Ranchi, Feb. 24: Superior-general of the Missionaries of Charity Sister Nirmala today took a trip down memory lane.

Born in 1934 in one of staff quarters of the then Gorkha military police camp in Doranda, Sister Nirmala tried to remember where exactly where her house was.

“I do not remember the quarter number where I was born 70 years ago,” said the superior-general. “All I can recollect is that there were three or four quarters close to one another and a lot of vacant space around,” she added.

“My father, Mahanand Joshi, was a young army recruit from Nepal. He was with the Gorkha military police under the British armed forces,” said the nun.

The superior-general, originally Kusum Joshi, from a Nepali brahmin family joined Missionaries of Charity in 1958.

Her two younger sisters, Bindu and Savitri, and her brother Surendranath were also born at the Gorkha staff quarters in Doranda.

Accompanied by some nuns from the Missionaries of Charity and some Jharkhand Armed Police (JAP) officials, Sister Nirmala went round the JAP camp located opposite to the Jharkhand High Court.

Till 2000, the camp was known as the Bihar Military Police camp, which later changed to Jharkhand Armed Police following the creation of Jharkhand.

Though she tried reconnect with the place, the superior-general conceded that with so many changes having taken place in Doranda over the past seven decades, the place she had known was history.

In keeping with her plans, no engagements have been kept for the superior-general tomorrow. Sisters at the Doranda church said the day has been reserved for prayer. Sister Nirmala will leave Ranchi for Hazaribagh on February 26. She will then proceed to Giridih and Bhagalpur before returning to Calcutta.