Bobby Gordon came up the hard way. His father Noel used to repair old radios after he retired from his construction job.Â
Unlike many in McCluskieganj, Nelson 바카라˜Bobby바카라™ Gordon says he would not carry the 바카라˜nostalgia nonsense바카라™ forever. For him, the future would not be a set of stories from the past.
Bobby Gordon came up the hard way. His father Noel used to repair old radios after he retired from his construction job.Â
Gordon is perhaps the only Anglo-Indian in this place of nostalgia to have a good enough present. He insists on his Scottish roots and says he has a son who will carry the Anglo-Indian legacy further.Â
His living room is a testimony to his wealth. A practical man, Gordon says he wasn바카라™t going to carry the 바카라˜nostalgia nonsense바카라™ forever. For him, the future wasn바카라™t going to be a set of stories from the past. A man with mediocre taste whose house resembles modern architecture with some traces of the past for effect, Gordon now runs a guesthouse and a hostel.Â
He married an Adivasi girl who could look after his enterprises unlike an Anglo-Indian who, he says, would 바카라œonly apply lipstick and host parties바카라. That바카라™s how legacy works here but not for Gordon. His grandfather purchased this property in 1942.Â
His great grandfather William Perth Gordon came to India from Scotland and was employed with the British Army in Barrackpore and married an Indian woman. His grandfather William Paul Gordon married an Anglo-Indian woman called Nancy. They had a son called Noel Gordon who married a Bengali woman in Ranchi.Â
Then, it was Bobby바카라™s turn and he did what few others had done. A local girl would be a good match for him, he thought. He has some of the old letters and photos which he proudly displays to anyone who asks. Like others, he has stories too like that of Harry Mendies who ran a bus service called Ganga-Jamuna and one would never know when the bus would reach Ranchi. 바카라œI never thought of leaving this place. Maybe there is a lot in nothingness too.바카라