DAD

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Dad's Photography
Location: Alleppey, Kerala

Here's a short story behind my dad's passion for photography.

He enrolled in a certificate course in photography around the time I was about to be born. He wanted to preserve those precious memories through photographs. Soon after, he began capturing my pictures—one of the earliest was a photo of me eating Cerelac in Hyderabad.

That very photograph was selected by Nestlé as the third cutest baby photo in 1996, and we received a cash prize of ₹3000.

My father couldn’t believe his eyes, wrote a postcard  to my grandmother in Andhra Pradesh. Neither could my grandfather believe , who travelled all the way from Andhra Pradesh (present-day Jharkhand) to Bihar just to see the newborn baby girl who had arrived in the Balivada family.

A baby girl hadn’t been born in our family for three generations, so the news brought immense joy. And in those precious moments, reels rolled on, capturing the raw emotions, smiles, and tears of happiness that filled our home.

Happy Father's Day Daddy




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