Life Delicacies

My Son Has Settled Abroad-I   “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain   “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – A.A. Milne   “Hello Dadu, how are you, how is your health, have you taken your meals and medicine too, how is my Dadi, is she okay? Is everything okay at home, hope you are comfortable, Anything fresh and new” phone rings at 08.00AM,(08.00 PM IST) another call at 09.00 AM (09.00PM IST) rings to tell, “Pappa I am leaving for work will talk to you later.” These calls give me courage, confidence and strength to live life with hope that I will receive them here.   I am more than eighty now, I cannot walk straight, have problems with my back and thigh also, so I keep laying on my bed most of the time with three pillows my good companions day and night; they give me comfort for a few minutes: then I turn them to find if that g...

                                         Relations Sweet and Sour   Mirror is my Best Friend Because when I Cry it never laughs.   Charlie Chaplin   Understand people by their actions and you’ll never be fooled by their words. Anonymous   Now life is writing its last chapter, during this long journey, I had the occasion to have almost all relations the Hindu system of life has created and that too living and one was the most loved: sister of my grandfather, Buaji of my father known in our whole family like that only: She was very beautiful even in her old age and her name was wonderful: Radhi was she was called in our family. Grateful to Lord for this rich bounty.   There were a few occasional glimpses of pure love similar to one my mother had showered: but not exactly the same: very grateful to all known, unknown, related or not-related who wer...

  We Live in Love   What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.   All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,   deserve your love and affection. Buddha Love is shown more in deeds than in words. Saint Ignatius One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. Paulo Coelho   Way back in 1949-50, neighbourhood unrecognized unnamed Primary School of Master Brij Lal ji, as he was called, was Alma Mater of many of children of our Mohalla and so it was mine also. Sitting on jute mat, in a road side verandah, with a small one Anna Kiyadha-a small Brochure, we used learn to write Hindi, Punjabi and digital counting in English on a wooden Takhati-plate washed carefully AND covered with a thin layer of clay (Multani Mitti, Gachani in local dialect)     with a beautiful margin around. Loud reading alphabet and roar of tables was order of the day ...

                                                        Ho Gaye Ho Pradesi You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.     Miriam Adeney   “Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.”  Vera Nazarian   Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget that they are also growing old. Anonymous   My only daughter well employed, leaving her job in India, is going to Canada for green pastures there, I would be alone here as my husband is already with the Lord and subsequently she intends to settle her family there: I am not comfortable with any relations so most probably I w...

  I Have A Second Family   Time together as a Family is a gift.   “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”   Ralph Waldo Emerson   “My friends are my second family. Sometimes friends can understand my problem but my family can’t.” Greyson Chance   Neighbours are no less than the second family, so make sure you know them and treat them well.   Shikha Mishra   I get up in the morning at about 05.30 hrs, after freeing from my personal routine, the first thing in the day is to prepare three cups of tea, two for watchmen in the street who remain awake whole night and third cup is for a maid old lady in the neighbourhood whose day starts even earlier then me, the first words that I listen from them is “Ram Ramji Babuji”, it is so satisfying that somebody wishing me the Bliss of the Lord. Next thing is to pick up my “Jhola” (used cotton cloth made bag that can hang on the shoulder) and ask my Darling Madam ho...

  Journey दफ़्तर (Daftar)   O ffice to WFH   It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.   Benjamin Franklin   “The only way to do great work is to love what you do” Steve Jobs   Standing at the Local Bus Stand opposite Golcha Cinema in Daryaganj, Delhi-6, way back in November 1968, waiting for a bus, to join on first day at Dak Tar Bhawan, Patel Chowk, Parliament Street, I heard a four seater Motorcycle, Driver, shouting ”Daftar”, “Daftar”. I was new to the city, could not understand what “Daftar” meant, asked a person standing beside me where is “Daftar” reply was, “North Block” still could not understand, he explained it is “Central Secretariat” later somebody explained that it is “Viceroy’s” Office, when there was no other office this was known as “Daftar” and still continues like that only, still not happy with the information and asked will the Motorcycle go via “Parliament Street”, another D...