Letter to my BaBa

 To 

late Shree Hare Krishna Mehrotra 

Date: 10/12/2022

Dear baba

We miss you, of course. Thank you would be the slightest gratitude anyone could ever extend. We all are ok down here. Hopefully, you are fine there?

 There are endless topics I want to discuss with you and endless stories I still want to hear from you. We all are grateful you weaved such a beautiful family that we will cherish from generation to generation. You made us strong, strong enough for every hardship, and you made your youngest grandson, who was scared from looking ahead on a bicycle and would fall multiple times to- a person who will fail multiple times in life but will never give up. Baba, I scored decent marks (9.78 sgpa just to brag) and of course, soon will be Professor as you often said. Didi and Keshav are doing good in their fields, and all your grandchildren doing excellent in their life; with your blessings, we will continue to amaze everyone with our performances. I have started wearing pastel shades as you loved, they are pretty decent and I am toh cute anyway.

Dadi ma is now bedridden, and not that well, but the queen of your house still rules with the same pride and zeal but misses you every day in every moment. Your children and their children are doing really well, we miss you on every occasion be it Diwali, Holi, or Dussehra each occasion is a little incomplete without you. Bua is fine, I do miss her often, every time I enter through that main gate I wonder what it would be like if you called us again and asked " is Praveen back? or who is back? 'hamse milke Jaana!'

Your sons are too busy in their respective shops ( not complaining) of course they work day and night for us. Every extended family of yours is the gift that we carry forward, thankyou you for adorning each of your children with such good manners, and good values that they imbibe in us.  

Tata( tauji) comes every day around 6 and spends a good amount of time with dadi ma, they talk about everything and spend some time watching Tv. Keshav doing good in Kanpur, I am studying in Delhi, and di is in Mumbai busy with her job. Coincidently whenever I am back, Keshav also plans and come for a few days. 

Your grandson is still too emotional and naive for the world, he is too weak to handle his separation anxiety and cannot rationalize the loss. There are sudden moments of aloofness when I am all alone and miss those good days when you kept sweet aside for me, when you called Keshav first for the teeka and told me to wait because I was the youngest. I miss those afternoons when you asked my mom if Kanhaiya was back from school it's late, I miss the way you were the first person who held me tightly for the cake-cutting ceremonies and now there is no one to hold me the way you held, the way you helped, the way you cared. Thank you for everything, hopefully, this could be like those movies that end well till eternity <3

from 

your youngest and naughtiest grandson

P.S.: my mom is always pissed about how I waste my time on such useless stuff and not studying, but if this holds importance to me it is important and not useless. To anyone who thinks this is useless and utterly of no use stay away from comments I hate the idea of being rational while you feel an emotional crisis, and working in a field I want to be there for everyone who connected to me. Your arent alone in anything<3