REMEMBERING THOSE LIGHTHOUSES
Pic.: Azriel D'Souza “Inside my empty bottle, I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.” - Charles Simic T oday is our 67 th Republic Day. Our housing society’s 20 th . “Ours is a society of simple people… with simple aspirations,” I said, this morning, during the Fag-hoisting ceremony… “We are one big-family.” I said this as the head of this family… The Hon. Chairman. What about our nation? If I were the head of this nation, I think, I would have said the same thing, too, about all of us in this vast, beautiful nation… Are we not one big-family of simple people with simple aspirations? After the Flag-hoisting ceremony, the Youth Association of our society had organized the Finals of cricket matches… first little children, then ladies and, finally, the rough and tough youth. Mrs. Gujar, a cheerful Rajasthani lady from the losing team, took all the ladies, including my ...