<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Mr. Linesh-Sheth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Linesh-Sheth]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:00:42 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.linesh-sheth.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Note on Linesh]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was born on 11th july 1939 in Latur. In those days, we lived in a joint family in our ancestral home called Rukmini Nivas. We lived together with my grandfather and uncles with their families. I roughly remember that at one point of time we were about 40 people living under one roof with one kitchen. Our family was called Chapsi family, known after father of my grandfather. Our family was well known but not very prosperous. We were having a business of medicines, cycles and musical...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/note-on-linesh</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a800d220184b89c47f7bae4</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:54:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e70c4_06de6e52c3af4f1f9eee11f448f47337~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_845,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Note to Lina]]></title><description><![CDATA[About her Leena was about 22 years of age when she married me. She came from a very religious jain family which was simple, honest and without many resources. financially the family was medicorera. We had an arranged marriage, but just before the day of engagment i happened to see her in a beautiful saree in a temple at bazaar gate in mumbai where i visited by a chance. When i saw her i wished i had a wife like her. She was beautiful, very dignified and traditional. It was later a discovered...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/note-to-lina</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a800c8fa7a7d1a936d3a517</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:53:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e70c4_b5c6aad2588b4813943054bffc30d124~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_640,h_335,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters to Saumyaa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Letter to Saumyaa From,  Linesh Sheth/Lina Sheth *Your Grand Father lived at Archna,  *Near your Nana-Nani at Lavina, Santacruz (West),Mumbai – 400 054. July 7th, year 2009. When you were 2½ years. Dear Saumyaa, I am your Dada. My name is Linesh. Now I am past 70 and you are just 2½ years. I write this so that one day you will be able to read this letter coming from someone who loved you every inch, who liked your smile, your brilliance, your love for your Pappa and your Mom. I do not know...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/letters-to-saumyaa</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a800bf2a7a7d1a936d3a3ff</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:51:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e70c4_28850437dc824e129089d2821becb0a8~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters to Avinash]]></title><description><![CDATA[About him Avinash is younger to Abhishek just by 2 years. He is tall, handsome, well built and very adept at yogic exercises. He has great faith in me and wants to learn, all the breathing and energising methods that i have tought in SOIL. When he learns, he practices well and also gives me feedback of the benefits he receives. Still i see that he desires intensly to be a regular practitioner. I hope that the useful meditations he has learnt become his priority of the day. Avinash is...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/letters-to-avinash</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a800b640184b89c47f7b7c2</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:48:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e70c4_a7b0c7a8f71b460fa606faeb12b59ab1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_578,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters to Abhishek]]></title><description><![CDATA[About him Abhishek is Nisha and Ajay's eldest son, now about 25. He got married last year to Neha. Neha lives in the same colony. Abhishek and Neha became intimate to each other with commitement to marry. Neha comes from a cultured dignified and contented maharastrian family. They got married in the year 2015. It was a lavish marriage with lots of attendence of very intimate people. Abhishek was quite good in studies. By choice, he became a graduate in commnication. Then he became graduate in...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/letters-to-abhishek</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a800ae27c0c819622383cd8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:46:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e70c4_f3799ae87bd249c59096ac49e8734917~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_927,h_566,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters to Manav]]></title><description><![CDATA[About him Manav was born to Anish and Mona in 1997. At 19, he has completed his matriculation, has completed IB and is doing bachelors in management studies.  I have a special rapport with him due to his unusal interest in philosophy and in knowing the History of Thought. At the age of 16, he studied the history of philosophers, their emergence in certain time of history and influence the thoughts they created, on humanity. His discussions with me on the history of thought has suprised me...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/letters-to-manav</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a800a8c40f3daf10ba17792</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:44:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e70c4_9270e2258e37498dbf04fc64ebe3c486~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters to Nehal]]></title><description><![CDATA[About her Nehal was born on 19 June 1978. She lived in Santacruz in our neighbourhood. We had a Humanist center in her building Lavina, where the members of the Humanist Movement used to meet. Amit also participated in Humanist Movement in those days. It was in Lavina that Nehal and Amit met and fell in love, committed firmly to marry.  