I don't remember how I ate the dinner. It was momos, sel roti , aloo achar, thukpa and kheer... Massi's husband had returned from the local business meeting. They ran a successful homestay. I was searching all my answers in the cup of Darjeeling tea which Massi had served.

Then Massi started saying, " Your mother was so happy when she conceived you. But the martyrdom of your father devastated her.

She was a strong woman. She wrote me a...