Random Documents From an Uncle's Forgotten File

There are about half a dozen of these certificates and fragments from official letters.

These papers define a very narrow period of time in this Man's life, the years just before and after 1947. I think.

He and his wife - my aunt, my father's half sister - were part of the "joint family" that lived in the house that stood at Old Number 141, New Number 64, Coral Merchant Street.

I was born and grew up in that house and this man was a very colorful part of my first 7 or so years. He was already comfortably retired by then.

Here is (just) one document that surfaced today.

Voilà, then......a little memory of my uncle, the late Mr. T.T. Nambi, retired Subedar Major of The Indian Army...