Ok, I have been meaning to write this for a longtime, but just could'nt bring myself to do it. 2 days later will be chhaya mausi's birthday, she would have turned 61, but she passed away on 18th august 2010. It still brings tears in my eyes and I think it will be so for a longtime. Suddenly some memory creeps up and reminds me of her.
When I shifted to Delhi in 2000 I had stayed with mausi for a month, I think that had brought me very close to her apart from the fact that she is neerav bhaiya and sonu's mom. Mausi, extremely cute, always called everyone motu and added 'maarongi bahut' after that, had her typical ways for everything. There was a time when she had false teeth only for the front four teeth and they would invariably fall off when she would laugh, which was quite often! She was getting ready for Neerav bhaiya's wedding ceremony, but had'nt come out of her room so I went to ask her what happened and there she was standing in front of the cupboard frantically looking for something..... she could'nt find the saree that she was supposed to wear, coz she had kept it properly somewhere... there are a zillion stories that I have about her which come up. She would always tell me that my mother in law would say 'maa aur mausi ne kuch sikhaya nahin'!! and i would just laugh it off and tell her pehle MIL toh leeke aao.
She was someone I could always talk to no matter what and no matter about what... I miss my motu like hell, so many things just went away with her.....
When I shifted to Delhi in 2000 I had stayed with mausi for a month, I think that had brought me very close to her apart from the fact that she is neerav bhaiya and sonu's mom. Mausi, extremely cute, always called everyone motu and added 'maarongi bahut' after that, had her typical ways for everything. There was a time when she had false teeth only for the front four teeth and they would invariably fall off when she would laugh, which was quite often! She was getting ready for Neerav bhaiya's wedding ceremony, but had'nt come out of her room so I went to ask her what happened and there she was standing in front of the cupboard frantically looking for something..... she could'nt find the saree that she was supposed to wear, coz she had kept it properly somewhere... there are a zillion stories that I have about her which come up. She would always tell me that my mother in law would say 'maa aur mausi ne kuch sikhaya nahin'!! and i would just laugh it off and tell her pehle MIL toh leeke aao.
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aww...am sure she is having a good laugh up there, loving all the attention she is getting down here...may god rest her soul in peace and am sure you have one more guardian angel added to your retinue of angels :)
by the way love your new blog look....really cool!
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