We all four children of the family can sing this in chorus at anytime for my Papa that We love you and we are proud of you!! Today is his 65th birthday. So I take this opportunity to express my gratitude towards him. He is such a wonderful person, such a gem that I can simply admire any quality of him, so can write even a whole book on him. And I bet, nobody can utter a single bad word against in this world except my Mom. Lol! He is sort of saint. He can never think anything bad for anybody and so he is not good in judging people. I inherit that quality from him. But to my surprise, he cannot even return bad for bad or think bad for known bad. Sorry papa, I am not that good. He believes in just giving and giving, that too with a smile without getting frustrated.

My papa is struggling so hard since his childhood, but he never give up. He accepts good and bad, ups and downs of the life easily, anything from financial downs in his business or my mom’s paralysis or his heart or skin problems, keeping his sense of humor as well sense of living intact.. he repaired cycles and packed dry fruits to make his studies till 11th, he wanted to become an engineer ..but couldn’t… yesss!! He made all his four children, engineers. : Even at this age, he get up early in the morning, will climb up one floor to check water tank level, then climb down two floors to start the motor, fill drinking water pots, make tea, bring groceries and veggies from market, chop veggies, wash cloths in washing machine, iron his cloths, make rotis , cut salad and fruits and make my mummy feed first, make payment of bills, collect stock receipts, make arrangements for dinner, get up early in morning @4 am, if my brother need to in first shift, will make tea and breakfast for him. Nothing stops him, neither his health nor bleeding cracks in his feet and palms. We simply feel helpless. This is sort of failure on our part to give him comfortable life even in this later part of his life. But he never complains. I feel ashamed, though I am daughter of such a fighter and still grumble of some struggle I had faced.

My papa never lies, and so I, even my 4 years old can make out, if I try. Lol! Good, I have inherited at least few things from him. After all I am papa’s girl. He never stopped from doing anything from skating to swimming to dancing to karate and then engineering and so my Mom used to shout on him that he is spoiling me. He gave me all opportunities to grow in his limits. I cried while giving my 12th standard exams, that all parents come and pick their children after exam is over, but nobody comes for me. He replied, when one cannot give simple exams at age of 17 on his own, how he will face real exams of life later. Even when I failed in college, he wanted me to take it easy, as he knows, life is not as simple as giving exams. I remember, I was in UAE, all alone, didn’t came to India to attend, my family’s first wedding that is of my younger sister. Such a coward I was, but he messaged me that “you are most brave girl of the family and I loves me.”

My papa is so full of life, fond of traveling, eating good food and what not. He loves cracking jokes, rhyming around the talks, making fun, laughing a loud often. He loves so much his grandchildren that even children reciprocate to him the same. The other day, my son all sudden felt that his Nanu(grandpa) was cutting fruits for him, such is the bonding of my papa with his grandson, that he felt his vibrations 260 kms away. I bet even all his grand children can sing for him in chorus “He is the best grandpa and we are proud of him”.

I can only pray for him .. for his happiness.

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Tilak Sarkar:
It was a moving memoir of your father. He must be truly a wonderful person and evidently a great father to his children.

It’s not easy to understand the significance of one’s parents. It’s easy to take them for granted. They are the ones wh…o care for you in the most selfless manner. Beside, you owe your very existence to them. It’s all the more gratifying if they are nice people too beside being nice parents as you would vouch.

It is struggles that make a man out of a human ape. If you don’t build a reputation for integrity, the slightest failure comes and you’re dead. On the other hand, if you have a reputation for integrity, people will flock to you for guidance, for leadership.

I greatly liked the statement – life is not as simple as giving exams. Success in exam is only a make-believe success. Success in career too is not all that impressive. But success in being happy in life under all circumstances separates the true champions in life.

I am missing my father a lot after having read this blog. I would like to believe the soul is indestructible and we continue to exist in some form and continue to progress towards perfection, to the knowledge of the Truth even after our physical bodies perish.

Whatever happens, do not stop blogging/ writing. Richard Bach was very fond of repeating – A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

Chandra Prakash :

I am really touched the way you have described your father. He must a be a wonderful person and a continuous source of inspiration to all of you.

Khushi Keswani Tilak : Will surely try @CP: Yeah, He is!!

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