I'd visited the police top brass this evening to announce my arrival. The tradition is that once one takes up a new assignment or has shifted berth to a new place, one's expected to let the local authorities know about one's arrival. The formal call on serves the following purposes:-
(a) as I'd said at the beginning, it announces the arrival of the new incumbent.
(b) lets the authorities know about one's background and other particulars.
(c) it's a covenant reiterating each one's solemn commitment to support the other's professional
endeavour.
(d) and lastly, shorn of all the niceties, it helps render support or help if and when needed by any of the
concerned parties.
A requirement of placing a convex mirror on the opposite wall, as we get out of our short lane onto the busy state highway, was projected and he's agreed to visit the spot, this Saturday, to confirm the necessity and subsequent installation. It's a sharp curve lurking with danger as quite a few motorists, especially the two wheelers, whiz past at prohibitive speeds often resulting in screeching tyres due to hard braking and showering of invectives at one another, in the aftermath!
The meeting took place thanks to the efforts of Narayanan, my friend from the Delhi days, who's been living here at Guruvayur since 2009. I must take partial credit for his settling down at the temple town, because his decision was arrived at after he'd come to know that I was migrating here! Our relationship had cemented when I'd helped him take decisions that he was confused about at that given point of time.
What I admire about him are his disarmingly simple views about life, clean habits and his professional acumen. And I can never forget the fact that he'd taken it upon himself to teach me the nuances of a 'contract' on my joining the directorate!
Tailpiece.
Mom and Lekha are slowly limping back to normalcy and things seem to be going on as before! Phew!!
(a) as I'd said at the beginning, it announces the arrival of the new incumbent.
(b) lets the authorities know about one's background and other particulars.
(c) it's a covenant reiterating each one's solemn commitment to support the other's professional
endeavour.
(d) and lastly, shorn of all the niceties, it helps render support or help if and when needed by any of the
concerned parties.
A requirement of placing a convex mirror on the opposite wall, as we get out of our short lane onto the busy state highway, was projected and he's agreed to visit the spot, this Saturday, to confirm the necessity and subsequent installation. It's a sharp curve lurking with danger as quite a few motorists, especially the two wheelers, whiz past at prohibitive speeds often resulting in screeching tyres due to hard braking and showering of invectives at one another, in the aftermath!
The meeting took place thanks to the efforts of Narayanan, my friend from the Delhi days, who's been living here at Guruvayur since 2009. I must take partial credit for his settling down at the temple town, because his decision was arrived at after he'd come to know that I was migrating here! Our relationship had cemented when I'd helped him take decisions that he was confused about at that given point of time.
What I admire about him are his disarmingly simple views about life, clean habits and his professional acumen. And I can never forget the fact that he'd taken it upon himself to teach me the nuances of a 'contract' on my joining the directorate!
Tailpiece.
Mom and Lekha are slowly limping back to normalcy and things seem to be going on as before! Phew!!
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