This diary chronicles the remarkable life of C. V. Antony during some of the most challenging years of post-independence India. From his teenage years running away to Bangalore in 1943 through repeated job struggles, legal battles, health crises, and finally finding stability at Burmah-Shell (a leading British petroleum company in India) and marriage, his story reflects the resilience and quiet determination of an ordinary man navigating extraordinary circumstances in Bombay during the 1940s and 1950s.

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