Tag: family
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THE DIWALI THAT WAS
There is something resoundingly vibrant about festivals at home, each characterised with its own unique celebration and its own quotient of enthusiasm and fervour. And while the calendar marks every month with reasons to celebrate, the one festival I look forward to the most has always been that spectacular one of lights, Diwali. Its near-week…
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In Transit
It’s peculiar though paradoxically perfectly ordinary being in two places at the same time. Seated in an airplane that wings its way over the lands and oceans that separate my daughter’s place from mine, my mind straddles both worlds seamlessly. I look out of my little window and take in the ambiguous light filtering through…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PRATIMA!
She was my laughing Buddha. Nearly seven years older than me, she never made me feel that distance. She was wiser, kinder, yes, but she was also infinite fun. Always eager for a joke, finding humour even in the most prosaic, turning a word, a person, a situation on its head and cracking up at…
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Calls from Beyond
It had been a quiet, peaceful, uneventful, everyday sort of day. I had been winding up the routine chores around the house, clearing the last pile of laundry in particular, as I remember. The phone rang and I reached out to answer it in an immediate instinctive reflex, a half folded shirt in my hands.…