1947-1222 Birth of Baby Kalpana, Victoria Memorial Hospital, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
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RecollectionsR1. Book 'My Memoirs' by Bābā Māmā, Ch. 5, Pages 99 and 100: "My mother [Corneliabāī] was by her side during the confinement. Sir C.P. came to Gwalior a few days later and I was the first to inform Sir C.P. abut his becoming the father of a daughter. The delivery was normal and Shri Mataji rturned to the house after ten days along with a very sweet and charming daughter, whom She named Kalpana."R2. 2008-0000 Recollection of Mrs. Shashikala Meshram, Villa, Genoa, Liguria, Italy (Video credit Sankalp Meshram): "I was in school. And when Kalpana was born, in the evening of the twenty-second of December in Gwalior, I was doing matriculation, completing my school. So she was born at three minutes past six on twenty-second December, very cold. And my sister [Śhrī Mātājī] was slightly unconscious, is doing due to sort of profuse bleeding and all that. So, my mother was with Her the whole day, and my elder sister also. Then I was asked to -- and the ward that was reserved for Her was not ehm, I mean uh usable at that time. So, that night the nurse asked me to sit. She gave me a little, sort of dalil satrangi [colored cloth]. And the ... they put Kalpana in my lap. Just newly born, bid. And the shape of her head was like this. Hāṃ [yes], coconut. And the nurse said, "You just comb, just softly patting it." And it will ... it became. So the whole night I kept awake, keeping her in my lap, in Indian's cold. And in the morning it became [unclear]. So that very moment I fell in love with her.
As soon as my exam was over, I rushed to Delhi. They were leaving in Delhi."
SourcesS1. 2025-0709 WhatsApp message from Mrs. Kalpana Srivastava to CCT, on the forwarded 2008-0000 video: "This was sent to me by my youngest Mausi's son Sankalp."S2. 2025-0711 WhatsApp message from Mrs. Kalpana Srivastava to CCT: "Her name was Shashikala Meshram."