My colleagues were all very happy that I moved 2 steps to my top and gave me a party. My wife did pack our personal and important things quickly and we left the place soon after I resigned from my job and rest of the things came by truck. We arrived in this town north of Karnataka. With in 6 months the mill was taken over by government of India and it was a unit of National Textile Corporation. My New Boss made me Production Manager of the Mills.
My son joined a convent school and now my wife was in a colony where there were family's of a dozen or more officers of the mills. There were kids also all the kids went to the same school where my son was studying. I had heavy work as a Production Manager when the officer who was designated as Factory Manager was transferred to Head Office and his duties were transferred to me. My boss who was a CEO (non technical) as he was designated at that time was transferred to HO as Director Of Marketing and the Factory Manager who was doing sales of mills fabric and yarn went with Director of Marketing. The New CEO was again a non technical man. All technical work was on my head though there were officers as departmental heads of all departments. I am writing all this to say that I had no time to look after my son and educating him was my wife's responsibility fully. He was very good in his studies and so we had no problem except to see he sees his movies when ever a new movie comes to the town. My parents as well as my parents in law visited several times. My dear parents passed away when I was working in this mill.
Soon a new comer in the family was our daughter. She was very pretty and very quite she hardly cried if I remember well and soon it was a very beautiful sight to see my son teaching my daughter and both playing together in the house which I thoroughly enjoyed on holidays. My daughter's horoscope predicted a very bright future for her. The astrologer who wrote the horoscope told that we would move out of this town and go to a new place as soon as she steps and keeps her feet by herself out from the main front door. She did it and we had to move towards our home town to the capitol of Karnataka Bangalore City. As usual our baggage and other language came soon after we settled and it was a big house that was meant for the GM of the mills that was vacant as I was aware of that and it was around 10:00 PM that we arrived I just asked the security to open the bungalow and stayed without anyone permission. There was a big behind the curtain talk that I was arrogant and had no curtesy to inform the officer inchage of housing. I never bothered and was busy cleaning the mess in the mills. My son joined another school and my daughter was as usual jumping all around the house.
My son went to his school very near to the mills. I came to know that I will not be the GM of the mills. The Ag GM of the mills was a C A with good knowledge of finances so I helped him run his dep't and I was running the technical part of the big mills.
I happened to see a advertisement in the local English paper that our subsidiary at Bombay wanted for their textile mills in Maharashtra GM's to few textile mills. I applied and got selected it was just under a year that I had come to Bangalore ad had to move to Maharashtra, that was not a problem for me as my wife and myself had that experience and we both had to manage our life. I asked for a transfer but they promoted me as GM of another mill and sent me to Kerala 700 KM away from Bangalore. We moved to Kerala and my son had to now join his 3rd school in a 3rd state and also learn Malayalam. He would learn any language I know and he did get a double promotion in his school effortlessly. All of us enjoyed our new place and we had a Sea Face at the west side of our house over the office which was a guest house built by the British who built the mills.
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