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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I Wonder … Father!!
I wonder if we will ever talk again, I wonder if you will remember me, I wonder if you still keep my photograph, I wonder if you still love me! I wonder if you still have a phone, I wonder if you have deleted my number, I wonder if you take calls from unknown numbers, […]
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 […]
BIBF – Where Learning Never Stops
A couple of days ago I opened a broken suitcase at my Hyderabad home. This case is opened after almost a decade, manufactured by a company called ‘DELSEY’. I was using this suitcase a lot when I was working with the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF), Manama Bahrain. I lost count as to […]
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. […]
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 […]
THE SCHOOL BOY – Dr. SANJAY GOYAL
Mr. Sanjay Goyal was my hostel and LLB mate at the Campus Law Center (CLC), Delhi University (DU), Delhi from 1986-1989. My brother Krishna was close to Sanjay. Sanjay calls Krishna and I as ‘Reddy Brothers’. Sanjay, Krishna and Gopal – were always together, inseparable during their stay at the JUBILEE HALL – one of […]
INEXACT 6th MONTH CEREMONY OF AN EXACT MAN
Father’s 6th monthly ceremony is over a week ago. Hindus celebrate death this way too, believe that by remembering the departed through these monthly ceremonies, they come to accept the terms of life without them. Only the memories are remaining. I have memories of seeing my father as a handsome young man in the police […]
A Memory Called MAHATMA – A TV Serial
When Ramana (the painter) began cleansing the exterior of the Hyderabad house on the last Tuesday i.e., on 14th February 2022, he unearthed over 1000 photographs pertaining to the shooting of the TV serial MAHATMA. These photographs belong to the process of shooting…bitter sweet memories ignited in my heart…depths of my soul. Let me take […]
MY FATHER, MY HERO
It rained cats and dogs last night. Rain, somehow, is always welcome. In that downpour I went to meet my father this morning. What I realized on seeing him today is that he is one of the bravest men I have ever seen in my entire life! Hence. I say ‘He is the Man’. He […]
