Blog No: 01: Dated: 17.04.2022: Introduction: Why the blog? Who am I? Pass on my remembrances. My date of birth and place of birth. Date of Birth story. Brief description of my family, brothers and sister. My first school. Process for admission. Cleaning in school story. Exams and verbal results. Reading for Primary. “Bacchey pass” story.
Blog No: 02:
Dated: 18.04.2022: Neelesh Jee helping with the blog construction. My different
names. Why Baijana of Khazanchi’s? Guru Jee, Karkun, Non Karkun, Jatuk, that is
DOB document/ Primary passed/ Next Middle pass. Shav Middle story/ Started
English alphabet first time in Grade 6. Urdu medium. Story of my Math result
and performance in Grade 8.
Blog No: 03:
Dated: 19.04.2022: Why children were sent to school. Relive pressure on
parents. My poor performance in sports. Achievements of my brothers and sister
in extracurricular activities. Hoof Hander/ Nalla Taas / Exams – Kya Kaam Kiya
– Answer “Bahut Kiya” story. Cheating – How another test at home after exams
where we had to repeat what we had done. Therefore, checking answers and
solutions after the exams are over so that we deceive our elders at home/ Class
tests. Answer sheets sold for the purchase of Tabaco for teachers. Only half of
the subjects covered by the end of term. School excursion details. Smoking as
an enjoyment for students. Middle Pass ho gaya.
Blog No: 04:
Dated: 20.04.2022: Admission
in S.P.School grade 9. Studied with more seriousness. Better teachers except
some sleeping in class. Laboratory description. Grant of funds in March and cheating/corruption
in school purchases. Matric passed. Admission in S,P.College. Pratha Bomber
Story + Krishna Hookh Story.
Blog No: 05: Dated: 21.04.2022: Addressing
– Follower in place of the reader. Clarification about bad teachers. In an earlier
post. Punishment types in school, Ban Murga, Utha Bethi, Facing Wall etc. etc.
Story of Pak boy returning from “foreign” and slapping him at the airport.
Blog No: 06:
Dated: 22.04.2022: My remembrances of Hindu, Muslim living in Kashmir then.
Main jobs by each community. Excise is mostly only income for the government.
Sher- Bakra story. Daya Krishen Koul, Jagir distribution. Stone pelting between
Sher, Bakra across bridges. Calling KP’s Daali Bhattas.
Blog No: 07:
Dated: 24.04.2022: Explanation for why No Blog on the previous day. Mention
that garden activities in the future could interrupt the blog. KP description
by Hieun Tsang in 631 AD. Dress of Kashmiri people – Muslims, Hindus, Men and
Women those days. Pheran, Kasaab.
Blog No: 08:
Dated: 25.04.2022: Some description of period before my birth. Infants getting
married. Medical facilities are almost nil. Mother and Newborn deaths. Men marry
many times, and women suffer. Story of my maternal grandfather marrying twice.
My mother from his first wife who died very young after two children. Land in
her name for children – my mama and my mother in Ganderbal. Went there with
Mama jee. My adoption. Dokha by the tillers. Give us about one-eighth of the
produced instead of contracted one-half. Dejihor in Kashmiri culture and how it
helped in hard times. Not displayed by many women now because of snatchers.
Blog No: 09:
Dated: 26.04.2022: Continuing about Multi marriage. Different times for the
society. Particularly for ladies. TB and other health issues. No marriage for
widows. Sat Lal is a pioneer. Married a widow That helped the society.
Yagneopavit description. Tent/Tajeera/ Food taken seated on the floor/ stalls
by maasi and bua. New Dresses for everybody. Day marriages. Baraat description.
Dress of Maharaza. Samavaar chai by bridegroom party during baraat. No marriage
halls. Near relatives stay at the main bride/groom home during the celebration.
Food preparation in the temporary kitchen made on the aangan. Lot of singing /
tumbaknaari. The only entertainment in life those days.
Blog No: 10:
Dated: 27.04.2022: Address – Follower stopped. Only Dear,…..from today. Why bog/ Reproduced lines from the Regina lady book.
