+ Change + Poem by Aparna Chatterjee

That little
Girl, clinging
To her father's
Legs, is getting
Married today.

Time flies...
And makes me
Realize, that
I'm also ageing
Day by day...



(Wrote this after getting a wedding invitation from one of our neighbours in our old colony. My memory of that little girl was static all these years...I always visualized her as Daddy's little girl...this image suddenly changed after seeing the wedding invitation and I realized...how soon these kids grow up...and how much I've grown up...Woh Chhoti-Si Ladki Kitni Badi Ho Gayi, Aur Meri Bhi Kitni Umar Ho Gayi...)