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Patil Baba!

  This blog is a special one. So before everyone starts wondering who Patil Baba is, he is my maternal grandfather or even easier my mother's father. I hope the previous line does not sound like a logical reasoning question. He turned 85 last month, eldest among his 5 siblings, he was born in Gwalior ('City of Music' now). His father was a civil engineer at that time under the government (Scindhia's then). So like any other child of a government officer, he has had a life on the wheels kind of childhood where they were transferred after stipulated years.   He was a Hockey player back in his college days and also played in relays and Hurdle race, for which he even failed for a  year or two so that he could continue to play from his college. Well what I find most interesting is  that he took admission in BSc, did that for 2  years and couldn't clear so then took admission in LLB did not complete that either, then took admission in B.A and passed and graduated, wel...