Career and Family! More memories.

Sunday 06^th July 2025          Day 23213

1984-1994: Career, Matrimony, Parenthood

• Campus recruitment Alok Dutta and Anil Sachdev.
• 02 July 1984 Eicher, Faridabad. G.E.T period starts off.
• Many new friends mainly from P.E.C Chandigarh.
• Badminton etc at Escapade.
• The Eicher HR team: Meenakshi Dua, Deepika Sondhi.
• First module at Alwar! Matsya Industrial Estate. Quality Control!
• GET house at Alwar, Cycling to Sariska, Prem Pavitra Bhojanalaya!
• NDT of G85 Crankshaft. P L Raina!!! Pyare Lal Raina.
• Second Module in Materials Faridabad. Vendors, Rocker arm shaft.
• Jakes Menon (Jaikumar). His Jawa motorcycle.
• Running around to vendor locations in the Eicher Yezdi motorcycle.
• Fried fish near Anupam Theatre. Gorilla Beer at GET Bachelorhouse.
• The Alsatian dog of the Big Chief Girl!
• Salami from Essex farm, fresh bread, beer and other fun activities.
• Mallik of Materials DET and his gun toting friends!
• Third module at ERC Ballabgarh. Doc Satyamurthy.
• Good place but not much of a stretch and not many learnings.
• Fourth and final module in Tractor Marketing.
• Region 2 Haryana, Arun Kumar and Ashok Mehra.
• Karnal Surendar of Green Tractors, Dr Bambha of Nirmal Tractors, Assandh, Ladwa, Pipli, Kaithal, Pehowa, Yamuna Nagar, Jagadhri, Panipat.
• Karnal Dairy institute
• Area office in Karnal.
• STD calls in the nights to Bombay. Fixed time, PP calls.
• Region 3 Ghaziabad office. Western UP dealers. Shamli, Muzaffarnagar etc
• Region 8 A MP, Bhopal Area office.
• Arera Colony Bachelor pad with Britannia folks Vijaykumar Venkatraman, Kumar and Ramanathan. Dus Number market!
• Kirti Ashar and his astrology, palmistry, Vital Soya bean cooking oil.
• Cooking food for us bachelors and cleaning up!
• Afternoon Gin. KK Vij, Satenapally Anand, Nair, Raghu, Bhatnagar.
• Bhopal, Vidisha, Shivpuri, Gwalior, Morena, Bhind, Neemuch, Sanawad, Ujjain, Sagar, Damoh, Satna, Jabalpur, Ashoknagar!!!
• Gwalior Mela, Shared Auto Rides, India Coffee House.
• Eicher International Ltd Masjid Moth, GK II
• DDA Sheikh Sarai Bachelor House
• Yamaha RX100 and the accident. AIIMS and recovery.
• Fun at Bachelor House during recovery from left ankle fracture.
• Matrimonial advertisement, Proposals, Kripa Nagar, NS.
• Travelling around the world for Eicher International.
• May 6^th Engagement, Shaadi 03^rd Nov in 1991
• Vasant Kunj apartment life
• First car Maruti 800 DAC 6691.
• SSB Muscat and back from IECC. 1993 – May 1994.
• NMIMS few semesters
• VS arrives, Parenthood 30 Aug 1994
• Chase Bright Steel, Alok Jajodia, Vipin Sanghani.
• AKB at Ramon and Demm
• Back to Eicher Delhi. NS, VS at Kripa Nagar, Irla.
• C9 Lalan Joy’s house on rent
• Delhi – Mumbai, long distance

From bachelorhood to fatherhood.