Yes it happened in many lives; my friend's father was about to go by that fatal Train Ariyalur accident; he went late to a station known for his punctuality; and the next day he came to know that he was alive. My wife was a student of saraswati school of Madurai; on that day she went to school' and the headmistress saw her said it looks as if smallpox, and sent her back; while she was back coming home, her grandfather was running towards her; she came to know that her school collapsed due to to some train running aside and so many students and that head mistress who saved my wife were dead. And she had no smallpox at all. The reverse is also true. People who ought not have gone also died saving others. KR IRS 4824
On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 at 08:03, Chittanandam V R <[email protected]> wrote: > > *Received from Shri Sitendra Kumar* > > * (The author is a former DGP, > Haryana)* > > * Getting a second lease of life* > > *RS Dalal* > > *THE submarine which met with a mishap recently during a voyage to explore > the wreckage of the sunken Titanic had a father-son duo among the five > persons who lost their lives. The son, Suleman, just 19, an unwilling > explorer, had joined the expedition under pressure from his father.* > *The death of this promising teenager made me extremely sad. The accident > reminded me of a providential escape I had as a teenager. It was 1967 and I > had joined a pre-university course at DAV College, Chandigarh. We had moved > from Ludhiana to Chandigarh after the creation of Haryana. My father was > now posted as Additional Director, Agriculture. My eldest sister, who was > selected in the Punjab Civil Services batch of 1963, had been transferred > to Hisar as City Magistrate.* > > *It was mid-October and a weeklong holiday had come up due to the festival > season. I quickly made a plan to visit my sister in Hisar. I was looking > forward to catching a bus next morning when my father dropped a bombshell > after returning from office in the evening. ‘Tomorrow, you will take a ride > in Chaudhary Jaswant Singh’s car as his family is travelling to Hisar,’ he > said decisively. ‘I’m taking the bus tomorrow morning. I don’t know the > family; I won’t travel with it,’ I reacted strongly.* > > *My father said, ‘I know this family from my Lyallpur College days. > Jaswant Singh, whose father Chaudhary Surajmal studied at DAV College, > Lahore, himself offered to give you a ride when the matter came up during > my meeting with him. I can’t say no to him now.’ He expressed himself loud > and clear. I refused to have dinner in protest. Incidentally, Jaswant Singh > was a deputy minister when Rao Birender Singh was the Haryana Chief > Minister in 1967.* > > *Next morning, I reluctantly got ready; the car was to pick me up around > noon. Soon, I got a call from my father, informing me that two more > relatives of Jaswant Singh had decided to travel to Hisar in his car. ‘So, > you take the bus tomorrow and this will make you happy too,’ he said. I > threw a tantrum over having lost a day due to the sudden change in the > plan.* > > *Only a few hours later, we heard terrible news. A Haryana Roadways bus > had collided head-on near Lalru with the Ambassador car in which the > minister’s family was travelling. Seven occupants of the car died on the > spot — Jaswant Singh’s wife and two little daughters, his elder brother’s > wife and son, the driver and the personal security officer.* > > *On getting this news, my mother and I kept staring at each other blankly, > left numb and speechless. Indeed, inscrutable are the ways of the Almighty!* > > *RS Dalal* > *********************************** > > *Chittanandam* > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZoonav5d-uAFrvKgrBwLzOH5no6XDpugbpPedgw6S_wNnQ%40mail.gmail.com.
