Hello, friend,

Thanks for accompanying me on our journey through my life. Here I shall describe my friends.

I cannot claim a very wide circle of close friends. This maybe since I have never felt very close to any friend. Further, I am not exactly keen to visit people. it is said that God gives us relatives : thank God we can choose our friends. But I have always relied on my relatives at all times of crisis. Maybe since my closest friend is my wife. Still I can claim a few close friends.

- Sneh Bijlani - My batchmate in service iis a wonderful person. I shall always remember my two years of probation due to her and Chawla. -
- Ashok Chawla - Though senior to me due tto his previous army experience, he was my batchmate. We were also together in Vadodara. I have always enjoyed his company.
- N.Parthasarathy - Four years senior to mme and is now Member (Finance) in Department of Telephones. We get along extremely well. He tries to help everybody.
- N.Krishnamoorthy - One year senior to mee , we were together in Chittaranjan. Both he and his wife are our family friends.
- Samar Jha - A brilliant officer with a lliterary bent. I have a lot of admiration for him as well as his wife, who is a very good writer.
- S.Ramasubramanian - My classmate for fiive years in college and now my colleague in Railways in the Signalling &Telecom. department. Both he and his wife are close friends to me and Amritha.
- M.V.Krishnamoorthy - We were together inn Vadodara. Though we have little in common as far as our nature is concerned - he being pious and serious, yet we get along fabulously. My entire family enjoys the company of his entire family, who are settled in Bangalore.
- K.Subramanian - A brilliant programmer iin Autocoder, we were together in Chittaranjan. We were not very closely in touch after he resigned from the railways. But after my posting to Chennai, I have reestablished contact with him. He is working with TCS.
- V.Subramanian - An officer of stores deppartment , we are friends for over 25 years. We were also together in Vadodara and his wife and my wife are also friends.
- Abhay Bhave - We were together in U.K. iin 1989 and got along very well. He is good company and has a taste for good things in life.
- Pattabhi Raman was a close friend in schhool and college. Unfortunately he is no more.
- Jaya Raman and Raj Kumar were my other ffriends from school and the friendship had continued through college. I was happy to meet both in 1992 when we had our class reunion after 25 years.
- Sridhar, my cousin and Santhanam, my broother-in-law have been my friends for over 40 years.
There is a thin line between a close acquaintance and a friend. There are a few other close acquaintances.

Hope you continue your journey with me.

Thanks & Regards,

S. Parthasarathy