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Eat, Drink, Be Merry For Tomorrow You Will Die
Sridevi didn’t know she’d be gone too soon. But had she known, would she have lived her life differently? I would.
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A Death Shower for my Parents
As Amma and Appa age, I think about their death frequently. I dread the certainty of their passing, but for them, it is nothing more than the happy end to long, fulfilling lives.
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Raju Srivastava and The Legacy of ‘Gajodhar Bhaiya’
In his prime Raju Srivastava was a brilliant observer and possibly mainstream cable television’s first brush with the heartland.
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The Celebrity Death Syndrome: Mortality on Our Minds
Death happens. We ignore it, if we can. When we can’t, as is in the case of celebrities like Sridevi or a loved one, we rush deep into denial, frantically looking for scapegoats to explain the freak occurrence. And then we move on.
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Death is All Around Us! Why Indians Need to Start Talking about the Will More Openly
The uncertainty that Covid-19 has brought has made most of us acknowledge our mortality. People in their 30s and 40s are rushing to draw up their wills. So why are Indians so wary of them? If you so much as mention one, you risk getting reprimanded, because, thoo thoo, who talks about death like that? Can we really afford to look away now?
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Movies Made Cancer Sexy. My Leukaemia Didn’t Match Up
As a 10-year-old I wondered if I was doing leukaemia right. I was nothing like Jamie from A Walk To Remember or any other dying girls from the movies. I couldn’t captivate hearts by singing, or look cute when chemo made me throw up every day.
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee: The Last of the Moderates
We’ll remember Atal Bihari Vajpayee as the leader with a great capacity for reflection. Unlike so many men in positions of power today, Vajpayee admitted to mistakes, fallibility, and even the odd misplaced idea at times. Forget being a moderate – in the times that we occupy, he now feels like a pacifist.
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How I Learned to Accept the Inevitable and Came to Terms with My Parents’ Mortality
The inevitability of death is at the back of my mind at all times. The thought of a world without my parents terrorises me. But even though the future haunts me, I have vowed to give them the best of everything they deserve.
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What No One Tells You About Losing Your Parents
When you lose both your parents, the constant is the assurance from relatives that you will be fine and things will be brighter. They do get brighter. But what I miss most is that my parents would’ve loved seeing me live my life. If only I could’ve grown up sooner.
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Seeking the Individual Behind My Late Father
Our Parents, to us at least, rarely exist as individuals with their own concerns, anxieties and aspirations. But after my father passed away, peacefully, I reconnected and discovered different sides of him that most men, maybe, hide behind the image of the father figure. I’m glad he got to live those lives.