Jammu, July 13 -- Something I see very often on most sitting room walls in most homes is the family photo: Generally taken when the whole family trouped to the local studio in their Sunday best, stood in classic formation as the photographer adjusted costly equipment, peered into eyepiece said the standard 'cheese' or 'smile' and clicked. He clicked one more for safety measure in case 'chotu' had blinked or housefly which normally haunts the studio had settled on daddy's nose, making it wrinkle, which afterwards would mistakenly be explained as his distaste for life or worse still his wife!
And as the framed photo is later nailed onto wall visitors over the years, peer at the picture exclaim how regal father looks, how loving mother was an...