by Mrinalini Batra | May 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
In the last twenty years, I have had many conversations with my mother. I have thought about her deeply but always in the context of the people she left behind – the people who were deeply impacted by her leaving the earth too early. Over the last couple of...
by Mrinalini Batra | May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
In the last six weeks, I have learned many new things. The Internet has been my teacher – from teaching me how to teleconference with clients and friends to making margaritas and also, how to give my husband a haircut. We still live together because there is a...
by Mrinalini Batra | Apr 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
The phone rang at 1:00 PM in summer and at 1:30 PM in winter. Every working day. Even if I was busy, my office connected the call. Failure in trying to engage the caller had made them realized the futility of any alternate action. His focus was unwavering. “Can I...
by Mrinalini Batra | Apr 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
She must have been three years old. She made the portrait of a man and marched in my father’s study. He looked at the picture indulgently as only a grandparent can and asked her why one of the man’s eyes was huge while the other was tiny. She answered, with the...
by Mrinalini Batra | Apr 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Seize the Day! What a wonderful call to make the most of the time and opportunities. However, it often seems that the day has seized me before I can do the same. I wake up groggily. Always. A night owl, mornings do not interest me much. I belong to the school that...
by Mrinalini Batra | Apr 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
It is late February and I am in the shower stall after swimming in the club’s indoor heated pool. As I revel in the warm water falling on my body, I try, defeatedly, to muffle my daughter’s voice in my head – Mamma, turn off the water when you don’t need it. I reach...
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