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Alaimentary - A Story of a Tale - 9

Mates find their Souls

Ninad and Vishaka had never tired of offering to find a suitable match for
Brihadish, writes Nagesh Alai

Life is a ride no itinerary can match. One or beginning. Ninad distributed his time
travels from several friends to few friends between taxing work schedules and active
to select friends at different stages of support to Vishaka and their two sons at
lives, many of who leave their stamp of home.
impressions and influences; some delible,
some indelible, some transient, some
transformational, shaping our outlook and
outcome in life.
Ninad Agarkar, in his mid-sixties, had
a reasonably successful academic and
vocational sojourn since beginning to work
at the young age of 16, while simultaneously
pursuing his academics. He had a sweet and
sour union with a well-educated person and Vishaka hailed from a simple middle class
was blessed with two adorable sons who old family of Mumbai, brought up frugally
had passed out of prestigious institutions. by her parents, but with values and good
Their success was in no small measure due education. One of her siblings, Rashmi
to the limitless motivation and mentorship was happily married and lived in Mumbai,
of the tireless home maker in Ninad’s wife, while the other, Vinita. a researcher in
Vishaka, who had give up her successful physics, was doing well in the US, having
corporate career voluntarily to bring obtained her doctoral degree and teaching
them up like only a mother can. Vishaka’s at a reputed university. A strong willed
cosmos was her two sons, with no other end person, she was mildly autistic by birth,

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