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I visited Indru Advani at Lans in France. To revive old memories we went to Graz, Vienna and Brussels and had a week's pleasant stay in London.
After returning, unfortunately I accidentally bumped against a wall and had an injury to the ribs which confined me to bed for almost four weeks. Fortunately, there was no fracture and I had to bear this agony with courage and fortitude.
In December 2011 Sheela and Nirmal thought of celebrating my birthday with a family get-together in Mahableshwar during the Christmas vacation so that Ari and his family and Vardhan and his family could participate. It was a wonderful get-together and every one enjoyed it thoroughly. There was a feeling of brotherhood with all and certainly this will enable the family members to bring in a better way a closeness of the family.
Every one said that we should have such a gathering often and I think next year we should plan another get-together.
However, during this period another problem arose regarding the heart and since I was feeling continuously weak, I consulted Dr. Sujeet Rajan and he suggested that it would be better if we consult a cardiologist again. We consulted a cardiologist and he suggested that I needed valve replacement. However, on consulting another specialist cardiologist, he suggested that medication can help in my particular condition and so we decided to go by his advice and the medication that he prescribed has certainly helped.
Family get together in Tuscany - Italy
I think it was in the year 1999 that I wanted to have a get together of all the family members on a holiday in Italy so that family members from England, America could also join in this get together. As such, we hired for a week a chateau with 9 bedrooms and bathrooms and a swimming pool in Tuscany, Northern Italy. It was a wonderful holiday since Vardhan, Ari, Rachel came for that week. In fact Tulsi, who was engaged to Vardhan also came. The remarkable thing that happened was that she came at midnight and the
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