God heard.

Sitting in my Drawing Room,  upright and comfortable in herself, Nisha - the dry fruit girl with casual yet friendly demeanour. 

Nisha :  When I was tested covid positive, my mother said she should have got it instead of her children. And she got it as if God heard!

Nisha's mom passed away in few days after she was tested covid positive, in June 2021.

I think God could have played deaf  for a change :/

Photographs.

Navratri Festival is over, and I am checking my photos ! I am hating them more than ever, and still zooming it, and comparing it with two pretty friends of mine. I looked old and sad !!
I cried little, and then , I oiled my hair and combed them, lit an agarbatti in front of Ganapati, read some jokes and laughed, spoke to a friend, gossiped a little....

Homes !

Pulkit : No, I will keep them inside, ma'm.

Pulkit came to return my chairs that his grandmother borrowed for kirtan gathering at her home. He is grown up and wiser now.
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Me      : ...so where did you get admission?
Pulkit : In Mumbai College of Engineering, ma'am.
Me      : Thats awesome!!! you don't have to leave home!!
Pulkit : Yes Ma'm...

I think deep down the heart, we don't want our children to go away to far-off places, no matter how amazing those cities or countries are !!