Pious bells’ jingle filled the vastness with serenityYet piety touched me as I paid a visit to my hometown
As I crossed the district session judge’s residence, I found it changed — solid walls had replaced the hedge I remembered so well. I pointed out the peacock perched on the tree and the prisoners working in the field to my son. Nothing had changed, not really.
Like the olden days, the piercing sun made its way through the kaleidoscope of foliage, and the fragrant breeze seemed to be celebrating my homecoming. The lawns around the house were well-manicured, and the guava and jamun trees, under whose shade I had studied and played, and on whose branches I had swung, seemed to be beckoning me, taking me back to those golden years of my childhood.
Our parents were not son-crazed like the average Indian parent of their time but gave us the best education and tools so that we could become the well-placed professionals we are today. I recall my parents regaling their three daughters with tales of gritty women from the Indian heartland and as I moved around the house that I knew so well, I could see myself holding my father’s hand.As I left the house I wondered whether it really was as inanimate as it seemed.
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