Essay: Gazing up at the family tree
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Essay: Gazing up at the family tree

Hindustan Times  

The day before my dada died on a cold winter morning, I saw him reading the day’s newspaper. We found over a dozen, and we haven’t quite given up the search yet.” We spent days sorting and cataloging dada’s collection of books, maps, diaries and letters. In one of my great grandfather’s diaries, I found an entry which mentioned dada’s roll number, when he appeared for his class 8 exams. They wanted future generations to document names, and other relevant details such as dates of birth.” The other shajras helped me connect with long lost family. I can The writer’s grandmother After dadi’s demise in 1992, dada connected with family wide and far, and even made a trip to Pakistan to trace relatives a few months before his death.

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