Posts Tagged ‘mother’

If you can run, then you must run. If you can walk, then you should walk. If all you can crawl, then you must crawl. But if all you can do is stand and breathe, then that is what you should do. Just breathe and stay alive. ( My colleague Munesh in IIT Delhi [...]

More studying in the morning for the presentation at AAI. After a long time am studying 3-D surfaces,angles,slopes from an aviation point of view. Abhi bhi bahut kuch samajh mein nahin aaya. Have a meeting with the AAI guys on Monday. Will have to ask them to take an ‘extra class’ for me. The presentation [...]

My father called up and suggested that maybe if I had just been a writer, I would have been in the league of Taslima Nasrin.  I could share a smile at this comment. Sure, I have already been banished but not by a country or the media or the politicians but by my own family. [...]

My father called yesterday morning. He calls on and off to check about work. Mid-sentence, he cut the call. Later in the day, he called again and I asked him upfront about why he had disconnected in the morning. He said, ‘your mother had come in the room’. This really upset me and I disconnected [...]

As kids, we got the basics (roti,kapda,makan). No doubt about it. And a good formal education. Nevertheless, we did not get any emotional nurturing or any ‘real’ education.
I was daughter no. 2 and that in itself was a very unwanted scenario. And then, I was rebellious,different. So, I was always at loggerheads with my mother. [...]

I really wish my parents could have stood with me and believed in me. I guess that hole in the soul will always remain. It is as if I (and my daughter) do not exist for my family. Our honor, self respect, survival, life is our problem. My mother specially has never had a very [...]