IN MEMORY, IN MIND AND IN HEART …. YOU REMAIN FOR EVER ….
IN MEMORY, IN MIND AND IN HEART …. YOU REMAIN
FOR EVER …
(This tribute along with Aunty, also goes to Uncle-Dr. Thakur Hareshwar Dayal Sinha, who had passed away in the year 2013. It is a short depiction of my first hand account of my long standing association and relationship at family level with two excellent human beings (Anty and Uncle) who lived in this world, cherished over more than 36years to date)
It was around mid-April, the year1986, more than 36years
back, for the first time, I came to Patna, the capital city of Bihar, the
eastern Indian state (undivided Bihar then, which has been later divided
forming two Indian states, presently named as Bihar and Jharkhand), to join the
Bihar Branch Office of “Amul” (Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation
Limited, Anand, Gujarat), the famous brand of Milk and Dairy products of India,
also globally known now. The Bihar Office of Amul at that time, was looking
after the Amul operations in Bihar as well as Nepal.
I was only 25+ years in age then, all alone, a
bachelor(unmarried) at that time, raw and fresh from the university, after
graduation from OUAT Bhubaneswar, had just completed MBA from IRMA(Institute of
Rural Management Anand), Anand, Gujarat, from the 1984-86 Batch, practically
knew nothing of the city of Patna or the State of Bihar at that time, other
than whatever I had read during my studies from the books of history, geography
and general knowledge or newspapers and media. As a fresh MBA from IRMA, I was
recruited as a Senior Sales Officer by “Amul” to be placed at their Office
located at that time at the main road, named as Boring Canal Road,
Shrkrishnapuri, Patna in a two storied rented building belonging then to a
former Director General of Police(retired) of Bihar. “Amul” being a welfare
oriented co-operative organization of farmers ( precisely dairy farmers of
Gujarat), the salaries of Amul at that time were very low. While MBAs in 1986 or
say around the 1980s in India, were a very rare and demanded breed of
professionals as the MBA Courses were taught hardly in less than a dozen of
reputed Institutions only, while the Salaries and Perks offered to MBAs in the
Private/Industrial Sectors were much more, however, consistent with the mission
of IRMA catering to the requirement of the needy farmers’ organizations at that
time, I took this job of Senior Sales Officer in Amul, having been posted at
Patna (Bihar) with a very small starting salary in 1986..
When I arrived at Patna Railway Station by a train from
Kolkata(Calcutta) on a very hot summer day of mid-April, 1986, a staff of
Amul’s Patna Office received me at the station and put me to stay at a small
Hotel, named as Patna Hotel, located in front of the Railway Station closer to
the Lord Hanuman Temple there. The Patna Hotel was a mediocre lodge basically
catering to the lodging needs of traveling Medical Representatives of various
and all kinds of Pharmaceutical Companies. I was put in a Room having two beds,
I was occupying one bed out of it, and the other bed was being occupied by a
Medical Representative but the person was changing frequently and almost daily,
as the traveling Medical Representatives come to the city for a day or so, and
go to another location for their job. I was commuting from the Patna Hotel near
the Railway Station then, to my Amul Office at Boring Canal Road at
Shrikrishnapuri, by Human Pulled Cycle Rickshaw ( or sometimes also by the shared
auto-rickshaws carrying 6-passengers,). While working at a small salary as a
fresher at that time, this was obvious and understood. As soon as I joined the
Amul Office at Patna, I kept requesting everybody to look for a rented home for
me and everybody as normally happened everywhere, would say they were looking for it, but nothing
was coming into fruits. Therefore, on an off day (holiday of office), I decided
to take up the home searching job myself and I decided to do a house to house
survey myself in the Shrikrishnapuri area of Patna as I liked the locality, it
was close to my office at a small walking distance. and Shrikrishnapuri at that
time was one of the best residential localities of Patna with beautiful houses
around, wide roads and comparable to the best areas of an Indian City then.
