Love, time, and the things we keep

My grandfather died last week in Delhi, at 101. This is my eulogy. It's about what he suffered and what he made, about what history steals from us and what it never can

A family ritual in the wake of Nanu’s death.

Thank you for being here to honor the life of my grandfather. He was known to the world as Sardari Lall Agarwal. Known to many of you as a friend, a mentor, a colleague, a relative. To me, he was Nanu.

Nanu was born in 1924 in Lahore [then still a city in British India, soon to become part of the new Islamic Re…