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until he misplaced them recently. On my return from Europe, when I went to attend the Diwali Puja at a new office of the Bhogilal family at Jogeshwari, I mentioned to Pratapbhai about Mr.Cartrelo. He promptly picked up two coins and gave them to me with a request to send them to Mr. Cartrelo. I sent the coins and he acknowledged them with a thankyou note for Pratapbhai.
Ramesh Bajaj is a son of Ishwardas Bajaj, a close associate of both Pratap Bhogilal and his father. The Bajajs'association with the Bhogilal family is more than 75 years old. They were partners in the Managing Agency that ran Shree Ram Mills and Bombay Cotton.
Mr. Bhupinder Singh Anand Anand is son-in-law of Pratap Bhogilal, married to his second daughter Dharini
On the value of access to a truly objective, solution-oriented mind: One day, a few years ago, I casually remarked to the nurse, Elizabeth, who was attending to Pratapbhai while he was convalescing after his heart surgery, that I had been reluctantly and entirely unwillingly influenced significantly by her patient's demanding thinking' over the years. To PB's curious 'how?', I explained that I had discovered over the years that it always paid to listen to him talk and that his advice to anyone on any issue that did not involve himself could always be followed without any fear that it would commit the one seeking advice to an unfavourable path. PB's immediate retort was a justifiably incredulous, “But you've never followed my advice!"
“Not so," I replied and explained that soon after my marriage, I had disciplined myself to listen to him when he talked after he had observed, when I had consulted him on a controversial letter I intended to write, that in one sentence one can make only one mistake but in three sentences one can make three. Needless to say, the letter was lengthy and its consequences were disastrous for me!
The reason, I explained further, why I never seemed to heed his advice was not because I did not recognize his advice as sound, but, as I had remarked to him years ago, not being PB, I never knew how to follow the path he
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