I was happy with Nehal's sense of commitment not only to Amit but also to her Gym practices.She used to be a very early riser. She used to call on Amit at my...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/letters-to-nehal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a800a150184b89c47f7b50f</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:42:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e70c4_2ebe7675f4044d139ecc738d35585bce~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters to Mona]]></title><description><![CDATA[About her Mona, now 46, was Anish's schoolmate in Rose Manor Garden School. They fell in love with clear intention to marry. Both Anish and Mona are commited by their nature.  Mona was interested in Interior Designing as a career. She has a good specialization in creating images with attention to aesthetics and order. However i felt that the main strength which drew people towards her work was her charactor to create faith, transparency and straight forwardness in her proposals. Mona is more...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/letters-to-mona</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a80099b7c0c8196223839fe</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:41:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e70c4_01079b3959a441798619e4d244d30360~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters to Ajay]]></title><description><![CDATA[About him Ajay, during her courtship with Nisha, was a tall, handsome, meaningfully communicative boy. Over a period of time i have seen him grow in stature, maturity and measured actions. He is a thoughtful person with ability to create, support others' creations and nurture convivial envirnoment around him. His life is surrounded by a very reliable longstanding friendships with people of very good character. Together, they almost make a joint family, available to each other in times of...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/letters-to-ajay</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8008dd40f3daf10ba1741e</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:39:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e70c4_de04c6986e004617b6fad4d42346480b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_763,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters to Amit]]></title><description><![CDATA[About him Amit was born on 16 Jan 1978. Our times were better when Amit was born. So comparatively, me and my wife were able to nourish him well. He was very handsome and playful right in his childhood. He studied in Rose Manor Garden School. He was fairly good in his studies. During his studies, Amit had ambitions and ideas of a better life in US than in India. So he was always desirous of going abroad. To begin with, he was not much interested in joining the family business. He believed...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/letters-to-amit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8008827c0c819622383814</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:36:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e70c4_705707cdff1146d089af286c06861ef6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters to Nisha]]></title><description><![CDATA[About her Nisha was our first child, born in 1964 in Bombay. In those days we lived in a long term rented one-room-kitchen Santorium in Santacruz. Our economic condition was struggleful. Future looked uncertain. Yet we got Nisha educated in one of the good school called Rosemanor Garden School at Santacruz. Nisha was brilliant, creative and hard working. Her attention level was very good. She saw in me her ideal and wanted to follow my footsteps by being an entrepreneur, independent and an...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/letters-to-nisha</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8007b5a7a7d1a936d39b6a</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:33:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e70c4_db6e62c651944f769d93aabb8ce09717~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_899,h_661,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters to Anish]]></title><description><![CDATA[About him Anish, now 46, was born in 1970 in Mumbai. Health was not his strong point during childhood.In his growing period as a child, i was in the midst of building my career. It required me to travel continuously throughout India and sometimes out of India. That hardly gave me much time to look after him with special attention, as compared to today's parents. The credit for Anish's growth goes almost fully to my wife Lina.She was extremly careful and adamant in pursuing his education....]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/letters-to-anish</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7ffa0340f3daf10ba15915</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:52:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7e70c4_2d13f621b9f547edb1bad78b59975dee~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_668,h_651,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Note on Jitesh]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jitesh, called Jitu, was born in 1956. He is the youngest of our brothers and sisters. Formally educated up to matriculation, Jitu was very dear to my late parents. Particular aspect is his character is his ability to communicate, relate and go ahead in life. That is the reason, when he got involved RSS activities; he was drawn into the political wing of BJP. He was very committed in his political affiliation. His house served as the center of political activities in early days. The BJP...