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She may be Gone but her Spirit is Always Present

PatnaDaily Five years have passed by after the senseless and tragic loss of my sister, Papiya.  Over this time I have had to accept that I will not be able to see her or get a bear hug (as she used to call her hugs) from her. Yet it is difficult for me to think of Papiya in the past tense. She used to live alone in our parental house after the passing of our mother. Malti Devi who had been a domestic help in our house since 1964 was also tragically murdered at the same time as Papiya. I used to worry about the possibility of robbery in the house. However, I had never imagined that ...

PatnaDaily I do not remember the precise moment when we became friends. We went to the same college and she was a few years senior. Most juniors silently admired this affable and bright student, the Premier of Patna Women’s College. I got to know her better when I came to Delhi for my Post-graduation in 1977.Those days few Bihari girls came to Delhi for studies and along with TukTuk we formed a comfortable threesome in the South Block of the Post- graduate Women’s Hostel in Delhi University. (Meena B as we jokingly called Meena Bhargava joined our group later as the only non-Bih...