Accept or be ready to suffer
The world is not meant to serve you or your agenda unless it fits into some universal plan that only higher powers can manage. No official, social or other position or organisation has been created to further your individualistic aspirations. In keeping with your vision, you need to carve out your role through the mundane […]
Covid and its reverend protocol
With ambiguity around Covid protocols & guidelines often under revision, not only doctors but also public go on trumpeting without sense what the existing protocols warrant. When my son-in-law in Mumbai suburb was tested Covid-positive, like many others my wife lost her peace, “Our daughter Silogi and the two darling under-fives are at risk […]
Playing truant for a holy cause
My friend’s ingenuity in finding time to feed the unattended bovine at home amidst his daughter’s marriage celebrations moved me and rekindled my regard for the holy cow. I had dropped from Delhi well in advance at the marriage venue, a sprawling lawn in the sylvan, hilly Nangal town of Punjab along Sutlej River. My […]
Wait and reconsider, before jumping to conclusion
On a visit to my affectionate maternal uncle in Lucknow one late evening, not being offered dinner hurt us deeply, and we tended to cherish feelings that were not in good taste. However, a rethink made us change our perception. Whenever out of town, my priority is meeting relatives & friends there, and interacting […]
Pleasure of baby-sitting
Tending the grandchild can be quite a pleasant, exhilarating experience. Had it not been for the 20-some days sojourn of our grand-daughter from Mumbai with us, demise of my beloved father few days ago could have fell harder on me and my wife. More than a care taker when we both were away on […]
If only the sons could read his father’s mind!
The first ever letter I received from my methodical father was a sheer advisory. That was in 1980, when I left my parents and others in Delhi to join a new job in Bhopal. Landline phones were few and far between, and mobile phones we had just heard of. Exchange of letters was the […]
Father overrides his strict order
I was often admonished for my nocturnal ways; however, one day my father how soft he was inside. My nocturnal ways: Something reflexive in me prevents following the universal precept of ‘early to bed’. For my nocturnal habit, I drew flak perennially that began in my teens with almost daily admonitions from my father. I […]