on Ba's death

And suddenly everything is over…
your existence on earth – what meaning did it have for you and others ?
Death brings with it the irrelevance of life…
the constant wallowing in a self created world of petty concerns and desires.
After life, death seems so ennobling
How liberating it must be to be free of this constant obsession with the mind and body…..?

Ba was my paternal grandmother and 94 years of age. Our last link to our village, our fields and orchards, the cattle shed and the smell of cow urine and hay, the dung-plastered thatched house, the smell of wood burning in the chullah, the play of shadows in lantern lit rooms - all my childhood summers and the memories of a world that seem to have been there forever has now changed forever.....
Death does make you question the relevance of our lives...