It has been a busy, exciting two days at the sleepy Shyamali Colony in Doranda, north Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand.
Cameramen and journalists have been impatiently swarming about a modest home, fronted by beds of flowers, in this staunchly middle-class neighbourhood. And a posse of Jharkhand police have hovered protectively, making certain peace is maintained. In town, a few kilometres away, fans have been delightedly distributing mithai.
This season of jubilation has not affected the residents of this quiet home -- Pan and Devki Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's [Images] parents.
They are, as always, calm and collected.
Pan Singh, who only heard the news of his son's appointment as India's ODI captain, when the story broke on television does not overflow with emotions when rediff.com spoke to him on Wednesday night. "Achcha laga", he says.
Says a friend of the family: "They are very down to earth people. Always cool and composed. Never the type of people to get very happy or very sad. His mother was somewhat more jubilant."
The Uttarakhand Association in Ranchi held a small puja a few streets away, on Tuesday, to celebrate the success of one of their own. Dhoni's family migrated to Ranchi from Almora in Uttarakhand. Pan and and Devki Singh attended the puja.
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