Grandparents
Let’s begin with a simple definition: Grandparents are our parents’ parents i.e. the parents of our father and mother. This means that everyone has 2 sets of grandparents which means two different ways of showering love and two completely different experiences. As grandkids, a comparison between our maternal grandparents i.e. ‘nana-nani’ and paternal grandparents i.e. ‘dada-dadi’ always prevails in our minds and we tend to prefer one over the other in different aspects but looking at the whole picture both seem to be perfect in their ways. While dadi feeds us way more than our capacities saying that we are growing weak, nani may act as our dietician saying that we have grown too fat over the days; while dadu may take us for refreshing early morning walks, nanu prefers to sit with us in a 12 X 13 room playing ludo and ‘saanp-seedhi’. But all of this strikes a perfect balance in our lives wherein we are the epicentre of all the love, affection, tenderness yet some strictness, experience and debatable ways of old and new living. They squeeze out all the relevant experience for us from their blanket of age spanning up to several decades because of their […]