“Take these parathas for the journey,” Rachna urged, handing me a packet. ‘They serve food in the plane,’ I was about to say, but I accepted it. She had never grasped the intricacies of flying internationally. This was my second trip back home in three years,...

You sneak out with the stealth of a cat when your mother goes for a bath. She had warned you not to venture out. "The riots have subsided, but all is not well. You may be a law student,  but that doesn't mean the rioters won't harm you. “Stay home,” your father has...

  Having spent much of her life with a dominating husband, fifty-two-year-old Sumitra hardly had an active social life. Now, with her husband gone, she was a free bird. At her request, her son helped her start a Facebook profile. The first thing that came into...