Saturday, February 20, 2010

HEAVEN ON EARTH

Hi, this is Abhishek. It's quite some time since I wrote my last blog, and that was about 8 months before. Before I begin my story, let me describe the house I am staying in Faridabad. I live on the 1st floor of the two floor house. Each floor has three rooms, two of which had attached bathroom. It has a kitchen, a dinning room, a drawing room and a balcony, everything you can see in a normal house. By average standards, I am living in a posh location and was living alone in a three bedroom floor. And that's just due to the benevolence of Malik Sir that I got that place.

Let me describe him for you. Without this, the story will probably be incomplete. O.P.Malik Sir, was the director at the University Grants Commission (UGC). He is 72 now, and had retired a decade ago. He was an eloquent speaker, the best I had seen till now. He could easily beat the professors of our college. He had visited almost all countries in the world. He was blessed with two sons and a daughter. Both of his sons are in Civil service.Let me remind that civil services are the toughest and most difficult exam of India, where more than three lakhs applicants sit for less than a thousand seats. Both of them are not in India currently.At present on foreign service One is in Singapore and the other in U.S. Malik sir's daughter is a medical doctor. She is married to a very wealthy medical doctor in Faridabad. The house which she lives in, is a very huge one almost 1200 sq. yards area with lots og garden and landscaping. Malik sir's wife is Kanta mam. She is about 69 years of age. She had been the principal of a girl's school in Delhi. Of course, she is retired too. She is an amazon, yet she is so affable and gregarious. At 69, she could still give a woman in her 30's, a run for her money. She is the most well educated lady I have known and seen so closely. I truly admire this family. If I could become even like any one member of this family, I can easily say that I have been successful in life.
I wish them good health and happiness in life and both of them in turn feel the same way for me and my familly.