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  1. To my fother

    Posted by Bhavana Upadhyaya
    / June 12, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Mother says you threatened to leave her if a girl was born. And that she was surprised when you held me with delight. And that for months afterwards you were the one who put me to sleep at night, rolling on your warm brown shoulders to the rumble of your...

  2. Newlyweds

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    / April 5, 2012 / 1 Comment
    He watched his new bride fold the laundry. Including handkerchiefs. Just like his mother. They were so alike. It was an embarrassing thought. Did men really end up marrying their mothers? He tried to dismiss the thought. “What do you love about me?” he asked. She smiled and said “You...

  3. A tribute to my father

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    / February 26, 2012 / 1 Comment
    It is said that no man is hero to his valet. Perhaps no man is hero to his son also. It is not easy being friends with your father, particularly in those days when all the elders were respected and therefore so remote. Like many fathers and sons, we expressed...

  4. From the soiled pages of my father’s diary

    Posted by Navin Chandra Joshi
    / February 12, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Rummaging the pile of old journals and books on my last relocation, I came across a very old diary. Leafing through the pages, I found it belonged to my father. My interest aroused as to what it contained. I sat down, started reading it and continued till it was over....

  5. My dear Navin …

    Posted by Navin Chandra Joshi
    / March 4, 2011 / Leave a comment
    At his commercial hub, Ramnikbhai owns a cubicle in a back lane of the Fort area of Mumbai. It houses a computer, a fax and a photo copying machine. Surprisingly, a sizeable corner of the room is occupied by an old table, a chair and a rusted typewriter. I used...

  6. How Vidyarthi Samman came about

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    / December 18, 2010 / Leave a comment
    By Ashish Vidyarthi   One evening in 2001, a sudden pack-up was declared at the location of Pugali, the first Tamil film I had signed. The film never got completed ! We were shooting at Mahanantwadi in the Wayanad hills in Kerala. Though my village Dharmadam, was a good 5...

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