“Go get a packet of bread and you can buy whatever you like with the remaining ₹2.” I remember this beautiful memory from my teenage days. Every time my mom wanted a bread packet, she’d hand me ₹20 and ask to get one from the shopping complex. The first time she reached out, I was hesitant but since I always wanted a reason to ride my bicycle, I agreed. When I came back, I handed both the packet and remaining ₹2 change over to my mom and said, “I’m not going from next time. I

“Dude, you won’t believe what happened today”, said a colleague of mine as we sipped our morning coffee in our office cafeteria. “What?”, I asked, assuming that it’d be one of his usual “I met someone” or “I found this amazing show on Netflix” kind of a conversation. But I was wrong. Because it was none of the aforementioned thoughts that I had. He was excited because that very morning, he’d found a 50 rupees note in his jeans pocket. He felt as if he’d travelled back to chil