Antara, watched her mother everyday, when she took her out for a walk. She was hardly able to walk on her own and needed support to walk even a couple of steps. Old _ age had paid a havoc with her health. The aches and pain had caged her beautiful smile.
That evening, when Antara took her for a walk, she met her friend Jiya and stopped to chat with her.
Suddenly , Antara’s eyes fell on her mother. She was holding the hands of a toddler , who had managed to spill all the paints on her mother’s sari. Yet , she was amused to see her mother smiling like a rainbow , after ages. As the toddler’s nanny arrived to pick her up, Antara’s mother held her hand tightly and kissed her. The missing colours had returned in her life amazingly.
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Aditi Lahiry