My Residences: मेरे निवास स्थान

 I had the opportunity and privilege of living with my siblings, parents and grandparents , nice neighbors and friends in Jhalu in my ancestral home and house for a long time. We enjoyed living together cordially and happily caring for each other. Such a possibility does not occur any more. see my blog about ancestral home;  https://shubhkamna-davendra.blogspot.com/2021/07/ancestral-home.html

Description of my house and living conditions in those days are given in another blog; https://shubhkamna-davendra.blogspot.com/2015/03/living-conditions-in-small-town-during.html

Once I mentioned to my grandson, Satvik about the living conditions of those, he simply said " Baba, your life was much better than ours and perhaps, your parents and grandparents might have lived much better life in a very peaceful environment " I have a few blogs about my conversation with Satvik;  https://davendrak.wordpress.com/?s=satvik&submit=Search and one about the living conditions in my village; https://davendrak.wordpress.com/2015/10/03/a-conversation-with-my-grandchild2-life-in-a-village-in-early-1950s/

Any way, one has to leave his ancestral home and the town for further/higher education  and employment postings at some point or the other . I have to leave early in 1950 after my middle school education as there was no facility in my town after middle school. Once I left, there was no return except during summer or other vacations or waiting for employment periods etc. I lived in several places in India and abroad - with my relatives, in the hostels, temporary shelters and mostly in rented houses/ apartments and during my early career with ONGC in the field camps. The experience of living in various and different situations ( places and times /durations etc) is very rich and interesting, very unique in its own way;

Places I lived; Jhalu, Chandpur, Meerut, Varanasi, Gajraula,.Katni, Aligarh,DehraDun, Baroda, Jodhpur,  Anjar (Kutchh) , Karaikal, Madras (Chenai) , Bangalore, Dharwad,  Ibadan (Nigeria), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Southfield (Michigan), Dublin/Columbus (Ohio), now Windsor (Ontario, Canada) ; 

Field Camps: During 1961-1969, I worked  for Oil and Gas exploration and lived in the field camps; Field camps used to be for a month or so in one place and we used to live in tents ( living tent, kitchen tent, bath tent and a toilet tent) : 

I started my camp life in December 1961  from Chakkar ka milak (Moradabad) - a village near Moradabad and our camp was next to Police training centre; and the last one was Ghotaru ( Thar Desert in Rajasthan ); There were several camps  and partial camps during this period. I will try to give some salient features and important events of those camps;

CHANDPUR; Chandpur was my next residence like a home where I lived my respected and most beloved beloved person during 1950-1955 , pursuing my education in Hindu Inter College from 8th class to High School and Intermediate. we lived in a spacious space and the best location of a big house of a big combined family. The big house accommodated the families of Hakeem Ajudhiya Prasad -Triloki Nath, Ishwar Chandra Bansal, Piyare Lal Bansal ; all very close relatives of my nani ji; in fact, my nani ji was living in a rented portion of Hakeem ji; Great and wonderful environment for me. I spent one of the prime period of my life here with great comfort, love and care from everyone and completed some big steps of my education from  here. I had very good friends from Chandpur and I still continue my association and contact with them; I learnt many and many new things here from Mama ji (Hakeem ji; I used to spend some time with him each evening ); Mama Piyare Lal ji was my great teacher, learnt my reading newspapers from him ( He was alone for first three years , then got married ).