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Ultano Kindelan's avatar

Pallavi this is your most moving and beautiful article…It made me feel that somehow your Mum is alive in you. She will keep lighting up your days and help you overcome your sadness

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Pallavi Aiyar's avatar

Thank you, Ultano. Yes, I like to think she will always live in me.

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Narayani's avatar

Beautiful. As was your Mom.

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Pallavi Aiyar's avatar

She was beautiful, indeed.

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Georgina Salgado's avatar

Qué belleza de texto, querida Pallavi ❤️‍🩹.

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Pallavi Aiyar's avatar

Gracias, Georgina. Un abrazo fuerte

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Shada Islam's avatar

So moving, so beautifully written and expressed. May your mother rest in peace. May you be forever healthy 😘🧿❤️

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Pallavi Aiyar's avatar

Thanks, Shada. Appreciated.

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Oliver Craske's avatar

This is so beautiful.

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Pallavi Aiyar's avatar

Thanks, Oliver.

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Ravi's avatar

Look forward to read more

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Ravi's avatar

I have just begun to read your blogs. I am 73 and I feel so happy to hold your hand and go back into the nostalgic, pure and simple past which you narrate nay recreate so well. God bless

Ravi

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Pallavi Aiyar's avatar

Thank you for this lovely comment!

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Ritambhara Singh's avatar

I cried reading this. I never experienced the love of a mother in my life, but somehow this post made me experience a mother's selfless love. Agar hota to kaisa hota, shayad aisa hi hota

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Sajid's avatar

I wish this for my children- “It is one of life’s great gifts for a grandchild to be able to “mother” a grandparent. They will never have that opportunity again.”

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RJ's avatar

This is truly one of the most powerful pieces on grief I have ever read. Your words on grief being like a shadow that follows you around growing bigger and then smaller and then bigger again move me to tears each time I read them (and I have read this piece several times). Your mother who I met a few times really was like a star. I lost my mother when I was just short of 4 and still miss her, sometimes very little, sometimes a lot. Because I lost her so young I always wonder if she loved me. I wish I had some words of hers for me. You are very lucky to have those notes from your mother. Thank you for sharing them. I felt somehow as if my mother was also speaking to me through those notes..

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Kartik Varma's avatar

Gosh this made me cry. Thank you for sharing this.

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Sweta Pachlangiya's avatar

Beautiful ❤️❤️ and my heart filled up as i read your mom's notes. God bless her soul, and may be you witness the birth of another star soon

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Pallavi Aiyar's avatar

Thank you.

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Brinda Crishna's avatar

This touched my soul and made me cry. Thanks for such a beautiful piece.

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Anil Rajvanshi's avatar

Pallavi. Your mother was a remarkable person. Such a death comes only to noble souls. May she get a great body and a very nice home.

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Moira Shourie's avatar

Thank you for sharing her notes with us.

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Reuben Jadhav's avatar

Profoundly evocative. Much liked.

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