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14 | PRATAP BHOGILAL - JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE
The Journey
MEMORIES OF ANOTHER DAY
There was nothing spectacular about my childhood. We lived in a huge joint family... life was harmonious...
was born on October 25, 1916, in our small two-room home behind my grandfather's (and father's) diamond Pedhi (office) at Jhaveri Bazaar, an old crowded business locality in South Mumbai.
I was my mother's first child. My father had married twice before marrying my mother. His first two wives had died young. The first born of the first wife was Maneklal, who had died as an infant.
I went to Babu Panalal High School located in Pydhonie till I was nine years old.
I remember very little of those days, except that I was a sickly child and my mother used to be very protective of me. By the time I was three years old, we moved to our Andheri bungalow, which was called 'Top Hill Bungalow, built atop a small hillock.
Look at one's own failings and not of others - Pujya Chitrabhanuji
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