Tag: #returninghome
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In the land of my forefathers
I wrote this poem on Father’s day but couldn’t post it then as I was traveling. Returning to my hometown after three years and three deaths, wasn’t easy. I wasn’t even sure why I was going there except as a mark of respect for the people who were responsible for the person I am today.…
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The Homecoming
Time flies. Last week, at this time 5.00 p.m, I was sitting alone, sipping on my tea and watching Cinderella on T.V. with all the latches on the door put; the only sounds being of the sparrows and the grandfather clock in the living room. ‘Mamma don’t leave me. Keep holding me,’ my younger one…
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Return to the Homeland – India Diaries – Part1
The smells that once excited me had no effect; now that I knew this was where I was going to be staying, for sometime at-least. “Ma, we’re home. That peculiar smell…a concoction of burning firewood, soil after the rains…is so Kerala,” my younger one quipped. She was so excited as I was used to being…