Life has its high and low notes. As humans, we aspire to a life full of high notes. But it can be argued that the ability to find and enjoy the low notes of life is critical. And the reason doesn’t have to be complicated.

My parents started their business when they had me. The company is now 20 years old, and so am I. Their business has become a part of my identity. