Contributor : H R Shenoy )
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1st
January 1964
I had completed
exactly 9 months in L&T – and was just 9 days away from normal
delivery.
I was in the
corridor of C Building ground floor switchgear works, when I saw a towering
personality standing in front of me with an extended right hand and the ringing
words flowed out “Happy New Year”.
It was one of the
great moments of my life in L&T.
The towering
personality was that of Mr Henning Holck-Larsen, one of the two founders of
L&T and active Chairman of the Board of Directors at that time.
I was told it was
customary for him to go round Powai Works and greet each of the about thousand
employees (in that year) – a rough estimate of mine.
What followed was
more pleasing.
Some minutes later,
I had to go to the first floor of C Building on some work. Again, the
same towering personality was in front of me.
This time
instinctively I extended my hand. He said “I have already wished you.”
How he could
remember the faces of all he has wished is still a mystery to me after five
decades.
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