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Raj Mehta, 77
Raj Mehta grew up in Leicester, the eldest of three children, and became a community pharmacist. He enjoyed careful work and the familiar rhythm of a neighbourhood shop, but his favourite memories involve colleagues and daily routines rather than professional advice.
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Raj Mehta77 years · The Cedar RoomCedarmere House · Leicester
- A life of their own
- Community pharmacist · Leicester, Leicestershire
- Life here
- Raj is thoughtful, competitive at games and willing to laugh at how seriously he takes them.
- People in their life
- Anjali lives nearby and visits several afternoons each week. Their daughters Priya and Neelam live in Nottingham and Leicester.
- A little comfort
- chess, cricket, detective novels, balcony plants
RajCedarmere House · Leicester, United Kingdom
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Fictional character · Raj Mehta
The missing knight
Raj learned chess from an uncle using a set with one knight missing. A bottle top served in its place, which made it surprisingly easy to forget its power. Raj lost several games by treating it as harmless clutter. His uncle offered no sympathy, only the observation that an unusual appearance did not change the rules.
Growing up in Leicester, Raj liked puzzles, school science and cricket matches that gave him a reason to remain outside. As the eldest of three children, he sometimes mistook explaining something for knowing it. His sisters corrected the habit briskly. He still enjoys being right, but he has become better at recognising when the conversation would benefit from his being quiet.
The familiar counter
Pharmacy appealed to Raj because careful attention mattered. Training taught him to check rather than assume, a habit he carried into the neighbourhood shop where he later worked. He liked colleagues who asked questions early and disliked the pretence that an experienced person never needed to look something up. The counter brought a changing stream of ordinary conversations.
When he remembers the shop, he avoids customers’ private medical details. He talks instead about the colleague who labelled every cupboard, the delivery that arrived at the wrong door and the small book-exchange shelf near the entrance. He enjoyed seeing someone return a novel with a firm opinion. It gave the next reader something to disagree with before opening the cover.
Anjali’s last page
Raj met Anjali at a friend’s dinner. She taught mathematics and treated his elaborate explanation of a cricket result as a problem with too much unnecessary information. He found this irritating for approximately five minutes. They began exchanging books and discovered that she occasionally read the last page first. Raj considered this a serious breach of procedure.
Their marriage has contained many conversations about endings, timetables and whether a plant really needed a larger pot. Priya and Neelam grew up hearing both parents defend positions they sometimes changed the following week. Raj likes that his daughters can tease him without wondering whether he will take offence. He occasionally does take offence, but usually manages to make it brief.
Rain at the picnic
Raj planned a cricket picnic with unusual confidence in the forecast. He organised sandwiches, a folding table and a route that avoided traffic. Rain began before the first over and continued with remarkable commitment. The group ate in a sheltered corner, where the youngest children invented a game involving empty cups that proved more absorbing than the postponed match.
Raj was disappointed until Anjali pointed out that everyone appeared to be enjoying themselves except the organiser. He remembers this without claiming it changed his personality overnight. He still likes a plan. He simply tries to leave room for the possibility that the day’s best part will not be the one he has carefully scheduled and printed for everyone.
Dinner interruptions
The shop telephone followed Raj home more often than it should have. He could justify individual calls, but the pattern became harder to defend when Neelam began keeping count during dinner. He disliked being confronted by a child’s notebook, then recognised that the figures were accurate. Establishing clearer boundaries took effort and cooperation from colleagues, not merely good intentions.
In his later working years, he became more protective of other trainees’ time as well as his own. Mentoring suited him when he remembered to listen before explaining. At retirement, colleagues gave him a complete chess set, including both knights. He thanked them warmly, then asked whether it came with improved judgement. They assured him that no supplier had offered that option.
A continuing game
Raj chose Cedarmere House because he wanted everyday support and company while remaining close to Anjali. They have kept their own routines and shared afternoons. His room contains books, plants and the chess set. Anjali will play occasionally, provided he does not analyse every possible move aloud before she has finished her tea.
Visitors may find a position waiting on the board, but knowing the rules is not a condition of entry. Raj enjoys talking about novels, cricket and ordinary changes in the neighbourhood. His fictional professional background does not make him a source of personal medicine advice. A conversation can remain pleasantly unproductive, which he is gradually learning to regard as a skill.
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