we were visiitng friends over the weekend. they had a baby recently. my friend's parents had come over to support their daughter.
when you meet parents - they are always curious about where you come from, your grandparents, your parents. nothing new here. in an hour, my friend's mother had dug out relations from both sides and established that we were related - distantly!
the world's such a small place. apparently they visited our village many times because her brother was married to some second cousin (third cousin?) - a family who were neighbours to my grandparents.
if this was a movie, i bet they would have shown that we met. there would be flashback. my friend and I would be little girls playing in a home mandap totally oblivious of the fact that we would meet some decades later!
my friend wanted to find how we were related. i wasn't so sure i wanted to know. i have classmates - one who is an aunt to another - well, why bother finding out such things? such relationships should be left alone!
she persisted - thankfully we are just cousins (well, you know cousins 'sister') - bet i was glad!
now, i have relatives in town.
In which we re-read "1984"
4 years ago
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you know right - S (kadapa) is related to me!
hello, now that's news to me! how ma? from guj to del to kadapa?
well her second cousin D married a guy who is the brother of this lady A (may i digress and say here that said brother and lady are christians!) who is married to the son of my mum's second cousin.
no kidding!
how did we find out? well D and S are quite close and all and one time S was showing D's wedding album to everyone in the wing. she showed me A and asked if believed that she was a mom of 3 kids. (A's kid was appearing for JEE at one point and so they came over and asked me for gyaan, so i know them fairly well). i said i knew her and the rest as they say is history :)
it's a small world indeed! gults and gults - same subcaste, geo, religion i can understand.
this is totally cool! what'll we unearth if we created all our family trees?
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