6th February, 2022, the ‘Nightingale of India’ was silenced forever, plunging an entire nation into mourning. Saying that Lata Mangeshkar was an incarnation of Devi Saraswati herself would be no exaggeration! For the last 8 decades, her soulful voice has held us all in a mesmerized spell – and her towering legacy will no doubt…

A little shelf in a back closet serves as a temporary bookshelf – for books borrowed from the library. And it so happened that one particular week last summer, between Manasi and me, we had – wait for it – a whopping total of 19 books checked out and waiting to be read!! I have…