Today is the eighth anniversary of Mummy’s passing away. Had she remained alive she would have been ninety-five years old. Time in its ever-widening wake leaves memories like islands…
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When a big chinar tree falls to ground it creates a stir in the air and a rumble in the ground. People inevitably are drawn to the site to…
When Gorajigri greeted you you felt a flush of affection, nostalgia, and excitement. For her people were everything that was supreme in life. She was long-suffering, serene, and,…
She was known to us as Bengashi, a woman of intense emotions and deep sentimentality. As the first daughter of the family she moved with verve and aplomb. These…
He was quiet and unobtrusive, in this world but not quite of it. He had his feet firmly planted in life but he belonged to another realm. Avtar’s friendship…
She was at once an intense and direct personality, devoid of any public relations skin. When she talked she was intense. She lived a life external to her, that is,…
He was an icon as well as an iconoclast, a traditionalist as well as a debunker. It has been six years since Papaji died but his persona as well…
On January 31, 2012, at 4:38 P.M., the journey of Radha Kishen Kaul (Karihaloo) came to an end at Willow Glen Nursing Home, San Jose, California. He was in a…
(An excerpt from the book Inclinations And Reality) My uncle Papaji was just three years younger than my father. He was born shy, aloof, and brainy. He had few…
Makhan Lal Kaul (Karihaloo) (1932 – 2010) In Memoriam Makhan Lal Kaul (Karihaloo), husband of late Kanta Kaul (Sapru), passed away on October 27, at about 10:00 A.M., in…