Description of winters in Kashmir. Snow on the roofs and urgency to remove it.
Snow hills on the roads. Waking in pheran with kangri inside. Falls and live
coals on the body. Passersby would come to help in getting up and stabilize.
Chillai Kallan and its two other periods. Methods to keep warm. Homes with
Bukhari. Kangri Jung. “Thol” hitting head with head. Frequent verbal fights
between boat people ladies on the bank of the rivers.
Blog No: 11:
Dated: 28.04.2022: Returned to my story narrative. Details of my college
studies and differences between teachers and lecturers. My interviews for
medical jobs, X-ray technicians etc. Failure in these. Did not study well.
Addiction to Hindi Novels. Passed F.sc and B. Sc in 1961. Story about my
performance and results.
Blog No: 12:
Dated: 29.04.2022: Now I am a graduate. No jobs available except on
recommendations. Started home teaching at Rs. 5/- per month. Stick in hand to
discipline the child. Two more children’s tuition at Rs. 20/- per month.
Two-month job at Mission School at Rs. 58/- per month. Mission school
description. Made friends there. Mr. Mohan Lal. Then job of science teacher at
S.P.School. Did well and was popular. The principal makes me teach his sister’s
son (Fire Chief’s son)
Blog No: 13:
Dated: 02.05.2022: No Blog on Saturday and Sunday – Garden work kept me busy.
Frost Episode in the backyard. Some plants get damaged. Mission School Dal
Cross described. Samsar Chand leader of the Dal Cross qualification.
Blog No: 14:
Dated: 03.05.2022: S.P.School description continues. Principal cross with me
because he felt offended, I had not wished him. He had seen my brother and he
could not make out the difference in us two. The teaching of failed boys.
Successful later. Some of them in the Treasury. Would help me get my father’s
pension fastest. Science purchases but I was never in the picture. Senior
science teacher and the principal would manage to siphon off the funds.
Laboratory conditions same as at my time as a student. I liked the job but
everyone says it is bad. Muslim teachers agitate for quota. The Govt grants
them a quota. Pandits approach Supreme Court. Given a positive decision. The
state Govt. manipulates and continues to give benefits to junior Muslim
teachers. Hindu teachers suffer and are miserable. The only good thing is that
their children do well in life generally.
Blog No: 15:
Dated: 04.05.2022: While working at S.P.School, saw an advertisement for Shift
Assistant in AIR. The whole story about missing the interview. Holy relic loss.
The full story of the holy hair. Was able to go to Delhi for an interview. /
Agitation in Kashmir valley. Got selected and joined on 07 May 1964.
Blog No: 16:
Dated: 05.05.2022: Backlog description of my college days. Eyesight poor
noticed by chance. Had to wear specs. Coaching of relative girl. Taught her
time management. Indore brother made his bridegroom son prostrate before me on
his wedding day at Noida. Coaching of Matto boy Rs. 210/- for three months in
advance.
Blog No: 17:
Dated: 06.05.2022: My joining in AIR on 07.05.1964. Trip to Transmitter first
day. Meeting people. Getting attached to the studio. Shift duties details. My
duty with Mr. Bhan.
Blog No: 18:
Dated: 08.05.2022: Mother’s Day. A blog on the life of my mother.
Blog No: 19:
Dated: 09.05.2022: Description of AIR Assistant Engineers. Described – AE-1,
V.L.Bhan, AE-2 P.L.Khazanchi, CVS auction and misbehavior case.
Blog No: 20:
Dated: 10.05.2022: Description of AIR Assistant Engineers. Described – AE-3,
P.N.Nehru, AE-4 Mangotra. Receiving Centre. Polo Ground. Chowkidar leaving
after me on a cycle. Not doing night duty. Visit of station engineer to RC.
Sadai Kashmir tuning. Jamming of the station. Reception affected in Srinagar.
Blog No: 21:
Dated: 11.05.2022: August 1965 events, Sadai Kashmir Broadcasts, India Pakistan
Formation, Hyderabad, Junagarh, and Kashmir annexation, Embedded Pakistani
forces in Kashmiri home, Their Operation- Grand Slam. India-Pakistan War.
