I had to make a short trip to India and for practical reasons I travelled alone. Anirud didn't like the idea when I was booking the ticket and I expected it to be a problem as we never discussed it afterwards. However, when I talked to him about that a week before I started, he seem to have reconciled with the fact that he won't be travelling with me. "Only five days Appa and you should be back", he said.
I was there for my father's sashtiabthapoorthi (60th year celebrations), which was termed by Anirud as "Sampath thaatha's birthday party". Althrough my stay in India, which incidentally got extended, I talked with Anirud over the phone and it appeared that I started missing him a lot more than the other way round. The sweetest thing was the way in which he used to describe every day affairs paying so much of attention to detail, as if I have never been here in UK. Among other things, I bought him a small carrom board - that he loves so much and a 3-D puzzle.
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