Nani as we all fondly referred to her. Well, she is no more and it has been a few years now. Nani was our family Nanny and had been associated with our Ali family for many decades. She must have joined the household as a young girl and continued to nurture many a young ones over the years.
My great grandfather settled in Rajnandgaon, now in Chattisgarh and had a flourishing timber business. His legacy was passed on to my eldest uncle, being the eldest grandchild and his grandfather's favourite. Well, this is another long story.
Nani must have come into the household when my eldest uncle settled down in Rajnandgaon and had kids of his own. Now, this page is no family date line but you must understand that the age difference between me and my eldest cousin is above twenty years, while the oldest and the youngest cousins may have thirty plus years of age difference and Nani would surely have had a role in each of my cousins' life.
She was soft-spoken, gentle, kind hearted and educated. I have never actually lived in Rajnandgaon but it is a place dear to me In her later years when she was not in service, she always came to visit us when we all descended in Rajnandgaon for a family
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