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We started on our return journey the next morning and reached Pahalgam in two days. From there we came to Srinagar where we stayed in one of the guest houses of the late Dewan Amar Nath, former Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. His widowed daughter-in-law was very hospitable to us. We then moved up to Gulmarg and stayed for a few days in a State hut. We decided to return to Lahore via Rawalpindi. On the way my car struck. against a taxi near Garhi. The axle of the car got damaged but luckily a local blacksmith was able to repair it. After spending a night in the Kohala Dak Bungalow we reached Lahore via Murree and Rawalpindi.
In 1928, my father had an attack of acute dyspepsia. We spent the summer at Elysium, our house in Upper Dharamsala, making occasional trips to Kangra, Jawalamukhi, Baij Nath and the Hydro Electric Works at Joginder Nagar. My mother also became ill in September. I have regarded the year 1929 as the most inauspicious year in my life. Father’s illness took a very acute form. Mother’s illness became aggravated during the early part of the year. I took her to Dr. Nanavati’s Sanatorium at Dharampore in Simla Hills. In spite of his ill health father also accompanied her. I used to spend all my weekends with them. The first casualty in our family occurred in the month of April when my uncle, Mahesh Dass, suddenly collapsed while corning down from Samote to Tika Nagrota. I had to run up from Lahore to the village to look after his affairs as his wife was, at the moment, away at her parents’ house at Basohli in jammu.
When mother’s illness took a serious turn, she expressed a wish to leave Dharampore and to get back to Dharamsala to die in her own house. I brought her to Dharamsala, where both my ailing parents started residing together. Soon thereafter, my daughter Rajeshwari fell ill and died after a short illness of three weeks.
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