After surveying almost two dozen houses, road by road and
lane by lane in Shrikrishnapuri, starting right from the areas behind my office
at Boring Canal Road, where all of them said they did not have any place to
rent out for my residential purpose, but I was quite hopeful and confident that
I will definitely get something that day; I reached the house named as “Banke
Bihari Sadan”, 31A- Shrikrishnapuri, a two storied house. This house as I had
come to know later, was originally built and owned by Late Shri Akhouri Banke
Bihari Lal ( Respected “Nanaji”, the Father of my Aunty- Smt. Sushila Sinha), a
very bright and qualified Engineer of Bihar of its times, who was a former
Superintending Engineer in the PWD department of Government of Bihar.
First Meeting with Respectable “Naniji” (Mrs. Banke Bihari
Lal, the mother of Aunty: Smt. Sushila Sinha):
While I entered this house, the “Banke Bihari Sadan”,
31A-Shrikrishnpuri, I was lucky, at the first sight, I could see a respectable
old lady sitting on a slouching wooden chair on its front corridor in front of
the main door at the entrance to the house. The old lady was none other than
Mrs. Banke Bihari Lal (Respected Naniji). I asked her, “If there is a place, I
can stay in this house on rental basis?”. She keenly looked at my face, after a
little pause, she replied, “You look to be a nice and innocent boy, therefore,
I may think of it”. Then she asked and wanted to know little bit about my back ground when I
explained her, how I was from Odisha, went to study in Gujarat and then had
come to work as a Senior Sales Officer at the Amul Office at Boring Canal Road
nearby. She understood everything from me and finally said, “I have decided, to
give you a place in this house to stay, the rentals whatever could be that can
be decided by my daughter, but under one condition if you agree that you will
call the Doctor when I fall sick”. I said with due humility, “If I stay in this
house with you, and if you fall sick, how will it happen that I will not call
the Doctor or take you to the Doctor, definitely it will be my responsibility.
And I agree to your condition and I will meet this responsibility for sure”.
Then she said, “In that case, come and meet my daughter tomorrow morning, she
has gone out and not at home right now. Look at the Portico Garage just beside
( while a Black Coloured Ambassador Car Numbered as BRA-6 was parked in side)
and above that in the first floor, there is a self-contained Guest Room with an
attached toilet inside, a road facing large Balcony and separate entrance through
the staircase, that should meet your need for now”. Later when I started
staying in the same house, I realized, the “Respectable Naniji” had so much of
reputed Doctors among her family and relatives that I was too small a fry to
help her in any way, she just tested my mind, that was all. As long as I was in
Patna until 1990, respected Naniji was in life, she would definitely send
somebody to call for me when she did not see me for a day and often she liked
to chat freely with me speaking up her mind in all issues she liked, and later
she had departed from the world.
First Meeting with my Aunty-
Smt. Sushila Sinha ( Mrs. Dr. Thakur Hareshwar Dayal Sinha ):
Next day ( next to the aforesaid day of meeting Respected
Naniji ) I went to the house, “Banke Bihari Sadan”, 31A-Shrikrishnapuri, Patna, to meet the
daughter of Naniji, the Respected Aunty-Smt. Sushila Sinha (Mrs. Dr. Thakur
Hareshwar Dayal Sinha ). At the first sight, she was very welcoming, but I was
really very scared of her at that time without anticipating anything. A very
gracious middle aged lady then, quite motherly and influential personality at
that time, in good control of the house; I just stood before her bowing my head
with due respect saying “I had met your mother yesterday, and she had asked to
come and meet you today”. She replied
very soberly saying, “Yes, my mother has
told me everything about your meeting with her yesterday. She has liked you to
stay here. She has also allowed you to stay in our Guest Room that she has mentioned
to you in the first floor of the house. Once my mother has agreed and allowed
you to stay in this house, it is final for me. You can come and stay there. It
was earlier used as our guest room, but have not been used for some time, I
will get it cleaned for you. I will also send a wooden rack to be placed there
so that you can keep a stove above it and prepare anything if you like for you”.