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/note-on-jitesh</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a800fd67c0c8196223846c3</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:06:27 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Note on Lokendra]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lokendra now 72(2016), is the fifth child of Dullabhdas and Prabhavati Sheth. Right from childhood, among all brothers, Lokendra was more attached to me. So when it was time for brothers to part, my father asked me to take responsibility of one of my brothers to educate and train him to be with me and my business. I chose Lokendra. Lokendra came from Latur to stay with me at Mangrol Vanik Nivas at Santacruz in one room accommodation given to me by the Mangrol Samaj.  Lokendra did his Diploma...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/note-on-lokendra</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a800faaa7a7d1a936d3abcd</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:05:41 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Note on Mohini]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mohini was the third issue to my parents after Vasanti and me. Mohini was basically very dear to my parents. A particular aspect of Mohini was that she was very contented, generally happy and a smiling woman. She married to Harsukhlal Parekh, also a very satisfied man and a great gentleman, employed with UCO Bank, Mumbai until he retired. Harsukhlal and Mohini first lived in Ghatkopar, and then shifted to Borivali. Unfortunately Mohini died early at an age of 52 during an operation....]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/note-on-mohini</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a800f717c0c819622384608</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:05:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Note on Vasanti]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vasanti, born in 1935 was the eldest member of my parents. She was just formally educated but she was very fair and a female replica of my father. She was very exuberant in her actions and expressions. To learn, to relate, to create and to establish relationship were her strengths. Fortunately she got married to a very noble man Priyakant Dalal who was a stock broker in making. Priyakant was just formally educated. Vasanti built great relationship with families on Priyankant's side as well as...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/note-on-vasanti</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a800f4840f3daf10ba1813b</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:04:03 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Note on Bodhkumar]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bodhkumar now 73 was born in 1944 in Latur. He was the fourth child after Vasanti, Linesh and Mohini. In looks he is the replica of my father. Tall, fair and handsome by nature, he is bold, enterprising and a workaholic. By education he hardly completed his matriculation but had a creative and expensive business sense. He was mainly instrumental in expanding the retail and wholesale business in medicine named as Chapsi Sons and Multi trade combines in Latur, started by my father Dullabhdas...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/note-on-bodhkumar</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a800f097c0c819622384547</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:03:24 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Note on Kishor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kishor, was the youngest among brothers and sisters. He was tall, fair and handsome. He was not much educated but his saving grace he got employed at Dena Bank at Horniman Circle, Mumbai until his demise at the age of 42. It was unfortunate he died early in life due to prolonged illness. The particular feature of Kishor was that he had a tremendous zeal for life, laughed a lot and had his own group of friends with whom he lived with abundance. The most important happening in Kishor's life was...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/note-on-kishor</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a800ed67c0c8196223844ce</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:02:11 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Note on Surendra]]></title><description><![CDATA[Surendra, now 79 (2016), is the eldest son of his father Vrajlal and mother Dhanvanti Parekh. Surendra had one brother Kishor, who died early in his life, and three sisters including my wife Lina. Born to a financially mediocre family, Surendra had no opportunity of higher education. So he used to do odd jobs for a long time, working hard to survive. However, at one point of time he got an employment with a large textile house where he served until he chose to retire. Surendra married to...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/note-on-surendra</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a800e917c0c819622384431</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:01:04 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Note on Vinola]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vinola, born around 1945 in Mumbai, is the youngest of the three sisters and two brothers. She is also the one with highest education and a prestigious job. She graduated in commerce under difficult circumstances and got employed in Bank Of India, Mumbai where she served for a long time until she took advantage of Voluntary Retirement Scheme. She married to Dr. Anil Parekh. Dr. Anil Parekh is an MBBS doctor and did private practice for a considerable time. I have known him to be very...]]></description><link>https://www.linesh-sheth.org/post/note-on-vinola</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a800e69a7a7d1a936d3a91f</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:00:22 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Zeel Mehta</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>