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Hi I am Smita, Author of "26 words - A to Z of Short Stories" by Smita Pal. A working mother to a naughty and cute toddler and this blog has posts about parenting, pregnancy, food, lifestyle, reviews, stories and life.

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One of Baba’s Ex SBI colleagues shared this eulo

One of Baba’s Ex SBI colleagues shared this eulogy on his FB wall on his birthday, 30th Aug. 12 days after he left us. He would have turned 67.
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A Stephanian through and through, Dad was our thesaurus, Encyclopaedia and a mini computer combined into one. He was our Google Baba. I have never known or met anyone else who was as sharp in Maths & Physics, had a flair for numbers and was as fluent in languages too. He had an impressive vocabulary and was a bibliophile if ever there was one; the only person I know who wasn’t an English Lit Grad yet had read the full Iliad and Odyssey and the full unabridged works of Shakespeare.
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An epistemophile and an Anglophile who taught me that the best way to become a good writer was by not being a sesquipedalian. I only inherited part of his eloquence and none of his mathematical genius and thus had to drop Maths midway in my 11th Std after having over ambitiously taken up the Biology + Mathematics stream. I wish I had inherited his knack for numbers, may be then I could have become an engineer but Dad never complained neither did he ever burden us with any expectations. Dad himself had cracked IIT though, but had chosen St Stephens college as he wanted to pursue Masters in Physics.
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He was a genuinely good man never wishing anyone any harm. Dad could never be a fake person showing off that he was very helpful or friendly only to get popularity in return. But would go out of his way to help when someone needed it. He hated sycophants and was a man of principles for whom honesty in his work was his life’s earning. Integrity was what Pal Saheb was known for throughout his life, he never much cared for popularity.
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It cuts like the jagged edges of a serrated knife through my heart every time I have to use ‘was’ to describe the person who taught me whatever good I have in me.
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#missyoueveryday #missyoubaba #iloveyoudad #rememberingpapa #rememberingpalsaheb

It has been 27 days and nights since we lost Baba.

It has been 27 days and nights since we lost Baba. My Dad, the one person who gave me my life, was always there whenever I needed him, was the first one to celebrate the slightest of my smiles and the one person who was always there to hold my hand if I fell down. It didn’t matter to him whether I was wrong or right. He was always there to tell me that it’s going to be ok. I wasn’t there to hold his hand or to tell him it’s going to be ok when he left us just like that on the evening of 19th August. And now I have to learn to live with that and the only person who could have explained to me how to deal with it, is dead now. It’s like I have lost a limb and there is a void which will never be filled again. Is it fair to die at 66 years of age and why do some people get to live to be 100? Do they have books on how to deal with loosing a parent? Thank you to each one of you who reached out to me and those of you who listened to me talking for hours. Thank you to those of you whose calls I didn’t pick or didn’t answer your DMs and you understood. I miss you everyday Baba. You were the best father in the world, a gem of a person and the most brilliantly intelligent man.
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#missyoueveryday #iloveyoudad

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A home is made with a quart of hopes, a smattering of dreams and a dash of love, all folded in with a pinch of warmth.
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