Memory is too short. All good things of life are forgotten by the mind and only the bad & unpleasant things are remembered. This is very sad! I was going through the contact list of my mobile, saw father’s phone numbers. To be honest, I do not remember them. I have already forgotten them! This […]
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The Honor of Becoming Parents Parent
“There is a break in the family history, where the ages accumulate and overlap, and the natural order makes no sense: it’s when the child becomes the parent of their parent.” This happens when the father grows older and begins to move as if he were walking through fog – slowly, very slowly, imprecisely. The […]
BACK TO ROOTS – BICYCLE YATRA
I have been dreaming of going back to my roots – my village and back To Hyderabad – on a bicycle for a long time. It is my bicycle yatra – pilgrimage. As I cycled for two days – morning 6:00 AM to 4:00 PM, people looked at me as if they were seeing an […]
My Eternal Summer (2024)
Grief is not a simple and uncomplicated emotion. Sorrow is not few tears! My Eternal Summer explores the hidden depths and complexities of the pain of loss. There are vital contradictions governing life – the world opening up for teenage Fanny, when a formative presence in her life is about to bid her final farewell. […]
FATHER’S PHONE
“Phone No: 9490119XXX. Rs. 1799/- pack expired on 11th October 2024”. Message from AIRTEL company, as received. The above mobile phone number belonged to my father. This number was originally allotted to father by a government telephone service provider named ‘Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’ (BSNL). No government agency works. It came as no surprise to […]
WHO IS SCARED?
One of the Greek philosophers – I think it was Epicurus – said: “If I am, then death is not. If death is, then I am not. Why should I be scared of that which can only exist when I am not? Long-time men lay oppressed with slavish fear”. This was said some 5000 years […]
FASLI CALENDER
FASLI CALENDER – There are many books belonging to my father lying at the ancestral house at Govindupalli village neglected. These books belong to father’s student days and his early professional career. There are notebooks with his handwriting, the books he had read and certain official papers of those times. Books are there, dusted and […]
ON BEING MY FATHER’S BARBER
Till his 70th year, my father regularly visited barber’s shop once in every 20 days for haircut. Being a policeman, he had not only followed the police discipline in hair styling, but taught us the need to have a disciplined hair style. For majority of his life, my father had Mr. Narasimha as his barber. […]
Dr. AHMED AL GHASSANI
While rearranging the books in my library, out of nowhere, I found a piece of paper and it happens to be my resignation letter addressed to the then college dean Dr. Ahmed Al Ghassani. The letter is dated 25th December, 2016, Christmas day! With December 2024 this letter would be completing 8 years of its […]
13th JUNE, REDDY SAAB’S BIRTH & MARRIAGE ANNIVERSARY
Seconds into minutes Minutes into hours Hours into days Days into months Months into years and Years into a lifetime. Yet we can never know the life until it is over! On this day i.e., 13th June 2024, I will be celebrating father’s birthday and parents’ marriage day! My father, though held high and powerful […]
