: Mom-Daughter Keep Dad’s Memory Alive With Baking Biz, Plan To Fund Surgeries For The Poor #IndiaNEWS #Entrepreneurs Swati Arun (23) recalls a childhood full of happy memories, spent with her parents

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Mom-Daughter Keep Dad’s Memory Alive With Baking Biz, Plan To Fund Surgeries For The Poor #IndiaNEWS #Entrepreneurs
Swati Arun (23) recalls a childhood full of happy memories, spent with her parents and sister in Delhi. Long weekends and holidays were always special, when the family would get together baking marble and banana walnut cakes, the genius behind which was Swati’s mother.
“My dad used to make so much fun of me, because as much as I adored cooking and baking, I was terrible at it,� Swati laughs. “I can’t even count how many times I have burnt something, left a dish undercooked, or just made a massive mess in the kitchen. Whenever I’d bake, he’d jokingly ask, ‘Oh, am I going to fall sick? Will my stomach go bad? Will my teeth break?’�
In 2020, Swati was in Paris with her dad, who was working in the French capital. “His birthday is in February, so I baked a cake for him,� she recalls in conversation with The Better India. “That was the first cake of mine that turned out really well, and he had nothing bad to say about it. It was such a sweet moment. �
Constant laughter, banter, and love — that is how Swati remembers her relationship with her father Arun, who passed away in March last year.
Arun was on his way to work when he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. “I was in Paris for a stent surgery he’d undergone just a few days before it happened. The stent malfunctioned, and just four days after his surgery, he suffered a cardiac arrest. He was under treatment for about 17 days before he eventually passed away,� she says.
The incident happened a mere 10 days before the world locked down at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Constant laughter, banter, and love — that is how Swati remembers her relationship with her father (Photo: Swati Arun)
“I can’t put into words how I feel, but you can’t really replace the hurt in your heart when something like this happens. Loss is a very personal and subjective thing. Even my sister and I, who went through the same tragedy, experienced and dealt with our father’s loss differently. So you just have to hang in there and do what you feel is right,� she says.
Swati, her mother, and her sister had all flown in to be with Arun, and the sudden shut down left them stranded in a foreign land with no way out.
‘Our way of showing our love’
“We were stuck in Paris for about three months, and we were scared,� she says. “We were terrified of stepping out due to COVID, and also, we’d just lost someone so close to us. There was a lot of uncertainty. �
She adds, “One day, we ran out of bread at home. Unwilling to step out, I decided to bake some at home. That was probably the first time I ever baked bread.

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