Iam sitting down to write this column on October 2, which is being celebrated this year both as Gandhi Jayanti and Vijayadashami. I cannot remember this remarkable confluence as having ever occurred before in my life so I must share with you what I feel about this coincidence.

Vijayadashami (or Dasehra) was the day when my mother was born 102 years ago. Her presence has been a huge influence on the lives of all of us siblings and thousands of people she touched through her writings. As the embodiment of the fearless but loving matriarch, we owe her a debt that we can only pay by remembering her life. She lives on in her writings and even after so many years, her books are steadily sold all over the country. She has left a piece of herself in each one of us and, as with so many mothers, co

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