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The Diaries of Neelakantan: What daily life was like for many
Published on: Sunday, July 03, 2022
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By: MEMORIES OF THE WAR IN NORTH BORNEO
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The Diaries of Neelakantan: What daily life was like for many
Picture of Jesselton (KK) taken during the war period.
1945

It was a month after the double tenth. We were always looking for food, which was scarce those days. Starvation was facing us. Money could not purchase it. My friend Mr. PK Kurup, a surveyor, who was staying in Tenghilan about 27 miles away asked me to go to his place and he would give me some rice, oil (coconut) etc. etc.

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I had gone with two baskets and a bag all tied on either side of the handlebar of my cycle. I had to cross a 15 ft. wide stream, which was running about 10 ft below the level of the bridge. 
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