A token rental was agreed and decided among
us (that I would not like to discuss here in all fairness to my well respected relationship
with my Aunty and her family). During the discussion, as normally happens in
the very first meeting, as I just pronounced her once as “Madam” since I was
fresh from the University then and the university habit still existed with me,
she very politely but strictly said “You can call me Aunty and not Madam any
more”. That was my homecoming, in
mid-April, 1986, to “Banke Bihari Sadan”, 31A-Shrikrishnapuri, Patna,
and no looking back till today in 2022, more than 36years have already passed. I
was never made to feel to be somebody who was an outsider there or outsider to
the family, I was very much a part and member of the family living there. My Respected
Aunty-Smt Sushila Sinha ( Mrs. Dr. Thakur Hareshwar Dayal Sinha ), from that
day, had proved and displayed with due authenticity that she was a mother who loved and cared the best, and she had met the
responsibility of a mother at every step that came in my stride, till her very end
until 30th May 2022(hardly a few days back), nothing in deficiency. My
Aunty-Smt. Sushila Sinha was a qualified Graduate and Alumnus of her times from
well known Patna Womens’ College, with modern and decent outlook, with an
excellent sense of humour to express rightly at right place at right time, an
well understanding, most loving and caring mother ( also a nice daughter of her
parents, and a very decent and understanding holding-lady of the family, at one
go, holding the extended and joint family both at parental side and at her
in-law side cohesively together ), par excellence of her times.
( Former Professor of Physics, Patna Commerce College )
The further next day ( the day next to meeting with
Aunty-Smt. Sushila Sinha ) while I came to stay in the house, “Banke Bihari
Sadan”, 31A-Shrikrishhapuri, Patna, my Aunty called me to her floor on the
ground and introduced to Uncle (her husband)-Dr. Thakur Hareshwar Dayal Sinha
who was at that time, the incumbent Professor of Physics at Patna Commerce
College (the college was named as the Commerce College, however was having the
Science Faculty where Uncle was the Professor and HOD). My uncle Dr. Thakur
Hareshwar Dayal Sinha, Ph.D. in Physics, a very Bright Physicist of his times, came
from a very well known and well to do family of Daltonganj, was quite down to
earth, very sober, loving and caring, quite affable personality, welcomed me to
the house. He had a long chat with me in the first meeting, he explained me a
lot of things about the City of Patna to which I was just the novice and new, the
Place, the People and many things that would come in handy living there, it was
quite enlightening for me. From that day, he conducted as a friend, philosopher
and guide to me at Patna in every step, in addition to meeting the
responsibility as uncle with nothing less than the fatherly kind of love,
affection and care a father can extend to a kid, all through till his very end
in life in 2013 (exactly on 05-July-2013).
Living with Aunty and Uncle and the Family at Patna from 1986
to 1990 …..and Thereafter :
As aforesaid, it was my home coming to “Banke Bihari Sadan”,
31A-Shrikrishnapuri, Patna, in the Mid- April,1986 through its Guest Room. I
stayed being very closely nit with the family from 1986 to 1990 at Patna.
Initially I started living in the single Guest Room above the portico-garage in
the first floor in 1986, while at the same time in the First Floor of the
House, Shri Ajay Singh, the then Branch Manager(Head) of SBI (State Bank of
India), Patna Main Branch, was living in its front part and another family was
living at the back part ( there were two parts for family living in the first
floor), and my Aunty with Uncle and their family including “Naniji”( the mother
of Aunty) was living in the entire Ground Floor of the House. After my marriage
in 1989, when my wife Trupti (nick name-Jolly), came from Odisha along with me,
I lived with my wife again in the bigger front part of the First Floor, as that
was vacated by Shri Ajay Singh of SBI and his family had moved out by then.
