Kaku Aaji
Words can heal, though I could never really depict the love that she was. There are very few people in this world who get to experience the love of their great grandmother and I was one of the luckiest few. For the past twenty six years, she has been a constant presence, a wall of support and love in my life. Every time I visited her, I was greeted with the warmest and most heartfelt hugs. She would then look at me from top to bottom and announce that I was too thin to survive in this world. Oh, the love of great grandmothers! I knew in my heart that even if I turned out to be a baby elephant, she would be pronouncing me as the thinnest elephant she had come across. Most times, our hugs and kisses would be followed by her taking me to her room. The room was exclusively hers, everyone referred to it as ‘Kaku Aaji’s’ room. Even outsiders knew it. But she welcomed one and all in her homely abode. As we would sit down on her bed to talk about my life, she would happily pull o