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| A RBI GOVERNOR (3) |
I had the privilege of being the liason officer of Governor Shri.R.N. Malhotra, when he came for the Central Board meeting in Trivandrum. He desired to visit the ancestral house of his wife. I was assigned the task of taking him there.
As Governor he was accorded status of a State Governor and resided in the Raj Bhavan. I took him from there at 8 a.m.
We were in an Ambassador car with a police jeep ahead of us blaring a siren. The van behind us carried half a dozen policemen.
We reached Anna Malhotra’s house; the Governor spent some time talking (through me) to some old relatives. As we were about to depart Governor’s brother-in-law barged in and asked me to request the Governor to get a job for his son. I duly transmitted the request. Malhotra frowned and asked me to tell him
“ To go to hell.."
What I told him in Malayalam was “there are several worlds for your son”. Governor appeared happy at my long sentence and we drove back to Raj Bhavan.