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Category Archives: Personal Files
Flashback – Games We Play…
Two months of summer holidays used to be a long time, and each year would bring in a range of ideas to add thrill to our young lives. Television was limited to evenings, with one state run channel. Radio was the constant companion. Many an afternoons were spent playing all forms of rummy, snakes and ladders, carom, Chinese checkers, or chess. Continue reading
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Tagged childhood games, flashback, gallery, game of cards, games, hopscotch, Jenga, memories, reminiscence, skipping rope, summer holidays, Uno, vacations
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And it Flew…
A week ago my son turned 19. Exactly a week later, today is his father’s birthday, a day we remember and mark with some form of wishes or celebration with an ice cream or some soda. Continue reading
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Tagged and it flew, attributes, birthday, nirvana, radical changes, remembering love, Spiritual, time flies, time passing, tribute
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When Your Baby Becomes a Man – At 19 Today…
You brought that much needed joy and hope for your sister and your mother. We have been obsessing with you since. Continue reading
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Tagged 19, Aradhana, baby boy, birth, birthday, blessings, cocoon, God's grace, good son, Jammu la Dogra, JEE, love, magnitude of love, my son, nineteen, success, twins, young man
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Define Love Some More…
There he was on one mo-bike for me, with two officers on the other to carry my luggage. This was one of the many adventures of my life. Continue reading
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Tagged air force station, define love, family, honeymoon, love life, married, mess party, posting, reception, welcome
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Coursemates – Friends for Life
He had this world of his, with set ideas about friendships, socialising, belonging, and I took to it like fish to water. Continue reading
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Tagged armed forces, bond, brotherhood, connection, coursemates, family, friends for life, friendships
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A Friend from Nepal…
He was all of seven years old, working at a local tea shop in Anand Parbat industrial area. Mom used to assist my maternal uncle, her brother, with the accounts at his electrical appliance factory. This Nepalese boy would bring … Continue reading
Define Love Again…
He never forgot to bring a bag of chocolates in exchange for those countless tumblers of tea that I made for him on each visit. Continue reading
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Tagged air force, chopper, daughter, define love, dote, gallantry award, helicopter, IAF, investiture ceremony, life's story, lifetimes, love, love life, love signals, NDA, personal life, Pilot, President, soulmate
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Define Love…
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. Continue reading
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Tagged define love, eternal, khalil gibran, love, solitute, the prophet, to sir with love, tribute, unconditional, unmanifested
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Heartache…
All the philosophies of the world aside, desires are immutable, uncontrollable. Continue reading
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Tagged desires, emotions, Ghalib, Gita, heartache, longings
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Our Princesses
God’s most beautiful creation, girls bring sense into the insane, beastly world. Continue reading
Posted in Parenting, Personal Files
Tagged crown, daughters, God's creation, jewel, precious, pride, princesses
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