11th.He will go to Kabul on 12th. My younger sister came to our house on 12th and had dinner. Ruchi and grand children also came from Goa after holiday of 10 days.My younger sister and her elder son Amrish could met them also. On 13th I took my grandchildren to Janakpuri city center where they had ice-cream in Barista. In Wordsworth, a book, toy & gift shop, I told them to buy any number of books they liked, but no toys please. I bought them books worth about Rs. 1250/- . The younger grand daughter Amolikaa wanted to buy a pencil set. I said today was the day for buying books. She could buy anything next day. The grand children had bought the toys worth about Rs.2000/- at Palam Airport after their arrival from Goa on 12th.Amolikaa is just a little over 4 years. She started crying for the pencil box. I wish I could have bent and bought her the same. But I did not bend. Later after they left for London I felt quite bad. Even today I am feeling bad. I will carry the pencil box to her to London when I go there in June.
Due to volcanic ash from Iceland over the European sky Ruchi and grand children could not go to London on 17th and were stranded till 21st. I got some more time to spend with them. As a result I have not written my diary from 17th to 21st. Ruchi and grand children left on 22nd after lot of effort by quite a few people. Ultimately it was Ruchi who managed the departure. She is pro active , intelligent and dynamic. An assertive personality. Pilku left for London on 23rd.
Venita's temperature went over 102C on 25th (Sunday). Requested Dr. Khanna to come. On 27th visited RML hospital and met Dr.BB Gupta who examined her and prescribed medicines for her. Dr.BB Gupta himself is diabetic. When I rang him up today (20th May), he could recognize me and apologized. It is common with diabetics.On 29th I rang up to talk to Babua at about 1530 hours to tell him that I was taking Vanilla ice cream,his favorite. He also takes vanilla ice cream at 1530 hours everyday. My daughter-in-law told him to say "jai jai" to me. He was watching 'Bhim' Cartoon. He did not pay any attention to his mother. On her insistence he said in a rough way 'kya', in the same tone in which Silku would have said when he was of Babua's age. 'Bhim' is his favorite cartoon film. He did not want to be disturbed. I liked his one pointed attention.It will help him in understanding life in a better way. Concentration of mind is important for understanding anything.

26th March to 7th April: Visit to Fatehpur

I left for my home town Fatehpur on 26th March. Arrived on 27th morning. During my stay at Fatehpur I helped Bhawna disability institute in organizing its governing body. I held a meeting in my house with eminent people of the town for the purpose.
My father's punya Tithi(Saptami)fell on 5th April. I organized a havan in the house in which I invited some friends and local relations. Shivmohan, the caretaker of the house, distributed Prasad to all the children of the Pani school where I completed my formal education upto 4th standard. It is located in front of my house.
On return from Fatehpur I addressed the following letter to the SP, DM for taking interest in the development of Yusuf and Dar club:

"Dear Sh.Garg,
Please refer to our discussions at Fatehpur on 3rd April at your residence regarding the deplorable condition of Dar Pavilion and Yusuf Club. I could not meet the DM,Fatehpur.
While walking on the roads of Fatehpur, passing Yusuf Club and Dar Pavilion, during my last stay at Fatehpur from 27th March to 6th April 2010, I noticed their pitiable condition. I was reminded of my student days when we were especially allowed to play tennis, cricket and football in the fields of the clubs. I remembered that we used to rub shoulders with Sh.Prakash Krishna, the then District Magistrate and Sh.Aga ,the then Superintendant of Police while playing football and cricket. Regular league tournaments used to take place in which our college team always participated. I met Sh.VA Man Singh, son of Late Man Singh, the first Deputy Inspector General of Police of India, also at Fatehpur. He also wailed over the condition of the clubs as also total lack of social life at Fatehpur. He was a regular player and joined in all their social activities. His mobile number is 09795883959.
At Dar Pavilion I found heavy vehicles and other equipments, probably belonging to the PWD. The building was locked and wild growth of grass had totally covered it .It’s residents were pigeons. I felt quite sad and reminiscent. It is situated just behind the official residence of the District Magistrate, Fatehpur. I think that there is complete renouncement of all sports activities as most of the IAS and IPS Officers do not take interest in them and perhaps are happy with files.
I studied upto 12th at Fatehpur and thereafter in the University of Allahabad. After a tenure of 2 years as a lecturer-in-law, I joined the Indian Police service in 1964 and retired in 1997 as Director General of Police. Now I am practicing Law. I visit Fatehpur at least twice in a year to take care of my ancestral house which we renovating for charitable use.
I request you to kindly take steps and discuss with the District Magistrate, Fatehpur for restoration of Dar Pavilion and Yusuf Club to their pristine glory once again."

New Delhi
15-04-10
Sh.Vijay Garg,
The Superintendent of Police
Fatehpur,UP Yours sincerely

Copy to 1) The DM Fatehpur
2) Sh. VA Man Singh
The Mann Bhawan,Fatehpur."

I also planned out renovation of my ancestral house so that it can be used for some charitable purpose. A part of it is already renovated.