This book begins with a glimpse of pre-partition Lahore with its tense atmosphere of communal riots and the mass exodus of Hindu's and Sikhs. Slowly the scene shifts to Dehradun where the writer had his schooling to Delhi University where he did his college and then to Shimla and the hills of Himachal Pradesh where he spent his life and career as a civil servant Written with the intent of appealing to readers of all ages; including school and college boys and girls, students aspiring or preparing for the Civil Services, ...
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This book begins with a glimpse of pre-partition Lahore with its tense atmosphere of communal riots and the mass exodus of Hindu's and Sikhs. Slowly the scene shifts to Dehradun where the writer had his schooling to Delhi University where he did his college and then to Shimla and the hills of Himachal Pradesh where he spent his life and career as a civil servant Written with the intent of appealing to readers of all ages; including school and college boys and girls, students aspiring or preparing for the Civil Services, people working in responsible positions, retirees and pensioners etc., Garden of My Life is a pictorial autobiography of a civil servant's spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility. With his family as the 'focal point' of his world, Lahore as his 'Janam Bhumi', Dehradun as his 'Home Town', Delhi University as his 'Alma Mater', Shimla and Himachal Pradesh on the whole as his 'Karam Bhumi' and the whole world as his 'stage' he narrates "some meetha some khatta and some kadwa" incidents from his lifetime of experience spanning over more than seventy years.
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