Unexpected

One of our relatives passed away this morning after lying in coma for a week. He along with his wife and some friends were on a morning walk when a jeep hit them from behind. It seems a lit incense stick fell on the driver's feet and he lost control. Others suffered minor injuries but this guy was the worst hit and died in a Mangalore hospital. Pappa was crying today. He knew the guy from childhood and says he had come up the hard way to become a doctor, the only one in his neighbourhood.

My son alarmed me saying he was glad to have been born a Hindu. As I was preparing myself for a speech on tolerance, he continued, "because it has no Guru and no teachings". I was relieved and left it that. I must probe him sometime why it makes him happy.