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UNOFFICIAL HISTORY - AND THE SECRETARY CAME AT NOON

Smile - its the festival season; we all have recollections of something amusing which we may not write about officially in our notes, its unofficial. Well here's one such incident. Its Festival time, its meant to draw a smile !! Remember this if you do decide to scroll through it. in any case words are all I have to share - Happy Diwali. Keep smiling. While posted as a DDM one would often come across cases where one just had to laugh it out at the sheer absurdity of the situation which ostensibly was focusing on development. In one of the districts I was asigned to, the NGO Guru Kripa Society was functioning at the village Kotla Nihang. The NGO was funded by a Jesuit order from Kerala and headed by Father Joseph, a Moses like figure. The village was largish, population around 5000 but comparatively under developed. Father Joseph ran the NGO with skill and committment, always calm; collected and slowly but surely would initiate changes or rope in the district adminstration. Then F...