The contents i am going to post was scheduled by me to be posted on hindi day but due to unavoidable circumstances could not bring on 14th.
I have received hundreds of personal letters from early primary to college education period. Those who wrote me regularly were Dr Bhatia,Dr. Bidawat,Adv. Sidh and rest were greetings on special occasions.The trend of receiving letters stopped with completion of my education & start of job in early nineties and easy availability of phone calls. But the feelings of reading a letter is alive even today.
Then in the June 1999 , i received the last letter which was a special one because both the despatcher and receipient didn't know the address of each other but they felt always close to each other since 1985. This happened when i was posted in bikaner district at dungargarh when Mr Bishnoi ( the then my boss ) incidentally visited to his relative teacher in Adampur in haryana where the despatcher was the director of that public school and he mentioned that my acquaintant is also an electrical engineer in rajasthan and told the name and all positions became clear. So the sender wrote a precious letter in a very - very beautiful handwriting in hindi "Devnagri Lipi".I have never received such a beautiful letter neither before nor after that. The writing was without bond lining and paras were very straight on a plain school letter head. The sender sent it through Mr Bishnoi. What is today painful to me is that i have lost that letter.
Then again a chance to meet to sender of the letter came in Dec 2014, by that time sender had written a dozen of books in hindi and one book was presented to me by him.For me it was a boon to get the specimen of the writings of my last letter in the form of best wishes affixed on the book i.e. on my gift (the specimen of writing is attached at the end of this post).
The person writing me letter has been a prestigeous educationist, a well known writer in hindi, a stage magician in Asiad 1982,a very couragious person who drives at the age of 84 ,a man very nice by 💓. His is the only family from my engineering batchmates always close to my heart . I could make him some tiny demands but he fulfilled those happily.
He writes satire at present , one piece of satire i reproduce here for my friends from one of his books "Suno Bhai Sadho" :-
असली खाओ ! पर जेवर नकली पहनो, जान माल की हिफाजत अपने आप हो जाएगी घूंघट के पट खोल तोहे पीव मिलेंगे और मन सीपी में भी झांक तोहे मोती मिलेंगे (१)
तिनका तिनका जोड़कर घर तो लिया बनाय, नामकरण कुछ भी कर ले है तो सिर्फ सराय(२).
I wish with utmost sincerity to get one such letter again, some more books to read , an early visit with him and all health ,happiness and love of writing for him.
With Regards
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