This photograph was taken around 2000, in my parents retirement home in Pune Mother with our dear family friend Gurdip Singh, on his farm in Kulwedhi, near Kunjpura around 1973 These happy photos of my parents were taken in the Doon School, around 1972 God made a wonderful mother / A mother who never grows… Read More Georgina Pinto Lobo (Jean Simeon): August 8, 1924 – December 2, 2004
Today is my dear father’s 107th birthday, he was born this day in Allahabad in 1918; just before the end of the first world war. I have written about him before, so will not repeat myself: this is what I posted on his centenary in 2018; it contains a short account of his life. And… Read More Lt Col Eric Simeon’s 107th birthday: October 29, 1918 – October 29, 2025
NB: May 15 is the eighteenth anniversary of my father’s passage into eternity. He died in the Research and Referral Military Hospital in Delhi on this day in 2007; and was given a military funeral at the Army cremation grounds. Scores of his old students, many of them senior military and service officers were present… Read More Street Cafe
An excerpt from Adman Madman by Rupangi Sharma and Prahlad Kakar NB: Prahlad and I go back sixty-three years, so he is among the few l can classify as chaddi dost. I first saw him in knickers and hairy legs when his mum, a friend of my parents, brought him to the Sainik School Kunjpura… Read More Memoir: Prahlad Kakar and Dilip Simeon: A Friendship in the Shadow of the Naxals
First posted October 29, 2022 Today is my father’s 104th birthday. Beneath the photograph (taken in the early 1960’s) are posts commemorating his centenary in 2018, (which contains a short account of his life) ; and a remembrance of Sainik School Kunjpura, of which he was the Founder Principal Lt Col Eric Simeon’s hundredth birthday:… Read More Lt Col Eric Simeon. October 29, 1918 – May 15, 2007
NB: I first posted this remembrance of my schooldays in 2018 (it was written in 2008). I dedicate it to my late parents as well as to all my schoolmates, especially those, like my friend Umang, who are no more. Salute! Dilip From Recess: The Penguin Book of Schooldays Palash Mehrotra (ed); New Delhi, 2008 This is… Read More Of Bagpipes, Horses and Golden Orioles (2008)
After the truth-shower 