Thursday, 6 March 2014

Orbituary



Doomsday
It was 5th November 2011 ,Birthday celebration of my aunt, family had gathered. There was joy, togetherness and happiness, all of us had gathered after a really long time. She was happy to have each everyone visit together, sharing this kind of happiness. She didn’t speak much that day since sudden fever had caught her body making her a bit weak. The doctor visited home, he said “She’s perfectly fine, it’s just mild fever. She survived high blood pressure in June, fever is something much easier to fight. She will live   a 100 years.”
After hearing these confident words from the doctor, everyone seem to be at ease until next day, 6th November,2011 around 6.30 am when she began breathing way heavier than normal. After rushing to the hospital before anyone would even know, she was gone. Reaching the heaven gates, seeing her family together made her smile. Perhaps making me,her grand daughter look at 6th   of every month  as a Doomsday. It is ironical that as I type this obituary, my eye caught the date on the computer screen,it’s 6th of March, 2014. It’s been 2 years and 4months since my maternal grandmother Indira Chetwani left us, smiling and monitoring us from the heaven gates, the beautiful memories with her remain fresh.

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