Blog No: 22:
Dated: 12.05.2022: Din Mahmud story. (Padam Shri Awardee who I thought was a terrorist.)
Blog No: 23:
Dated: 13.05.2022: AE-5 and AE-6, Abdul
Sattar and Mohd. Amin./ Station Engineer -1 (PKV) and SE -2 (SK) My probation
Blog No: 24:
Dated: 15.05.2022: Brief mention of GMD. Kashmiri Pandit agitation 1967. The
Hindus lost as a result of the agitation.
Blog No: 25:
Dated: 16.05.2022: Copied and modified from “October 2020 Narrative “ October
24 narration. Condition of Kashmir history. Hindus to Buddhists and then back
to Hindus. Installation of the first Muslim ruler by Hindus. Conversions. Leeje
Bhattas. Poorbi Bhattas.
Blog No: 26:
Dated: 17.05.2022: Reproduced reaction of a fellow Kashmiri to a blog similar
to yesterday's, sent by me in a WhatsApp group. And my reply to him. All
regarding the condition of KP’s in earlier times.
Blog No: 27:
Dated: 18.05.2022: NNDhar/RNN story and GPF. Gulam Bhat Ration card and horse
in the Office lawn
Blog No: 28:
Dated: 19.05.2022: Mama Jee, Life, Death, my trip to Haridwar for the emersion
of his ashes.
Blog No: 29:
Dated: 20.05.2022: Office duty by air to Jammu + Tour on duty to Titwal
Tangdaar.
Blog No: 30:
Dated: 24.05.2022: Amarnath Yatra Narrative. Pahalgam to Chandanwari
Blog No: 31:
Dated: 25.05.2022: Amarnath Yatra Narrative. Chandanwari to Sheshnag. Pissu Top
Blog No: 32:
Dated: 26.05.2022: Amarnath Yatra Narrative. Sheshnasg to Panchtarni.
Mahagunus.
Blog No: 33:
Dated: 27.05.2022: Amarnath Yatra Narrative. Panchtarni to Cave till leaving
the cave.
Blog No: 34:
Dated: 29.05.2022: Amarnath Narrative. Preparation of roads. Collies, Singing.
Polish Yatri.
Blog No: 35:
Dated: 30.05.2022: Photographs – 03 Nos of yatra and describing the same in
this blog.
Blog No: 36:
Dated: 31.05.2022: Training at the Staff Training Institute
in Delhi. Stay in Sarojini Nagar. Watni Restaurant
Blog No: 37:
Dated: 01.06.2022: Tour to Ladakh. Background. Thumb
injury. Travel to Sonamarg. CLS Radio there
Blog No: 38:
Dated: 02.06.2022: Journey from Kargil to Leh. Laama
Yeeru. Arrival by truck in Leh.
Blog No: 39:
Dated: 03.06.2022: Recording in Leh. Sonam Jaccob.
Conversions. Beggar lady recording.
Blog No: 40:
Dated: 05.06.2022: My Duty at Transmitter. Details of the
system there. My weaknesses. Return home only after the fault is rectified. My
home verandah climb-up incident.
Blog No: 41:
Dated: 06.06.2022: Safety at Transmitter, My face
burnt, accident. Notes on earthing and fuses.
Blog No: 42:
Dated: 07.06.2022: Eating together at Transmitter,
Senior not contributing, smoking bathroom, packet on the table free to all. My
measurement mistakes used to make my boss avoid me because he could not
solve my problem.
Blog No: 43:
Dated: 13.06.2022: KR Gupta Story as SE Srinagar + Him
post-retirement at Jammu.
Blog No: 44:
Dated: 14.06.2022: Kakapuri incident Part 1
Blog No: 45:
Dated: 15.06.2022: Kakapuri Incident Part 2 + Sham
Lal Dullu Son appointment.
Blog No: 46:
Dated: 16.06.2022: N.Krisnamurthy and how he made me
study for Grad I.T.E.
Blog No: 47:
Dated: 17.06.2022: My Grad I.T.E story. Part 1.
