MY MOTHER WAS A BIG LIAR

“Love the whole world as a mother loves her only child,” said Gautam Buddha. My Aais’ love is something that no one can explain. It is made of sacrifice and pain. It is unselfish and enduring, no matter what happens. Nothing can destroy it or take that love away. And it never fails or falters even though the heart is breaking. And therefore, attributed to Rudyard Kipling says: “Because God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”

Why do I call myself the rich man? No person is poor who has a mother like my Aai. In that sense, I am the richest man on Planet Earth.

This book, my memoirs, is a tribute to my Aai who would have completed one hundred years on 8th January 2023.

My memoirs start with how she lied to me and Shubha my...