A Visit to the Roots
A Visit to the Roots Nana (maternal grandfather) had gone to His lap in 1948, Nani (maternal grandmother) (MAA as we all Natis her daughters’ children called her) lived for long, left for her Heaven some times in 1987 at the age 103, subsequently four Mamas (brothers of my mother) and their wives also left for their heavenly Abode one by one: full two generations had gone, so the thickness of relations diluted considerably. In the last thirty years four Masis (sisters of my mother) and Masars (husbands of Masis) also left one by one, this further thinned the relations: left only to bereavements that too sometime. My father left in 1980 and mother in 2010 at the age of 97: this brought almost an end to the blood relation we had with the home of our maternal grandparents whom we still carry in our blood. Recently whil...