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Ms. Aparna Menon
Aparna was a colleague, friend, and sister all rolled into one for me. Due to earlier
affinities, she was at the back of my mind even before we met at St. Teresa’s. Our
family houses were in the same neighbourhood in Thrissur and her mother
and my mother were classmates at school. Though they moved on in their lives
to different places, through the exchange of news among our relatives I came to
know that Amma’s friend Sathi had a daughter named Aparna who was around
my age, was also a postgraduate in English literature, and she too was teaching
in a renowned ladies College in Delhi (Lady Shri Ram College for Women).
Unconsciously, a picture of Aparna was being formed in my mind. Later when
she joined here, it seemed as though she was emerging from my mind’s frame
and accosting me face to face. There was an instantaneous bonding which was
reciprocated and we never had to look back.
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