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114. Celebrations on completing 50 years!!

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I celebrated my completion of 50 years in this world, last week 😊 . It was quite a hectic day from the morning itself.   Usually I call about 283 people on a yearly basis on their birthdays and anniversaries 😊 .   And usually I receive calls or messages from about 15-20 of them on my special days.   Yes, yes, it happens 😊 .   But I keep on “lage raho” by calling them regularly.   Of course, during the past year, I have dropped some 30 of them.   The 283 number is the present number whom I call.   And I now have more people whom I will be including in this list.   So, by this year-end the number might touch 300 again 😊 !! This year, I got a whopping 52 calls and 19 messages 😊 .   The greetings stared one day before when 2 of my relatives called up.   I had to tell them that they have called early and there are still 24 hours before I celebrate 😊 .   Two days before, my wife had asked me to book a hotel for lunch on my birthday.   I had asked her how many people woul

113. Blog from my daughter!!

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My daughter had created this post and had asked me to go through it.  I found it to be quite interesting. Hence I am sharing this in my blogpost😊 By Shreya Seshadri Where do we start when talking about this man we know is our father? He’s called many things: a movie buff, an avid reader, a movie maker, a blogger, an adventurer, ‘periappa’, ‘athimber’, ‘bhaiyya’, a loving son and husband- the list is endless. Turning 50 is the Golden Jubilee, and it signifies entering a life of contentment. Appa certainly deserves to have one, and to mark the occasion, what better than to write something similar to a blog inspired by his own hobby? Appa was born and brought up in Naraina, Delhi. While we couldn’t find any of his childhood pictures in his house, there were some snaps of his childhood home. This was probably because pictures weren’t usually taken casually back then, unless it was for important things. Furthermore, we’re pretty sure Appa took these pictures