Comments | deponti: My father and progress in the seventies...

deponti

My father and progress in the seventies...

Nov 12, 2009 20:41

My father...I've never written about him, for some reason. Like all caring and resposible fathers...an amazing guy. Born to easy affluence as the son of someone who was the Financial Advisor to the Government of India, and who earned an OBE, or Order of the British Empire, he really enjoyed a princely lifestyle, shuttling between Delhi and Shimla, ( Read more... )

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rfc9000 November 12 2009, 20:27:25 UTC

Like all fathers...an amazing guy.
I loved this line :)

deponti November 13 2009, 00:11:54 UTC

Well....so many of them ARE. Their links with their children is often more tenuous than those of the mother...but run deep and strong. I feel that good fathers are appreciated rather less than good mothers!

shortindiangirl November 14 2009, 03:25:49 UTC

I don't know, I appreciate my good father deeply. It's interesting how the gender role makes each parent unique but equally intensely important.

deponti November 14 2009, 03:39:12 UTC

I was speaking *generally*. Your father is very unusual..and very special...I don't know many Indian men who would take on a caregiver's role like this...alone!

I notice on Skype that he simply showers kisses on The Biddles..warms the cockles of my heart to see that he never picks her up or touches her without a loving kiss or two!

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deponti November 13 2009, 02:22:55 UTC

Calcutta Doordarshan had a very nice short documentary on him when he died....about how a non-Bengali made it so high.

amoghavarsha November 13 2009, 10:45:06 UTC

sweet :)

birdonthewire November 13 2009, 17:58:24 UTC

Great post! Enjoyed reading this :) And wherever did you find that clipping?

deponti November 13 2009, 23:22:28 UTC

My mother had saved several newspapers and clippings..and my sis in law's dad, while cleaning up, found a box of them.I also got the announcements of our wedding, and of Anjana's birth.... :) In those days, an announcement in the newspapers was de rigeur, apart from letters to everyone...and telegrams...and "trunk calls" which took ages to get through....

birdonthewire November 14 2009, 11:55:05 UTC

Ah, neat...I remember being so stunned when I found the "license" for my dad's television. Issued sometime in 1980, I think. More than anything else, that told me everything I needed to know about the "license raj" days!

Some day, maybe my daughter will my find school diary and post my first ever poem :-)

deponti November 14 2009, 12:03:40 UTC

Save them up. But..the deliciousness of it is that you never know WHAT will be found, and what will go off into that ocean of junk...!