While I stayed in Patna from 1986 to 1990 in the same house, both Aunty and
Uncle made it sure that I remained in comfort, very much a part and partial of
the house and a family member as well, to the extent that, the close friends of
Aunty and Uncle in Patna, when they used to visit and did not find me in the
house in any occasion, would fondly ask Aunty saying, “Muni(Aunty’s nick name)
where is your 3rd Son?” (as Aunty and Uncle were biologically blessed
with two sons). Around 1986, their elder son Vikas (Thakur Vikas Sinha) was studying
Engineering at IT-BHU ( recognized as IIT-BHU now) and after finishing it, Vikas
immediately moved to Jamshedpur to do MBA at XLRI-Jamshedpur and after
completing MBA, Vikas first joined CMC Limited ( the erstwhile Computer
Behemoth of India ) at Calcutta, while I was still there in Patna; presently he
is well placed as a Director in the Giant Polaris Software Group of India. Their
younger and 2nd Son, Subhash ( Thakur Subhash Sinha) in around 1986,
used to be studying B.Sc. at Patna Science College and later he moved to Delhi
for further Post-Graduate Studies and he qualified and joined the Indian Civil
Services in Indian Postal Service; presently
he is well placed, working for United Nations (Universal Postal Union -UPU ) at
Switzerland. Both the sons of Uncle and Aunty, Vikas and Subhash, have been
very good Friends as well as Brothers to me since then from 1986 with excellent
relationship, rarely cherished. While staying with Aunty and Uncle at Patna, I
also got to closely know, most or almost all of their family members from both
Uncle’s parental side and Aunty’s parental side. Prominently from Aunty’s
parental side, got to know well the families and children of her brothers; Shri
K.K. Srivastava, IAS, who was incumbent Chief Secretary of Bihar State at that
time, and Dr. D. K. Srivastava, a Reputed and Renowned Doctor (Psychiatrist,
Professor of Medical College) and most of the others. Prominently from Uncle’s
Parental side, got to know well, his parents who were well known and living
then at Daltonganj (Respected Dadaji and Dadiji -the Father and Mother of Uncle
respectively), the families and children of his Brothers, respected Dr. Thakur
Kanhaiya Dayal Sinha, a reputed and prominent Doctor of Bihar ( ENT Specialist)
living then at Daltonganj, and respected Dr. Thakur Ramaiya Dayal Sinha,
another reputed and prominent Doctor of Bihar(Professor of Ophthalmology at
Ranchi Medical College then) and also the sisters of Uncle and their children
as well. Even got to know well, the families of Prominent Close Friends of
Uncle and Aunty at Patna, such as respected Shri Akhouri Bhubaneshwar Prasad (
Former Professor ) and his better-half aunty, a Prominent Doctor at Patna – Dr.
Manjula Prasad ( Manjula aunty ).
It was my Aunty- Smt. Sushila Sinha who played a pivotal role
along with Uncle to bind me quite cohesively with the families, relatives and
friends of both Uncle and Aunty. There was no occasion of their family and
friends, where I was not invited or not asked to be present and be a part of
it. Where ever Aunty and Uncle would like to visit and join in functions and
ceremonies such as marriages etc., first Aunty would call me to accompany them
as a Family Member and Uncle would definitely pull me in affection and make
sure that, I accompany them as a part of the family. Whenever I used to fall
sick, both Aunty and Uncle would arrange to get medical attention for me
through their relatives and friends. Everybody of their families, relatives and
friends including their Children everywhere, would care for me as a member of
their family. To such an extent; I was fortunate to enjoy their parental love
and care all through. Almost every day when she sees me, my Aunty would enquire
whether I had lunch or dinner or not. Many days, as always there used to be
people and visitors around and her kitchen would be running with full force,
with some house helps placed regularly, Aunty would invariably ask(it can’t be
named invitation within the family) just to come down and have dinner/lunch at
her ground floor. The Uncle would be there to reinforce this call, it is quite
difficult to forget such gestures of both of them.
