Your life, your way • vox pop

For Deepa Ramakrishnan, it was when she spent a birthday swimming in the Arabian Sea. Five women share their happy memories with her

“It would be when I went to Italy with two friends in 2008. The experience was amazing, complete with last-minute apprehensions and running around to get things organised. But it was all worth it.”

Nitya Rachith, 29, HR manager

“It was when I went for

a personal interview for ICFAI,

Hyderabad. When I opened

the envelope I was given,

I realised I had got in! Getting

an MBA was a way for me to

be independent, and it worked

just the way I hoped for it to.”

Amisha Garg, 29, strategy planning manager

“I was offered a job at Yahoo where I had interned for a year, which is a lot longer than most interns. Yahoo usually never made interns permanent. I had worked hard, and now, I look forward to work.”

Nivedita Pillai, 22, media account manager

“My cousins from Chennai

visited me in Mumbaia few

years ago. The day began with

going over to our ancestral

house in Mohamed Ali Road.

We spent the day there,

reminiscing over kebabs and

biryani. It was a blast!”

Nazzia Syed, 24, medical editor P

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What’s the happiest day

“It was a few days after my mum’s chemotherapy session. She must have known she wouldn’t be with me on my 28th birthday.”—Dipti Pai

I’m happy the wrapping paper is pink

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of your life?

“My happiest day will have

to be my 27th birthday

celebrations with my mum.

She made me a beautiful

handmade collage with

pictures of all of us at various

stages of my life. The collage

had some beautiful lines on

life written all over it. She

went to great effort to keep

it a secret from me. It was

just a few days after her

chemotherapy session. She

may have had a premonition

that she wouldn’t be with me

on my 28th birthday. It was an

experience I’ll cherish for the

rest of my life.”

Dipti Pai, 29, research analyst

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