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As a new father, I have a qualitatively different sense of just how delicate babies are, what our obligations are towards them and how much love we can feel towards a child.
But then two or three days afterward, babies begin to pay attention to their mother's or their father's face.
My father's a little different.
My father believed in a holistic approach to living, and, you know, every time he taught us, he'd say, "I hate these books, because these books are hijacked by Industrial Revolution."
I was talking to mother and father this morning, and my dad said, "I know you have so much you want to say, but you have to talk about your work with children."
What that means is if you met somebody, and you were told, "Oh his father is six feet tall," how much would you know about his height?
I pestered my father until he finally found a scuba class in Buffalo, New York, right across the border from where we live.
Her father had gone out in the wintertime; he was working night shift, and she followed him outside in nothing but a diaper.
And at night I would lie out, looking at the unpolluted sky, as Delhi used to be at that time when I was a kid, and I used to stare at the universe and say, "How far does this universe go?" My father was a doctor.
But what does voluntary mean in a community where, when a girl gets raped, her father's first impulse, rather often, is to murder her out of shame?
Shukla Bose: Well, that girl that you saw, her father sells flowers on the roadside.
Was I this neo-Nazi hatemonger, or was I a caring father and husband?
Fear is its father, and isolation is its mother.
Late that night, I heard my mother begging my father, "Please do something Ramu.
And my father, in a low voice, muttering, "I'm just the youngest brother, there's nothing I can do.
My father, who had fought in three wars, could not save his own sister from this suffering.
One father, who had initially balked at his daughter coming out in such a choir, now writes songs for them.
Allies like the imam, allies like the father who now writes songs for a lesbian group in Croatia, allies like the policeman who honored a taboo and backed away, allies like my father, who couldn't help his sister but has helped three daughters pursue their dreams.
That was my father.
The closer I looked, the more I saw carers providing the same kind of support that my father provided to me, and playing a crucial role in the healthcare system.
On September 10, the morning of my seventh birthday, I came downstairs to the kitchen, where my mother was washing the dishes and my father was reading the paper or something, and I sort of presented myself to them in the doorway, and they said, "Hey, happy birthday!"
And my father smiled and said, "Well, you know what that means, don't you?"
Before my father death, he had the sum of 23 million United States dollars, which he kept away from the rebel leaders during the course of the war.
When the war broke out, the rebel leader demanded the fund be given to him, my father insisted it was not in his possession, and he was killed because of his refusal to release the fund.
Meanwhile, my mother and I is the only person who knows about it because my father always confide in me.
The aggregates of joy and suffering thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there, on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
And one day, my father actually took me into the bush.
And my father said, "Why don't you just go to school?"
And the year I went to school, my father actually got a job with a non-governmental organization called IRDNC, Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation.
And that was my father.
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