old friends, JHALU

Right from childhood, a person becomes so busy that he/she does not have time to think around. As the life progresses with education, career and later with family, you mostly forget childhood friends and loose their contacts. I know that unconsciously, at time to time, they all come to mind  but due to several limitations, it becomes very difficult to trace them and to contact them. Now in retirement when, there are no such limitations and obligations, they are well remembered. There is some kind of inner force to contact them, talk to them and meet them. Thanks to Communication technology and social media, I recovered most of the the lost contacts of my friends. Once I found a few, the they provided the links to others to contacts. I feel so happy about it , contacting them, and knowing about them, their progress and family etc.It is quite rejuvenating.
 I contacted some of the old friends from JHALU and I was happy to know their progress;
SATYA BHAN AGARWAL: younger brother of Gahnsyam Das Gupta ( settled in Lucknow after retirement from PWD ; has two daughters, Kajal and Guugun ) settled in Meerut (Ph # 121-251-4821); He has been doing a lot for the renovation of our THAKURDWARA Temple and attached dharamshala in JHALU. But he was disappointed not getting any cooperation from any one in the town and other friends and family members.He was quite critical about Satyendra younger brother of Jitendra; Jitendra's Uncle , Shri Jagdish Prasad recently died at the age of 98;It was quite refreshing my memories about these people. Satya Bhan provided me the leads for Gyanendra and Ravindra, Ravi Bhushan and Vijaya Bhushan etc.

( unfortunately died recently)
Dr. GYANENDRA KUMAR:A friend from JHALU ; we had wonderful time while he was living with his Bua and studying in CHANDPUR; seems to be quite a changed person; settled very well  in Meerut (Ph# 121-260-3549 and Mobile # 941-166-7811); has one daughter and one son, both nicely settled in medical profession; briefly talked about MAHESH and his family ( Gyanendra'swife, RAKSHA is the cousin of Mahesh,; his Mausi,s daughter from Kandhla ) and his younger brother , Yogesh. He also mentioned about my old friend, RAM GOPAL VIDHU ( His son, PRACHUR is a medical Professional ) from JHALU. He has also settled in Meerut after his retirement from defence services.( Ph # 121-262-0366; cell p# 963-948-8117);
RAVINDRA KUMAR; younger brother of Gyanendra also settled in Meerut ( Ph# 121-257-5289 and M# 992-716-9493);
They have another two brothers, PUSHPENDRA and UPENDRA ( an advocate in Binor ;Ph#1342-262-080);

A few months back, I was talking to JAI PRAKASH AGARWAL from CHANDPUR now settled in Baroda after his retirement from ONGC (ph # 265-265-5664).He mentioned then about his younger brother ,

SATYA PRAKASH who has settled in ALWAR after his retirement as PRINCIPAL of a popular Public School of ALWAR; later talked to him; He is quite happy with his family, achievements of life etc.

He then mentioned about JAI PRAKASH son of Shri Hazari Lal, younger brother of my teacher Shri Ram Avtar ( other brothers are Syam Lal, Radhey and ... ); an old friend from JHALU. It was great pleasure talking to them after a long time and knowing that all of them have nicely settled in their lives. 

RAM NATH Goel, ( ph # 942-502-4616; 755-246-5242); retd. as Director, Orthopaedic Services, and settled in Bhopal , now very spiritual; has been writing professional and religious books; one of his daughter is married to the son of our common friend in Chandpur, RAM MOHAN Zindal ( ph # 941-253-4512; 941-101-2394; 983-705-0512);
There is a long list of friends. I will continue supplementing the information about them in another blog.
I wish all my friends very enjoyable life in their future.

My Education

My parents did not plan or looked after my education; also for my brothers and sisters; never knew as what we were doing in the school; never knew about our home work or helping us in any way; They did not do about our education right from the primary school till we finished our education. Surprisingly, it was not only my parents but the parents of other students in the school were also not involved in the learning process of their kids. Perhaps, teachers were taking enough care about it.

I had my primary education in the village primary school run by District Administration with bare minimum facilities but with very good school teachers and good curriculum to teach various creative and learning skills.
Middle School in the town was also run by District Administration. Did my middle school education also in Jhalu ; school had even lesser facilities than primary school but good dedicated teachers. I did my primary and middle school education in URDU language medium ( Urdu was most popular language in our region ; our teachers were also mostly muslims ); English learning started in middle school and I learnt just elementary English ( though my grand father gave me at home English tuition with Shri Bharat Singh ji- a very strict teacher); In the school, I had my very good English teacher from Haldaur- Shri Chandra Pal Singh );
In 1950, I moved to Chandpur to live with my nani and to join Hindu Inter College as there was no further education facilities in my own town .HIC was one of the best known Secondary School in our region with good facilities and teachers. I finished my High School and Intermediate education there with science background- Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. ( with a short break of a few months at DAV College, DehraDun ). As there was no Urdu medium in the college and Hindi was compulsory language, I have to do rest of my education here only in Hindi medium; With Elementary Hindi in High School and Hindi in Intermediate Examinations.