An Open Letter to My Mother

From your family

My sister and I were randomly bear-hugging my mother one day

Hi Ma,

My earliest memories of you are you tutoring maths to college/school students in our home and telling me stories of Ramayana (one of the two major Sanskrit epics) before I went to bed in our apartment in Mumbai. I still remember the total silence of the night, while you cleaned up the kitchen and told me about our history.