My childhood
My father was posted in Delhi so I spent my early period of childhood there. I still remember those days though they are now getting little fainted. We used to live in a colony meant for the employees of Irrigation Department, Haryana Government. We used to live on first floor of the quarter allocated to my father. The colony was situated at Under Hill road near Rajpur Road and I suppose it is still there.

Later on, my father got transferred to Faridabad and we all shifted here in 1976. I was ten by then. We stayed in the government accommodation provided to my father till he retired. So the later part of my childhood, I spent at Faridabad and grown up there only.

I was a quite child and very sensitive to things. I was a child eager to learn things. I still remember when my two sisters were in school, in the morning I used to pack my lunch and sit in the corner to study my alphabet book.

I was an egoistic person in a more positive sense. If my ego was hurt, I used to suffer for my self. One incidence I still remember when I needed a copy for my school and it was mandatory next day, something happened at home which I took it so personally that I did not buy it.

My Parents
I have been blessed in my life because of my parents. My father was a very sober person and mother was firm in her nature. They taught us the best family values and the bonding within our family is very strong. That is because they nurtured us in that manner. Father retired from the Government job and mother was a teacher before her marriage.

We never felt any need unfulfilled in life till they were there. Now they are not with us but they are always there in our minds. I feel them around me all the time.


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