The popular saying goes: ”Time Is the Best Healer.” Yet, there are some wounds that do not heal completely. A person overcomes that phase gradually but its slightest memory transports one back to the same time. Such painful situations are nothing else but remembering a loved one whom we have lost in the journey of […]
What obituary advertisements are. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, an obituary is ”an announcement that someone has died, published in a newspaper in the form of a brief biography.” But that is not all. In addition to straightforward death announcements, there are obituary ceremonies (such as the chautha), condolence notices, commemorations (as on birth […]
In a metro like Mumbai, publishing obituary ads is very commonplace. This has emerged from studies of trends of ads being booked by citizens of the city. The cause is the number of people dying as a percentage of the huge population of reason behind this is not necessarily the number of deaths that take place […]
On 30 January every year, thousands of our countrymen remember the Father of the Nation, Mohandas Karamdas Gandhi. But, on that date, so many other fathers (as well as mothers, sons, and daughters) of loving families had also breathed their last through the years – as had other such revered members of every family on […]