Four Decades Through Thick & Thin: Musings of a Diplomat Part Two - Iran
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This book is the second volume in the series, "Four Decades Through Thick & Thin - Musings of a Diplomat" which was started by the Author originally as real life anecdotes told to his family, from his forty years' career as Indian foreign services career official. The current volume is based during the Author's posting to Iran during the years 1948 - 1950. Volume 1 of the series, also published by Smashwords, was based in the Persian Gulf of the mid Nineteen Forties.
This book is also written in the author's characteristic style of recounting interesting anecdotes from an age bygone. As in the previous volume, there is a photograph gallery of rare aged snaps from the author's own collection.
N Sreenivasan
Mr. N. Sreenivasan was born in Kumbhakonam, Tamil Nadu, India as the eldest son of Sri S. Narayanaswamy Iyer and Smt. Rajammal. His father was an educationist and philanthropist in the town of Nagapattinam. In 1944, Mr. Sreenivasan joined the Persian Gulf cadre of the Government of then, British India. He continued as an Indian career diplomat after Indian Independence, serving in Iran, Germany, the USSR, the USA, Bulgaria, Egypt and Finland. Since retirement in 1986, Mr. Sreenivasan lives in Chennai, India. He is an avid raconteur with an elephantine memory, who brings back to life memories of a diplomatic career, with vividness and humour.In the early morning of 28th June 2017, 3 weeks before his 91st birthday, Mr. Sreenivasan departed for his heavenly abode.
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Four Decades Through Thick & Thin - N Sreenivasan
Four Decades through Thick & Thin – Musings of a Diplomat
Part 2 – Iran
By Narayanaswamy Sreenivasan
Copyright 2012 Narayanaswamy Sreenivasan
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Dedicated to the memory of my respected and revered father,
S. N.
(S. Narayanaswamy Iyer)
2.July.1899 - 1.July.1966
Principal, S. N. Tutorial Home (1943 - 1966)
Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India
and
Architect and moving spirit behind the National High School, Nagapattinam
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Passage to Persia
The Cadillac
The Personal Assistant
Visit to India
Gifts Royale & Dinners Galore
Lifetime Partnership
Photograph Gallery
About the Author
FOREWORD
October 2011, Chennai, India
Four Decades - Through Thick and Thin
, is the result of repeated suggestions by Dr. N. M. Samuel, W.H.O.’s former Director for Asia, who became our family doctor from 1985. He hails from a family of ardent patriots, his father was a sworn Congressman. The good doctor used to engage me in conversation pertaining to my service experiences (often keeping other patients waiting). He wished that I recorded those experiences for the benefit of both present and coming generations.
Professor Dr. S. Vaithianathan, former Head of Cardiology in the Madras Medical College and Civil Surgeon in the Government General Hospital, took charge of us after Dr. Samuel closed down his Canon Baboo Medical Centre in Chennai. Dr. Vaithianathan, after retirement, was only attending to two patients in the morning and two in the evening in his