November 14th

As much perception, as fact, is the reality that for grandparents, grandchildren have grown up too quick.

Dad does reminiscense often about how nice it was when Dhruva and Diksha were little and they got to spend so much fun time together. Dad could play with the kids at any level, and for however long.

He would become Subbaiah the mechanic when dhruva would play with his cars….. enjoy Super Mario in full competition with Diksha…... be the geologist when it was dinosaur playtime. There’s been many a trip to the Zoo and Prime time and Yogi bear park when he’d just take off on the Vespa with both the children. 

I recall this time that we lived close to Kachiguda for a bit, when he would take Dhruva for a walk each evening. And where would they go? They’d apparently walk to the station, buy platform tickets, and go sit on one of the benches watching trains go by :)

Fast forward twenty years to now...recently when Diksha went to their place, dad was sitting in the balcony, and he pointed at the evening sky and said:

“which star is that?”

“Is it Sirius thatha ?” 

“Aah....that’s right….how did you know?”

“I learnt from you only no thatha”

Such wonderful moments….moments which let you know that time together is times indelible and forever.

Thoughts and feeling inspired from the day, November 14th….no, not children's day, way more significant to us…. dad’s birthday

And to add a couple of pictures from this evening when Praveen popped champagne for the b'day :)

Happy Birthday Daddy !!