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Transfer to London

Though the deputation to Nottingham had ended following its
successful completion, and all my colleagues had left, we had to stay
back as my wife was into her ninth month of pregnancy then, and
could give birth any day. Even after my child was born, we decided
to stay in the UK for one more month before we flew back to India
with the baby. However, we were strongly advised against doing
that before the child was at least 3-4 months old as the flight could
potentially damage his eardrums irreversibly. My line-of-business
manager in India promised to speak to the UK operations to look up
a back-to-back assignment for me in the UK itself, but the chances
of anything matching my skill profile turning up at a convenient
location looked very slender. We kept praying to Guruji to remedy
the situation, and within a week of my child’s birth I received a call
from a business manager in the UK asking me whether I could move
to the BBC site in London in a fortnight.

Despite the complications following childbirth and my wife still
being in a lot of pain, Guruji’s blessings enabled us to pack up lock,
stock and barrel and turn up in London with our 3 week old child in
time for the new assignment. The drive to London from Nottingham
took 6 hours because of bad traffic instead of the normal 3 and
was excruciatingly painful for my wife, but by Guruji’s grace she
recovered quickly once in London, which is where we still are.

-Satsang of Sudeshna and Pushpal Das, Seimen’s Executive, BBC
London

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