Coincidently, my marriage in Odisha, and the marriage of
Vikas (Thakur Vikas Sinha) the elder son of Aunty and Uncle at Patna, took
place on the same day in 1989. After my wife Trupti(Jolly) joined me in the
house at Patna, she was treated by both Uncle and Aunty as good as their own
Daughter-in-law, I have to acknowledge it humbly. Vikas got married to Pinky(
Ms. Amita Sinha), the daughter of respected Mrs and Dr.(Mr.) Bibhuti Bhushan
Sinha, the reputed, most prominent and renowned
Doctor of Medicine, while their family also got merged with all of us and they
extended all the love and care equally to us. Later on Subhash(Thakur Subhas
Sinha), the younger son of Aunty and Uncle, got married to Deepa (Ms.
Deepanjali Sinha) the daughter of Shri S K Sahay, from a Prominent family of
Patna. Both Pinky and Deepa have been very kind and cordial to us all times.
After a few days of my marriage in 1989, when my in-laws from Odisha, Mrs and
Mr. Pankaj Lochan Rout, who was serving as the Dy. Director of Mines in Govt of
Odisha then, visited us at Patna at the same house, both Aunty and Uncle
welcomed them and treated them most hospitably, it is well remembered.
In 1986, I had come to Patna, Bihar, all alone as a 25+year
old boy from Odisha, raw and fresh from the University at Gujarat, to start
doing just a job at Patna covering entire Bihar and Nepal then, knowing little
of the realities of the world at that time. In fact, the day I accepted the
employment offer from Amul at Anand, Gujarat, by campus placement, to be placed
at their Patna Office in 1986, while the MBA Course was to be concluded after
few days by Convocation to be addressed by Shri Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime
Minister of India, I was rather discouraged by a lot of people then in Anand in
Gujarat and elsewhere, saying it was a difficult place then and why was I going
to take up a job there. Practically, there was nobody known to me other than a
couple of persons of Odisha origin working there with different banking jobs at
a distance. The Office atmosphere there was very politicking and for some
period there was a non-supportive and hostile boss from Punjab. But, once I was
with my Aunty and Uncle, their support, love and care, and the support, love
and care from their family, relatives and friends and everybody there, it was
quite motivating and proved contrary to what people had speculated about the
place, before I came there. I never felt I went to any difficult place. Being
in charge of both Bihar(undivided Bihar, both Bihar and Jharkhand now) and Nepal as a different
country for Amul operations, I traveled extensively, for 4-years in Bihar and
Nepal. Yes, there were certain hardships definitely doing a job, where some harassments
in various ways did happen whether in office or outside, however as I said, for the support, love and care of the
Aunty and Uncle, their family, relatives and friends, I was able to guard me
off well and I could remain and come out triumphant, I must acknowledge it
humbly.
After I moved out of Patna on transfer to Cuttack (to look
after Odisha operations of Amul) in 1990-91, while over time, I also kept growing
on career ladder, thereafter moving again on transfer to Ahmedabad in 1995 ( as
Zonal Head covering the states of Gujarat, MP(undivided), Rajasthan and union
territories of Daman and Diu), while I stayed in Ahmedabad until 2005 (changing
jobs there in between ), all along the Aunty and Uncle have been in touch, may
be out of sight for some time at a distance, but never out of their mind and my
mind. Always the Aunty would make a phone call periodically whenever it comes
to her mind, but she would make a call
for sure or sometimes Uncle would phone, while of course, I did call them
periodically.
In between, Vikas ( Thakur Vikas Sinha, the elder son of
Uncle and Aunty) also moved from Kolkata to Mumbai on his job placement requirement
and it was possible to meet Uncle and Aunty and everybody physically at Mumbai again while I was living at Ahmedabad.
On some occasions when Subhash ( while he was working for the ministry of
Posts, Government of India) visited Ahmedabad, he made a point to visit my
house as well. Accepting my invitation and request, while they were visiting
Mumbai, both Aunty and Uncle came to Ahmedabad un-hesitantly in 2004 and stayed
with us for few days to move around Ahmedabad in Gujarat happily. In 2006, while
I was working on a new assignment as the Managing Director of an EU
Organization (Spanish Group) for India and Asian region, I moved to Mumbai, and
started living very close to the house of Vikas and in the same area in Powai.
