विदेश में रचपच रहे बेटे-बहू के निमित्त खुली चिट्ठी
चि. उत्कृष्ट और आयु. संस्कृति, चि. उत्कृष्ट एवं आयु. संस्कृति, तुम दोनों के विवाह को आज दो वर्ष बीत चुके हैं! मन है, कि चंद शब्द लिखे जाएं। यह कि वैवाहिक जीवन साल-दर-साल बेहतर होते चलें। हालांकि भावी दांपत्य जीवन के स्वरूप और दशा-दिशा को आंकने के लिए दो बरस की अवधि पर्याप्त नहीं होती। […]
Don’t fear the grey hair, accept this grace
People do all sorts of efforts to look younger than they are. Rather than lowering your prestige, it raises your dignity and grace. Embrace it full-heartedly. Among myriad others, one major issue of my wife’s eternal wrangle with me since last 40 years of our wedlock has been over choice of colours. I prefer grey […]
Soft heart behind imposing uniform in hills
Devprayag Ved Vyas Village Khand Behind a set of hill ethos & pathos, and a culture distinct from those in plains is the 3-dimensional mysterious topography of high lands. With fewer people around one is likely to become more concerned for others. This personal account of 2016 reflects on how such mindset impinges in the […]
My tryst with first ever Dosa
Thanks to my otherwise very niggardly cousin who opened his heart & offered me dosa, my most favoured cousine now. Then (in 70s), I could hardly finish a third of it. In late sixties, my elderly cousin’s first job in Delhi brought him to our home as new entrant to an already large family of […]
Fuel for foot & fodder for mind
Omelet as fuel for foot and occasional interactions with Badrinath pilgrims made the 11 km long lonesome pedestal hill journey (to my village Khand) possible. Unlike just 200 metre off jeepable road now, when coming via Rishikesh one had to traverse some 11 km on foot or horse ride, if affordable and available to reach […]
Hungry in the grand feast
Eating slowly, bit by bit may keep you hungry in commuity feast, as it happened with me, in a marriage in young age. My school summer vacations in sixties were mostly spent in Garhwal hills near Deoprayag with my aunt. I could not speak the local Garhwali as glibly as they did, and failed to […]
Retirement blues
I was reluctant to accept my retirement party. Yet I did. Here is why? This article was published in Deccan Herald nine days after my retirement. Myth of ‘meritorious service’: After three decades and a half of ‘meritorious’ service as they euphemistically term it, as the date of my retirement draws close with only few days […]