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Usha and the rest of the family had started to get back into a routine with Nanna, Datt and Baby recovering and gaining good health. Nanna and Baby were getting stronger and more settled. Datt was recovering and getting restless. He wanted to go back to his job and his mission, but still the situation …
Continue reading “No. 10. The sky is blue and the colour of love is true”
Nanna and Dutt had arrived home so suddenly that Usha’s parents had not had a chance to prepare themselves and their house for visitors. There was not much in the house, and it being a lean period in their household income, the family had been eating quite meagerly, making use of what ever simple things …
It was early Sunday morning and Usha’s whole family was enjoying some musical moments. Pitaji had started a bhajan and her mother had come from the kitchen to join in. “Prabhuji mere avgun chit na dharo” the beautiful melodious song in the voices of Pitaji and Mataji, encouraged the children to join in. “O’ god, …
The month of January, with all its great festivities, new year, Lohri, and a couple of family birthdays, had gone quite quickly, but for Usha, despite all the fun, that she was having in Lahore, there was a restlessness. It was time to go home and pick up the threads of her future plans where …
Usha was finding it hard to be alone in Lahore, something she really wanted to do, to think, to plan, to decide what she wanted to do. Her grandparents’ house was quite a big house, almost a mansion, but it could be so crowded, that to find a quiet corner was a struggle. She had …
Continue reading “No. 6 A family secret – meeting a long lost one!”
No. 5. It was decided, before Nanna and Dutt left Srinagar, in a mutual agreement between Murti and Usha’s family, that there will be a marriage at some stage, and Usha and Murti were betrothed, sort of. He still had not told his parents, who lived in a remote village in Punjab, or he did …
Continue reading “No. 5. Five shiny pebbles – ikkad dukkad bambay bo assi nabbe poore so”
Nanna and her husband Dutt came to Srinagar, in their summer vacation and everything became rosy and chirpy once again. The two sisters got together and were quickly absorbed into each other, oblivious to the rest of the world. Dutt and the young professor knew each other, so they spent most of their time on …
Usha came home from her college, she was full of news, excited, and hungry, but no one was home! The door was not locked, just ajar, but the house was empty. “where is everyone?” she wondered. But then she also got worried as her mother was always home, and her younger siblings, all of them, …
The Spring had just arrived, knocking at the closed doors, tapping at the glazed windows, ‘open, open’! Yes! Usha jumped out of her bed, racing out of the room into the crisp morning. And with her, the cold damp winter air that had been imprisoned in the house throughout the winter months, also escaped making …
Continue reading “No. 2. The beginning – that year, spring had sprung a bit early”
Parents are those chapters in our book, which have to close for the new chapters to continue, but the story began with them, and they are always there! Yes, we are a part of the story that began much before us! — neera No. 1. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m …
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Stories of the past, present & future