A life long friendship with classmate Jimmy Verjee

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At the parochial school, I struck a life long friendship with a classmate. His name was Jimmy Badrudin Suleman Verjee and when the school closed at 3:00 p.m., we would make a beeline to a small refreshment stall on River Road where we would refresh ourselves on a big glass of faluda and ice cream….

My mother always grumbled and scolded me at my late arrivals from school, but I never mentioned a word about going to the pictures. Instead I used to say that I was at Jimmy’s place, revising lessons and homework together. Jimmy and his parents conveniently lived two streets away from us at Parklands and I was always welcomed. Jimmy’s father Mr. Rajabali Suleman Verjee owned a sweet factory and the sweet making machineries therein were imported from England, and he would give me bags of sweets which I would share out.

Book: Reflections of Twelve Decades – By Frank Morgan