Blog No: 48:
Dated: 19.06.2022: Father's Day. Baigash Art. His Hiye
Afsoos story.
Blog No: 49:
Dated: 20.06.2022: Second part of ITE Exams. Training
at Mandi House. My performance.
Blog No: 50:
Dated: 21.06.2022: G.L.Kak Story
Blog No: 51:
Dated: 22.06.2022: Three Radio stories: Key Start DG
Set. Behn ki gaali Radio Director. American Peace Corps worker
Blog No: 52:
Dated: 23.06.2022: Mehrajudin Story – Part 1
Blog No: 53:
Dated: 24.06.2022: Mehrajudin Story – Part 2
Blog No: 54:
Dated: 15.07.2022: Explanation for being absent for
three weeks. Resumed blogs as several readers wanted me to continue posting blogs.
Plan for future Blogs unveiled.
Blog No: 55:
Dated: 16.07.2022: Detailed account of my start in TV
media at TV Srinagar after completion of a 24-week TV Programme Production Technique
course in Delhi. Story of the advent of TV in India and the necessity
of starting TV Programme from TV Centre Srinagar.
Blog No: 56:
Dated: 17.07.2022: More of my work at TV Center
Srinagar. My completion of Grad. I.T.E course. A.K.Ticku Joining at TV Center
Srinagar and his first day in office details. Mangal Sein interaction on his tour to
Srinagar TV Center. My selection for the Civil Defense course at Nagpur.
Blog No: 57:
Dated: 18.07.2022: My training in Civil Defense at
Nagpur. Visit to Ramtek Temple. Going around exploring on a rented cycle. The
story about me getting oranges. Visit to All India Radio Nagpur station and meet
N.P.Goswami who later was posted at Doordarshan Srinagar. Watched first the
International 3 day cricket match from the radio commentary booth at the
playground.
Blog No: 58:
Dated: 20.07.2022: Panic at the loss of my final
denture at the dentist's office. My prayers
for its recovery to ease my pain of getting another set made. Milestone. My
first self-bus trip between the Selwyn Road residence of my son to the Josley
Road residence of my daughter. Plan for a second milestone for cycling in the
park nearby.
Blog No: 59:
Dated: 21.07.2022: Good News – My dentures are
located. My worries over. N.P.Goswami Story.
Blog No: 60:
Dated: 22.07.2022: K.L.Wadhawan Story. He was our
First Superintending Engineer at TV Center. He had lot of confidence in me. I
arranged hops for him to take to Delhi for Beer preparation at home. Raj Babbar
Sister’s visit to TV Center story.
Blog No: 61:
Dated: 23.07.2022: Programme staff recruitment Story.
Sickening work atmosphere working with communal staff recruited from Bihar and
UP. They spoiled the local staff also in making them rabbit communalists. My frequent confrontations with them are detailed.
Blog No: 62:
Dated: 05.01.2023: Our Dear Sister Remembered Part – 1
Blog No: 63:
Dated: 06.01.2023: Our Dear Sister Remembered Part – 2
Blog No: 64:
Dated: 07.01.2023: Our Dear Sister Remembered Part – 3
Blog No: 65:
Dated: 08.01.2023: Our Dear Sister Remembered Part – 4
Blog No: 66:
Dated: 09.01.2023: Our Dear Sister Remembered Part – 5
Blog No: 67:
Dated: 10.01.2023: Our Dear Sister Remembered Part – 6
Blog No: 68:
Dated: 12.08.2023: Ashok Khazanchi, Remembered.
Blog No: 69:
Dated: 08.07.2024: Vipassana Meditation Experiences –
Part 1
Blog No: 70:
Dated: 09.07.2024: Vipassana Meditation Experiences –
Part 2
Blog No: 71:
Dated: 10.07.2024: Vipassana Meditation Experiences –
Part 3
Blog No: 72:
Dated: 11.07.2024: Vipassana Meditation Experiences –
Part 4
Blog No: 73:
Dated: 12.07.2024: Vipassana Meditation Experiences –
Part 5
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