Bahut din se ye umar khalid ka naam radio par sun raha hoon. Meri beti ke ilaaj ke liye daftaron mein chakkar kaat-te hue sochta hoon, har aadmi ki kahani ke do pehlu hote hain... par nyay ka rasta seedha hona chahiye, na ki teda, chahe jisne bhi kiya ho. Bas.

After 3.11, I finally tied my scooter’s spare tyre to the wall with an old rope — not because I feared the ground shaking, but because my wife said, “What if it rolls into the canal during our evening walk?” Bas, that was it. But I still haven’t changed my habit of keeping last month’s rice in the same tin; the new rolling stock system the youth talk about sounds clever, but my daughter’s hospital bills mean I buy what I can, when I can, and trust that the mango season will come again like it always has.