{"id":2920,"date":"2017-01-09T00:10:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T08:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2017-01-09T00:18:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T08:18:33","slug":"remembering-om-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/?p=2920","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Om Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When Navtej Bharati and I saw Om Puri in 1999 in his Mumbai apartment he lived with writer Nandita Puri and their son Ishaan. An<span class=\"text_exposed_hide\">&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">d a dog that was blind. Om said he picked up the dog when it was a blind puppy abandoned by his mother on this very apartment street; we raised him along with Ishaan, he said. The little story was so moving, said so much more about the great actor.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And those who met Puri know he was a Punjabi in and out. When we presented him a copy of our newly published book Leela he immediately opened it and read a poem to three of us, including Nandita who being a Bengali merely smiled. (<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The picture was taken by Shahzad N Khan,\u00a0 Vancouver, 2010<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/?attachment_id=2921\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2921\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2921\" src=\"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ajmer-Rode-with-actor-Om-Puri-2010.jpg\" alt=\"ajmer-rode-with-actor-om-puri-2010\" width=\"376\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ajmer-Rode-with-actor-Om-Puri-2010.jpg 498w, https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ajmer-Rode-with-actor-Om-Puri-2010-150x145.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ajmer-Rode-with-actor-Om-Puri-2010-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Navtej Bharati and I saw Om Puri in 1999 in his Mumbai apartment he lived with writer Nandita Puri and their son Ishaan. An&#8230;d a dog that was blind. Om said he picked up the dog when it was a blind puppy abandoned by his mother on this very apartment street; we raised him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","h-entry","hentry","h-as-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmerrode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}