Dear Latakaki and Anilkaka,
The horrific incident of Sunday morning at your house leads us to believe that despite your teaching and us listening, we have not bothered to implement the same. Also we have not accepted you as ours despite you accepting us wholeheartedly and in entirety. If that was the case someone would have remembered to put off the airconditioner. A glaring act of omission that had ghastly consequences, physical and emotional. Ironically your lecture a day earlier was about discipline.
Latakaki, the emotional tumult that you must have gone through on seeing everything associated with your Dream-the Shibir-, the memories associated with each and every photograph, painting, article. Most were done by your grandchildren over 16 years. Irreparable and irreplaceable.
Every action of yours on that fateful day symbolizes the very essence of discipline. Self control. You and Anilkaka handled everything so smoothly. Right from the time you became aware of the fire to locking yourself in the room, showed us that in any situation to respond is better than to react. This presence of mind even when you were convalescing. We want to be you.
Shocked as we were by the news, we felt the right way to respond was to do something for you. Dhanashri and Yashodhan along with his friends spent the entire of Sunday morning firstly drawing- the topic being ‘Freedom’. Yashodhan’s drawing was titled ‘Unity is Strength’ and was apt for the crisis. After the drawing got over we sang two Shibir songs, ‘Deep se deep’ and ‘Sooraj zara’.
Sad are we for what has happened but glad we are for you and Kaka are there. We promise to work much harder towards your dream.
A special thank you to Gargi, Dnyanesh and Anand Naik and most of all little Ananya.
Sachin, Dhanashri and Yashodhan.
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