After a real long time !

Well hello guys,
In the world of bloggin three years mean nothing less than three decades. Yes, i was away, for a really long time.
The course of life has certainly changed, the preferences too and of course the stories if not changed, have a different angle to them for sure.

So yes, a wife now and mother too *wink*
Remain a foodie and a dreamer. Settled In a completely new geography with tons of newer stories and experiences from this side of the screen.

I am feeling quite overwhelmed to begin again and that has actually taken up quite a lot of time in my restart plans - the dilemma of not knowing where exactly to start from. So I decided today to finally dive in and start afresh from the very beginning, this time my grandparents' story 😊

Upon asking my grandma again and again in our free time when we were kids we heard the same version of a very cute love story again and again. Not k owing what to do this afternoon I decided to shut my eyes for a nap and had this sudden flash of memory that stuck to my head and started tickling me to be penned down as soon as possible. So here it is!

Well, this was back in 1958- long time indeed. When o say 1958 and love story, raises eye brows right? But this one's as real as the sun.
Grandad was 20 grandma 17. Grandad student of the very esteemed Allahabad university also being on the college football and hockey teams, drop dead gorgeous and with an amazing sense of humour (is how she explains it), grandma, in her words, just the opposite. Daughter of a government servant, no school beyond standard 4th, short and dark with unevenly aligned teeth.
They met during a wedding and wessinhs back then were always a super small affair where everyone knew everyone and everyone saw everyone. So they kmsaw and knew each other's families. Turned out her cousin sister was married in the same village  as my grandpa.

Now comes the most interesting part. Upon asking how they managed to carry on their liking and portrayal of love, she tells me, we met in our wedding manual after that but how we carried on was through letters.
Letters passed to and fro by this cousin who was the messenger. And boy she has those letters with her even today!
Her memory has turned demented but how clear as crystal she remembers each of these details. How the marriage was fixed and they began their journey of life together.
How the entire clan and relatives and neighbours and friends exclaimed that grandpa is so ravishing and grandma so sober and still they continued with all the passion for their love. How in almost 6 decades now, he has never raised his voice on her, still makes her bed and outs the mosquito net for them both in the evenings, how she still starts her food only after he has picked up his first bite and how she still has that flutter in her heart when has back from his morning stroll or work (yes hes 84 and still goes to work for two hours a day).

In bits and pieces she also tells me how 'fun loving' he was that he used to the a gajra (flower band) on his wrist and go to watch 'mujras' performed by bai his during his college times along with his elder brother and friends and how she and her co-sister, my cousin grandma used to run to the movies first day first show when their husbands were busy toiling. How they raised my father and his siblings while playing rounds after round of runny as they were nothing like the naughty children of today and how their days were so full yet so beautiful!
She tells me how they used to steal ghee from their own kitchens to escape being chided by their mom's in laws and how they used to wait for the night to fall to meet their own husbands during those times, who died to disguise as women and enter the house to avoid being recognised!
She tells me how simple yet beautiful love was back then, how exciting even if confusing or weird it was.

Planning to bring up more stories by my grandparents here soon since each of them has a beautiful earthen charm to it along with being immensely funny !

Stay blessed and stay beautiful people.
Hopefully we see yours truly here more often now 😊