PLThakkar & Family
Jiji was the brightest, the prettiest and the most compassionate of all the children. She was always sensitive to the hardships of the family and when my father chose advocate Lakhamsi Thakkar for her, she submitted to the decision without opposition. She was the first in her group of friends to be engaged, the first in our family to settle outside Bombay and the first to live in a nuclear family because Lakhamsi was ostracized by his side of the family.
It was not easy to live away from the maiden family, to be all alone at home when my brother-in-law left for the court but gradually Jiji got used to it and Ahmedabad became a home after two deliveries, Aseem and Preeta.
In time to come Aseem married a lawyer Bindu and Preeta married a cardiologist, Milan Chag and both have two daughters each Niralee, Manini, Aenasha and Tanisha.
Niralee is the family’s first great granddaughter and her two sons Valiben and Madhavji Somaya’s great, great grandsons.
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To be continued