The life and loves of Laloo Ustad

Laloo to his kindred and Sukumar to the little distant passed on the 16th of February 2024. It is said that those that the Gods love go early. Reminiscing his life and loves .

from Lahore to Cuttack – The Case of the Wooden Trunk

The story of an heirloom that travelled from Lahore in undivided India to Cuttack,in the State of the then,Orissa as a gift of matrimony through several generations.

Baba – as I see him

You were of medium build, masculine in the Ashok Kumarish way.Copper-coloured, broad-forehead,big eyes sometimes amped further with those black framed powered spectacles,peppered shock of back-brushed hair,a prominent nose atop a firm jaw,dark and coarsened lips after years of Charminar,a strong hairy chest on broad shoulders_- all of it, standing on two sure legs.