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 […]
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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 […]
POLICEMAN FATHER’S ADVICE TO HIS SON
A story or a passage or a situation that was loved by my father called ‘EYE-WITNESS’. (From A Policeman’s Report). He himself was a super cop and obviously it is natural for him to fall in love with this passage. For him this is one of the best reports any policeman can ever write. This […]
DEATH OF CHARACTER
During my childhood, long, long ago, my father introduced to all his children the following famous quote: “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost” As a part of Moral Education, he told us this quotation umpteen times and stressed the importance […]
EYE WITNESS
A story or a passage or a situation that was loved by my father called ‘EYE-WITNESS’ (from a policeman’s report). My father himself was a supercop and obviously it is natural for him to love this passage. For him this is one of the best report any policeman could write. This report shows the reliability […]
MY FATHER’S FIRST DEATH ANNIVERSARY
Today is Father’s 1st Death Anniversary – as per the Hindu calendar. It is said by Pujari Shashank that there is an Extra Month (Adhika Maasam in Telugu) and as a consequence the anniversary is being performed today i.e. on 11th April, 2024! There is a division of opinion among brothers about the subsequent yearly […]
Our Father’s House
There are two houses that are my father’s houses. These are the houses that were built by my father, grandfather and my mother. The house that was built by my grand & great grand parents (of which I have few memories) was in a bad shape, due to age. Over the past 100 years, may […]
Come at 4 pm for Tea. I Will Wait
After repeated knocking on the window, later on the door, after calling him aloud over 10 times and 15 minutes later, he slowly opened the door. There is an agreed emergency entry into the house, but unfortunately it was latched from inside. Otherwise, I would not have waited for 15 long minutes anxiously. The distance […]
