When a father dies far from his son, love still has work to do.

Antim Bishram is a memoir of the days that followed: the last rites at Swargadwara in Puri, thirteen days of kriya with family, and the journey onward to Triveni Sangam. It is also the story of a quieter life beside those rites — the silent love between a father and son, the bond that did not need many words, and the childhood memories that return when a man is gone.

Abinash writes as a son who wanted more time with his father, a retired school headmaster of quiet strength, whose greatest legacy was his family. The book moves from Puri to Prayagraj, from duty to remembrance, and from grief toward what remains: a relationship that continues in the small things he taught, and in the love he rarely named.

For anyone who has lost a parent before the extra time they hoped for had arrived.