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20 October 2010

dwadashi in baghbazar

dwadashi was a day we stayed home and waited for relatives and acquaintances coming for tika. it was a steady stream that peaked before lunch time. guests included relatives close and distant, mami's acquaintances from her association with mahila sangathan, padma kanya college and tara gaon. a sprinkling of the day's flavour...

sneha pandey, kaki's grand-daughter, snuggled up to mami!

mami was sabitri bajai (govinda's mother and tara prasad's sasu)...

pashupati and his family...

mami with jamuna, who used to visit mami very frequently with her numerous dukkha and problems!

jamuna found time to update us and other visitors, including pushpalatadi with her current ailments and problems!

mami's old colleague and friend pushpalatadi receiving blessings from her

purna narayan and ramcha's parivar

dada dropped by to take aashirwaad from muwa...

... and also managed to take an armful of goodwill from mami too!!

balkrishna and raj kumar's growing family...all smiles

mami's mama's daughters.. punyasheela didi, baba didi and sushila didi

muwa came down two floors to put tika on her brother keshari raj buwa...

...also to keshrairaj buwa's youngest son, kailash, who's in town from the usa

popi (my cousin, sameer) gets warm greetings from mami

binda didi's turn

renudijju's 'mother-daughter-grandaughter' tika train

sri ranga dai (muwa's bhanij)dropped by

muwa loved to show visitors how old she was getting (she's 95), how her maasu has left the haad and how her gold bangles now go way up her hands.. yahan samma pugney bhayi sakyo!

mami with engineer umesh bahadur malla.. a 'colleague' from padma kanya and tara gaon days

bhairabi and her sister sabitri with their children

the day had been a wonderfully bright one


as the sun headed behind the hills...

its rays lit up kot danda

a close up of the western flanks of kot... our house also visible just below the rows of 'plotting'...