(April 5, 6:42pm)

It was lovely meeting Mrs G yesterday....Mom's former princi and noted academician is a lady of sort...surprisingly sprightly for an 81-year-old, and just as much zingy and informed!

She's been one of mumma's closest pal and admirer...whenever she visited her, and which she did often, Mrs G would ask her sing or play some instrument...or just talk over theologies and other subjects...food for the intellect types mostly...identical of bongs anyway..

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Her only dot lives in Ahemedabad, and since she's not the type who can confine into a small apartment in a big city, she's refused to move in with her son-in-law there..

And is alone in her 7000 sq ft mansion in New Dak Bungalow, along with a battery of servants and other staffs...she keeps herself busy with domesticity, and reads voraciously at even this age..and not the serious stuff only..quiz her with Chetan bhagat culture and im sure she'd be tops..

She misses mom miserably, and though im a just poor facsimile of hers, i have started visiting her occasionally.. and i guess she doesnt find me all that poor copy of muma...

May be thats because while on intellectual chatting sprees, i carefully pilot the talks on only literature and bit of western philosophy...while conveniently evading the volumes of other works, that she would discuss with mumma often..

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Anyways, it was a nice time there...she inquired about my finances and was not very happy to learn the answers..."How could she be so careless as to not bequeath you even a house?" she sighed..she told me how she consistently tried influencing her against her mindless expenses..and of-course against playing the Samaritan always..

"Anyway whats gone is gone..." i tried pacifying her...but i guess she was too baffled about my future...okay she knows i have a job, and i can sustain things adequately..but that's it..adequately..she knows about our lineage..and hence she also knows adequate is just too trifle...she wants me to live just as elitely as mom had..and her father and grandfathers had..

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She asked me about "him" too...and when i told her how "he" has left me in the lurch, and not once wished to know how i was doing, "Scounddrelll"...she almost bellowed in a gust of rage!

and then advised me how to get muma's dues and then invest them very wisely...so as to maintain myself, as well as the family name...and yes, she was mighty impressed with the ToI thing...

She proposed that i had dinner there, but i excused myself...but the tea was too good...it reminded me of mumma again..she too was very picky with her aromas and ordered them specially from elsewhere..

Anyway..it was nice seeing her...i felt at home after really long time..

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