A bitten bit of my past !!
I was the youngest of the 4 siblings and the only son ,but that never made me precious and pampered by the family. My father was in the army. We all grew up in cantonment environment, hopping almost every 2 years from one Cantonment to the other Like from Allahabad’s Draupadi Ghat we came to Calcutta’s Fort William and then to Bangalore Cantonment Bangalore was the only city where we remained stationed for almost 5 years before getting shifted to Delhi Cantonment in 1961, 4th of July to be precis It was the year 1959-60 and I was about 10 years old studying in the 6th form in the Army’s Regimental school . Around this time my father decided to put me into “King George Military School” .This was a ‘day’ Boarding School exclusively for Defence personnels . It is now called “Rashtriya Military School”. There was an aptitude test which I cleared but failed the written test. I was happy, a...