It was so good to see the childhood photos of myself, my brothers and my cousins. One of my cousins had sent me out of his collection. Thanks to him, my kids and my husband got to see the pics, trying to guess who was who...
It was a pic which we had taken when we were at my grandma's house for one of our summer vacations. I have such good memories of those days. All of us cousins would sleep in the same room, sometimes fighting for places, like who would sleep next to whom. My grandma would make a lot of snacks, a lot of sweets and we would spend a lot of time in the evening sitting at the dinning table and gobbling our snacks. Most of the evenings we would go out with the elders for shopping or for movies.
When there was power cut, we would sit in the candle light around our grandpa in the living room, and he would tell us stories of some of the cases he had passed judgement on.(He was a retired district judge!)
Oh, those were the days!! I loved my grandparents so much, especially my grandma. I was of course their favourite grandchild not only because I was their first grandchild, but also because my mom was their first and favourite child!
My grandma was so modern for her age, I mean she had all modern thoughts. She taught me how to dress , how to wear my hair, what kind of dresses to buy, everything! I learnt a lot from her, her way of pleasing everybody by taking care of their needs, even the servants, made me respct her a lot. She was my inspiration, though she didn't study beyond 3rd grade, she was worldly-wise.She was liked by the shoppkeepers, the rickshaw-walas, my relatives, the neighbours, whereever she went. She was very helpful, especially a big helping hand in all marriages of relatives. I loved her a lot.Thats why I couldn't help crying when she passed away while I was in the US.I never got a last look of her, and I regret that to this day!
Time never comes back, and I'll never get to see them!
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