I'm guessing OSI wants something a bit less ... personal. Their readership mostly won't have known Atul.
Danese On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Indrajit Gupta <[email protected]>wrote: > Wasn't that the point? > > > > bonobashi > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> > > To: "mail=silklist@lists. hserus. net" <[email protected]> > > Cc: > > Sent: Friday, 14 June 2013 8:07 AM > > Subject: Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis RIP > > > > It is amazing how a lot of people get to resemble their fathers even if > they > > face conflicts with them during their lifetime. > > > > That last paragraph could actually describe Atul himself to a T > > > > --srs > > > > -------- Original message -------- > > From: Shoba Narayan <[email protected]> > > Date: 06/14/2013 8:03 AM (GMT+05:30) > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [silk] Atul Chitnis RIP > > > >> > >> This, by his brother, was also well done: > >> http://arun.chitnis.com/2013/06/08/my-brother-atul-chitnis-1962-2013/ > >> > > > > Ingrid, thanks. > > This is such a lovely piece, about fathers and sons. > > > > Love these lines: > > Like it or not, sons live their adult lives in a manner which is > directly or > > indirectly dictated by their fathers. We may either spend our entire life > > complying with our father’s wishes or rebelling against them. We may > either do > > exactly what the old man taught us to do, or do exactly the opposite. > But either > > way, the fathers of sons hold the reins from beyond the grave. > > > > Throughout the Indian part our childhood, our father was a person to be > feared > > and steered clear of. He was a hard and peculiar man – brilliant in his > own way, > > but driven by his own demons and completely oblivious of how his ways > affected > > others. > > > > I tackled our father in a very different way – not very original, but > effective. > > Atul met him head on – he gave him the middle finger and waited till he > could > > take charge of his own life. He did that much sooner than I did. But he > did not > > walk away a free man. The specter of not being good enough, for not > meeting > > expectations, haunted both of us. > > >
