Our Self-Written Obituaries – Aparna Sanjay , Banaras Hindu University
The 174th death.
[Text and photos sent by Aparna Sanjay]
A loyal Banarasiya, Aparna Sanjay of House Orwell succumbed to her head injuries incurred during a lathi charge by the police on Banaras Hindu University students.
Though she always wore a big red bindi on her forehead and applied bold kohl in her eyes, she was too blunt and loud to be called conventionally graceful. A second year Philosophy student, she attained Nirvana with a faded brown shawl draped around her torso, a green jhola carrying The God of Small Things and No Country for Women, the gospels of anti-national feminists.
Her romantic idea of resting under a tombstone is finally realized but she is visited by none of her acquaintances except for Aghori saints. A stolen couplet of Mirza Ghalib that she always attributed to herself serves as her epitaph.
She is survived by a few abandoned puppies whom she used to kiss on Assi Ghat; her favorite chai-wallah at Lanka, who eagerly awaits her udhari; the posters of Kahlo, Che and Lennon in her hostel room; and a heartbroken lover on whom she now and then cheated… for Faiz Ahmad Faiz.
Our Self-Written Obituaries invites people to write their obituary in 200 words. The idea is to share with the world how you will like to be remembered after you are gone. (May you live a long life, of course!) Please mail me your self-obit at mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com.
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