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BACK in 1985, I was part of a batch of 20-odd journalism students from Punjabi University who were taken to New Delhi by our teachers to visit offices of media houses, news agencies and Doordarshan Kendra.
AFTER joining the Information and Public Relations Department, Punjab, in 1986, I and another newly recruited colleague were tasked with procuring gift packs of masala gur (jaggery), which were to be distributed among journalists on Lohri as a goodwill gesture by the then Director.
One sultry afternoon in July last year, I got a call on the intercom from the reception, ‘Sir, Resham Singh, your schoolteacher, wants to see you.’ On the spur of the moment, I couldn’t place him, despite reminiscing the time I had spent in school 45 years ago, but instantly asked
To rent out a house is an intriguing experience. A couple of years back, a family which had taken on rent the top floor of my three-storeyed house put me on notice that due to some untoward circumstances, they would be vacating the premises by the middle of the next month.