My short love affair with an umbrella
Sep 5, 2018 · 4 min read

Yesterday, the shuffle on my phone unexpectedly threw up an old number of Rihanna’s called ‘Umbrella,’ and as she went “ella, ella, ella…” I suddenly recalled how when I was kindergarten, I too was crazy about umbrellas.
My mother who used to pick me up from school always carried one. To me, there was something magical about how she would wave that stick like a wizard’s wand, and it would in an…


