Dear, ..........,
Namaskar. Sorry that I have not been able to post a blog after 07 June. On 08 June when I was to write the day's blog, I saw a WhatApp message in the extended family group of more than 50 participants. A very sad and bad incident/situation had been communicated. I was disturbed. I did not know how to react. My BP level appeared to get elevated. I had to remain calm and take control of myself. All these days since then, my depression caused by the whatsapp posting has eased and I feel that I should allow the time to heal the situation while I continue with my blog as earlier.
In my last blog, I had written how I was getting street smart. The senior from whom I was running away earlier would now avoid running into me. I was growing and learning all the time. To survive, I had also to be smart and learn to survive in tough conditions. Those were the days when I was under pressure. I would fear the bosses lest they ask me a question for which I had no answer. I did not want to be ridiculed. In contrast, one Mr. Pajnoo who had already a 3-year diploma in sound engineering was much smarter and more knowledgeable. He had joined on the same post as mine but was junior to me in the cadre. I would be teamed with him on occasions and I would learn from him. I shall ever remain indebted to him. He remains my fast friend even today.
We had a boss named Mr, K.R.Gupta a Dogra from Jammu. I would fear him too. One day by chance, I noticed that he was weak in his technical knowledge. Then I would enjoy putting problems before him and finding his discomfort. We would inform him that the Radio Transmission was distorted and ask him to help. He would listen to the broadcast and tell us that he was not finding it distorted. He never had a solution to any technical problem. Sometimes when we would pose a technical problem to him, he would reply that he had full confidence in us and we should tackle it without waiting for him to come and help us out. A time came that to hide his weak knowledge, he would do makhanbaazi to me and Pajnoo Sahib all the time. We were naïve and would get carried away. Mr. Gupta retired as Chief Engineer in All India Radio at New Delhi. There also he would use the same formula. Whenever I would meet him by chance in New Delhi, he would always speak very highly about me and Pajnoo Sahib to the other people in the room. Once I met him by chance at Jammu TV Station around 1996. He had retired from All India Radio more than a decade earlier but would continue to pester the officers with requests for office transport and other favours. On that day also he was there on return from a dental appointment after taking office transport. When he saw me, he again lectured everyone around me with very nice words about me and Pajnoo Sahib. He collected everyone in the office and asked them to learn from us. The fact is that when he was in Srinagar, I had done nothing spectacular to have impressed him with my technical knowledge which was definitely poor.
Bye today. Hopefully, I should be here with another blog tomorrow.
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