Blog # 35 Dated: 30 May 2022 (See Blog # 74 for details contained in this Blog)

 Dear,.........,

Namaskar. Yesterday I completed my Amarnath Yatra trip details. Today morning,  I had to attend the dentist appointment and had come over to my daughters place yesterday evening since the doctors clinic is easier to reach from her residence. Here my daughter informed me after I returned from the appointment that she has located three photos taken during my Amarnath Yatra trip. I took those photos and am reproducing them here in this blog. The first one is a group photograph. We see two persons sitting down. I am one of them. The other one is Dr. Mrs. Pandita. The lady standing nearest to me is also a Pandita family person. She left for USA later that year. The person standing on the extreme right hand side is Mr. M.L.Pandita who was at that time a Programme Executive in AIR Srinagar and was here on duty like me. (He later rose to the post of Deputy Director General All India Radio. Unfortunately he died about years ago from ill health while he was still in service. He was a very nice person. He remained close to me till his last day. He regarded me very highly. He was once the Director of All India Radio Mathura. His Station Engineer was one Mr. Gupta. This Mr. Gupta later became Chief Engineer and Engineer in Chief in Doordarshan when I was also in Doordarshan headquarter. As soon as Mr. Gupta met me first time in 1990's, he said that it was his ambition to have me working with him because Mr. Pandita had always been speaking very highly of me. I will write about Mr. Gupta in my later blogs.) His wife is on his left in this photograph. Mr. Prabhakar a duty officer in AIR Srinagar is standing near Dr. Mrs. Pandita. Rest of the four persons in the photograph were the pony owners who walked with us to handle the ponies. The husband of Dr. Mrs. Pandita has taken this photograph. The four persons from the Pandita family were related to Mr. M.L.Pandita Programme Executive and they travelled with us in their private capacity.  

The next photograph below has three of us. Myself extreme left. Mrs. Pandita (USA) in the centre and Dr. Mrs. Pandita extreme right. In the middle of the trekking with a walking stick in hand. 

The next photograph shows a long view of the Yatra moving towards the cave. It was somewhere here in this area where I encountered Shanta Jee. I have described the conversation with her in my blog of 27 May. 

 

With that I will take leave of you. I will be there again tomorrow. Bye.