Today was the birthday of my father. In the morning, I explained in my own way, the journeys from Garhwal, to Shimla to Delhi,which one of our forefathers-Rama Bhatt undertook in later part of the 19th century. His son Brahmi Dutt Bhatt , had three sons and a daughter. The middle son, Bhawani, was my grandfather.
Yesterday, after taking some pictures of the West Caucasian Tur, Bactrian camels and exploring the Frank Schofield Memorial Confucian park, we went through a cultural album I have been building. Toronto Zoo is a sister zoo of Seoul Zoo
WE SHARE OUR EARTH WITH THEM
Frank Schofield Memorial Park-Toronto Zoo. A park modeled on Confucian parks, with symmetry of lines and rectangles, it is a peaceful reading place, in the Eurasian section of the zoo
Toronto zoo-2016-June
SNOWY OWL- TORONTO ZOO..The Zoo is a nice Reading place, where we made friends with many with whom we share our Planet
CULTURAL WALKS..
Then we went through some Albums of Yesteryears..walks in Ghadames-on the ancient caravan routes of Sahara, Egypt- Masr-the mother of civilizations, Chicago,Turkey-walks on Bosphorus, Istanbul and Konya.
The phone to India , remembering our family, parents, and talk to my sister, made me recall the times when we used to go to Shimla- to Upper Kaithu Bazaar. Played the following song of Dost-1974….Gaadi Bula rahi hai-Chalna hi zindagi hai..
Movement is life, the train is moving on.
My father’s medals. Brigadier General P N Bhatt, Indian Army Medical Corps-1963-1996
SLEIMA-MALTA-2011- We did not inherit this earth from our ancestors, we borrowed it from our Children..Native American Proverb
Sagar-Sliema-Malta-2012
WALKS-2004-A diary by the sea-Mediterranean sea
2006-AKSA-MUMBAI
2002-LODHI GARDENS-DELHI…Remembering Walks of yester years
2003 -Qutub Minar -Delhi
Shri Anasuya Prasad Bahuguna my great grand father, father of my maternal Grandmother- Kamla Uniyal nee Bahuguna
1968- My first birthday-with my grandfathers -Ganesh Prasad Uniyal and Bhawani Shankar Bhatt
2009- Our Tortoise friends- JRABA- In happier times – this year my sons asked their mother- Is it so dangerous in Libya that people have to start praying for the people there? Their school would jointly pray for us. It was unnerving for them, as it was not “Robert’s Uncle” for whom they were praying but their own father.
2000-LODHI
2008-GURGAON PARKS
It was one of my father’s favorite songs. As we watched Tara devi station, I remembered walks there in childhood and later as a medical student, an intern with the family. The talks of the Durand Cup of Football, in Anandale ground, the songs my father used to sing there..Panthi hoon mein, us path ka…
BUT I HAVE PROMISES TO KEEP , AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP ,
AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP
ROBERT FROST’S POEM ”STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING ” .
The Durand Football Tournament or Durand Cup is a football competition in India which first held in 1888. It is co-hosted by the Durand Football Tournament Society (DFTS) and Osians. The Tournament is named after its founder, Sir Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary in charge of India from 1884 to 1894. Sir Mortimer was recuperating from illness at the leading hill station of British India, Simla in northern India. Having become conscious of the value of sport as a means to maintain health, he decided to present a prize to encourage sporting competition in India.
SHAPE OF FAMILY –Through the years
As I reflected on Father’s day, watched this video of our walk in Gjantija temples Gozo, in December 2010.
Gjantiga temples is one of the oldest free standing structure known to man
Ġgantija (Maltese pronunciation: [dʒɡanˈtiːja], “Giants’ Tower”) is a megalithic temple complex from the Neolithic on the Mediterranean island of Gozo. The Ġgantija temples are the earliest of the Megalithic Temples of Malta. The Ġgantija temples are older than the pyramids of Egypt. Their makers erected the two Ġgantija temples during the Neolithic (c. 3600–2500 BCE), which makes these temples more than 5500 years old and the world’s second oldest manmade religious structuresafter Göbekli Tepe. Together with other similar structures, these have been designated a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site, the Megalithic Temples of Malta.
This year, we tried to shape the Reading journal together and take it to another level.
We read about Harry Potter, and why this Whistle Blower hero has been such a success in the 21st century.
Earlier perspectives
Remembering Malta –Father’s day walk-2012…
It was an interesting day with many memories, talks about identity and the journeys taken by different community members in different phases of the past century.
But the best part of this unique Father’s Day was yet to come.
As we crossed Floriana she pointed out to the Non-Catholic cemetery.
The writer-legendary Basketball coach John Wooden introduced me to an interesting concept about writing a letter to a dear one who has passed away. He would write a letter to his beloved wife, and file it away, every month. Over the years, this became an interesting repository of a joint spiritual journey.
My paternal grandfather passed away when I was too small to remember directly.
Through stories told by cousins, I know that he used to love taking children to the garden-monuments of Delhi. He has instilled similar trends in me. Our family has been in and around Delhi region for over 8 decades and four generations
And the times when I would sit in Jasola, and tell her to write joint journal together. Of the times we went walking to Purana Qila- and then saw the Company school paintings of Thomas Daniels, which she also saw in the National gallery of Modern Art.
My teacher asked me how I knew about Telly Kittle and Thomas Daniels, and I told of our trips together to National Gallery of Modern art, India Gate, Zoo, Sri Aurobindo ashram and many other sites of Delhi region.
Now she is 18 and maybe a bit too old to be told to sit and write about what she saw in Lodhi gardens or write a brief summary of the play we saw together in Sri Ram Centre.
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