It was possible to meet the Aunty and Uncle regularly while they visited Mumbai
and stayed with Vikas and Pinky and their Children. Whenever the Aunty and
Uncle visited the house of Vikas at Mumbai, they would definitely make a point,
to visit my house and meet my family without fail.
My children(both my daughters Upasana and Aradhana as well as
my son Abedan) have never felt that my Aunty and Uncle were less than their
biological Grand Parents. Both Aunty and Uncle have always proved by their
love, affection and care as well as actions that, they were nothing less than biological
grand parents. That has been the kind of enduring and unstinted relationship
for more than 36years till date and their departure from the world. The Family
of Vikas and Pinky(Amita) with their children (son-Niket and daughter-Vanika),
as well as the family of Subhash and Deepa with their Children ( daughters-Sukriti,
Ayushi and Astha ) have never felt that my family members are any outsiders in
any way, the respect, the love and care have remained intact all through. My
wife Trupti (Jolly) was always treated lovingly and respectfully by both Aunty
and Uncle as a daughter-in-law.
In July 2013, shortly after celebrating his birthday at
Mumbai, Uncle ( Dr. Thakur Hareshwar Dayal Sinha ) had gone to his parental
native place Daltonganj and one day, he made a phone call to me in the morning from
Daltonganj saying, “ I had come to Daltonganj on some household work, but now having
very bad fever and really not feeling well and feeling somewhat down, but
Kanhayaji ( his younger brother, the reputed ENT Specialist Doctor of
Daltonganj) is arranging for treatment”. I said; “Uncle, wish you speedy recovery
and see you soon at Mumbai”. The very next day (it was the 05th July
2013 ), we received the message at Mumbai, that the respected Uncle was no
more, had left the world. It was a real heart-breaking news to tear me and my
family, all of us apart, but no choice.
After July 2013 departure of Uncle, it was Aunty ( Smt. Sushila Sinha ) who was performing practically the role of both Uncle and Aunty since then perfectly. In order to not give too much emotional sock to Aunty, since 2013 when uncle had passed away, whenever me or my family met Aunty, we did not bring in too much of the subject of Uncle, but it was always in mind and understood. Writing it now, while Aunty has also left the world just on 30th May 2022, hardly a few days back.
After 2013-14, Vikas (Thakur Vikas Sinha) had to also move out of Mumbai to Chennai, as per his job placement need for 5years, while Aunty used to be in Chennai with his family, but she was always in touch, she would invariably make phone calls periodically to check for our wellbeing at Mumbai. In every call, I would say, “Aunty, I am going to phone you before you call me next”. But she would make sure to phone, before I could make a call next time, that was her sincerity and dedication to the relationship with me and my family, really very special.
Vikas came back again to Mumbai, with his job posting in
2019-20, and started living not very far from my house, though not in the same
local area. It gave opportunities to see Aunty physically at the house of Vikas
at Mumbai and interact very closely. During the Covid-19 pandemic, while it
continued for almost 2years since end of 2019 and physical meetings were almost
impossible due to various restrictions all around, still Aunty would make phone
calls to check our where abouts and well being. Since 2019-20 after Vikas came
to Mumbai and we went to visit Aunty in his house, I was told that Aunty had
developed some health issues, that required serious attentions and watch, but
it was under necessary treatment and monitoring and it was really very painful
to hear for all of us without choice.
Thereafter, for about a year since 2021, Aunty (Smt. Sushila
Sinha) had to go through various critical illness situations from time to time,
it was understood and without choice, but no stone was unturned by the family
in all possible ways providing her the support in fighting her illness to bring
her back to life reasonably by acquiring the best possible treatment facilities
available, in home or outside home in hospitals and by best attention from the
family 24 hours. She had to go through hospitalizations on two occasions in
last one year, for weeks together at one go, once in May-June, 2021 and again
in August-September, 2021 at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital at Mumbai.
