MADURA COATS COLONY VK PURAM AGAIN - 563
MADURA COATS COLONY - VK PURAM HEAVEN ON EARTH ( Repeat ) I have had the good fortune of having lived in a gated community all my life . First as a youngster under the care of my Parents at various Railway Settlements and later as a grown up in the Mill Colony down South where I was employed . My early remembrances are of having lived in the Railway Colony at various locations by virtue of my father having been a Senior Officer in the South Eastern Railways at Kharagpur , Garden Reach - Kolkata , Chakradharpur , Adra , Cuttack , Nagpur , Waltair or Vishakapatnam and Bhilai . They bring back fond and nostalgic memories of the many Diwali , Durga Pooja and other Festivals that were celebrated there . . Being a small and almost closed community , every family was on very intimate terms with each other . It was as if they were all members of an extended Family . I did my Textile Technology at SASMIRA in Mumbai which ha