Beginning of Life in the UK : Chapter 02 :: Download
Dr Mohendra Irengbam *
At a dinner & Dance party in my Golf Club in 1978, with visiting Friend Dev Puri, an industrialist from Delhi. Margaret and an Irish nursing friend Phil Sterling.
Part 02
There are inspiring prompts that spark memories of my life’s association with this country and the wisdom gained. Before I go through them, here is a bit that might be historical in the context of Manipuri diaspora overseas.
That I was the fourth Manipuri Meitei who settled in the UK as pioneers. Others are Dr RK Sanayaima from Keisampat, Dr Longjam Jogendra from Kongba and Dr Mansing also from Kongba. We all came for postgraduate studies and settled in the UK in the mid-1960s. There are now innumerable Meitei diasporas all over the world. Men, women, and their children.
In the previous chapter I gave a rough sketch of the standard of medical practice in Imphal and Manipur up to the immediate post war period, in stark contrast to the current very high standard of health care. I will be talking a bit more for the record and as the main reason of why we all came to London in those days, in the first place. And in my case, what actually beguiled me to come to London as an edge forward to my life at that time.
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