Luckily, my younger daughter Aradhana works in the said hospital as a Doctor
and Aradhana tried to put best possible efforts during day and night along with
her Senior Doctors at the Hospital for the most respectable and popular “Dadima”(my
Aunty). Both the occasions, Aunty had recovered (of course as a strong fighter
herself) and had come back home reasonably well considering her situation of
health issues involved.
While Pinky and Vikas ( Mrs. and Mr. Thakur Vikas Sinha, the
elder son of Aunty) who lived and stayed with her attending 24 hours all the
days at Mumbai in their house, they also ensured the best medical facilities
are acquired and placed at home itself so that Aunty is able to fight her
illness in the best possible ways. Even Deepa and Subhash ( Mrs and Mr. Thakur Subhash Sinha the younger
son of Aunty ) had to fly out of Switzerland to Mumbai at least on repeated
occasions for weeks /months together during last one year to attend to Aunty at
the times of need. My aunty was really a strong fighter with strong mental
capability to sustain, who loved this world very much, who loved the people at
large and who also fought, tolerated and accepted this world very much with due
respects, but some day it is the end that remained to be sure, she reached it
ultimately and she accepted it to leave this world only on 30th May
2022.
My two daughters, both Upasana and Aradhana, by this time who
being Doctors also by profession, have been in exposure with my Aunty as the respected
“Dadima”(Grand Mother), especially the younger one, Aradhana being a Doctor
working in her treatment hospital, had to be involved with Aunty from close proximity.
Both of them, not only as Doctors professionally but also otherwise as the
family members, have been very sad by the departure of the respected “Dadima”
for them. For every one of my family, my Aunty has been wonderful and generous
in loving and caring, who remains unforgettable along with Uncle, and in memory
for all times to come.
It goes without saying, Aunty was such a nice human being, while
she was invariably concerned of wellbeing of every family member, relatives and
friends. It was obvious, that the relatives and friends of the family in around
Mumbai or elsewhere in Patna or at other places, including who have been in
medical profession also, have been quite supportive as it came and as was
needed from time to time.
For me, I consider, I was most fortunate to be living at
Mumbai to be able to visit and see my Aunty, a wonderful mother, a wonderful
human being, who really loved and cared so much, towards her last stage of
life, in first hand from time to time until her very end on 30th May
2022. Towards even her last stage of life, until she was able to do it, she
would pick up the phone and make a call to me whenever she felt. She was always
very happy to see and convey her happiness in meeting, she had no expectation,
but she was very generous in her lap, to accommodate and make everyone as good
as her own. On 24th May 2022, Tuesday, only 10days back, while I
visited and met her, she was till in senses and in emotions, though was not
able to speak clearly, but she was able understand and comprehend, she was still
able to convey by mouth though not very clear, also by action signals; she was
very happy to see me, but at the same time, she was getting emotional while
still in some pains. I held her hand, tried to massage gently, she felt it and
shed tears, I wiped the tears from her eyes by a tissue, she did shed tears
again and it happened 3-times. After 24th May 2022, I did visit
twice, but it was not possible to capture her senses. In the early morning of
30th May 2022, Subhash (her younger son) made the phone call, saying,
it seemed it was the end, and it was really the end and her departure from this
life and this world.
My Aunty -Smt. Sushila Sinha who was playing the roles of
both Aunty and Uncle since 2013, as Uncle- Dr. Thakur Hareshwar Dayal Sinha had
departed in the year 2013, finally with her departure from this world on 30th
May 2022 has created the unforgettable physical vacuum of both of them
effective from 30th May 2022, possibly she departed to be united
with uncle again, happily in the heaven.
However I
would say, “Aunty ! you along with Uncle, IN MEMORY, IN MIND AND IN HEART ….
YOU REMAIN and YOU REMAIN FOR EVER ….
I stay with the Children, Family. Relatives and Friends of
Aunty and Uncle as always.
With best respects, and prayers for the Noble Soul to Rest in
Peace,
Nimain Charan Biswal
( Biswal )
Mumbai, India , 4th June, 2022
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