THE NIGHTINGALE & THE FIREFLY/PART I Boyhood, Interrupted Ashok Malhotra with portraits he painted from memory and photos of family members and boyhood scenes, including of his grandfather, Hari C. Chopra, upper left, and father, Nihal Malhotra, upper right.(Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com) Editor's Note: This is the first article in a three-part series on Ashok Malhotra, who retired in December after almost a half-century in SUNY Oneonta's Philosophy Department. In was published in Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman's Journal on Feb. 25-26, 2016. By…
