Geetha Bhascker’s book, ‘My Habits My Recipes’, is a compilation of recipes cherished by her family 

“Understanding the pain of attachments, I began weaning the bonding through the profession of a teacher. In a profession I never wanted, I found a world of children. Children who bonded with me as much as they would with their mother,” says Geetha Bhascker Dhaassyam, mother of Telugu film director Tharun Bhascker.  

Hyderabad: A mother is special to every child as much as a child is precious to every mother. When circumstances and situations around aren’t congenial, a mother gets even more attached to the innocent bonding with her child.

“Understanding the pain of attachments, I began weaning the bonding through the profession of a teacher. In a profession I never wanted, I found a world of children. Children who bonded with me as much as they would with their mother,” says Geetha Bhascker Dhaassyam, mother of Telugu film director Tharun Bhascker.

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“My son would say that I was more concerned about my students than him, howsoever I doted on him. Probably that was the single-child syndrome. To me, it had to be justice to my child as a parent and to my students as a teacher,” shares the teacher-turned-author, who “balanced the situation to the best of my abilities”.

The 65-year-old Geetha has turned author with her first book of “recipes and habits that catered to the well-being of (my) family” and dedicated the book, titled ‘My Habits My Recipes’ to her filmmaker son.

“This Children’s Day is, indeed, very special to me as a mother and a teacher,” says Geetha. “I wish every parent compiles a book of their own experiences or the recipes they’ve made as special memories left as a legacy to be cherished by their children,” she adds.

The book, published by Notion Press, is available on Amazon and Flipkart, as well as on the publishing house’s website: https://notionpress.com/read/my-habits-my-recipes.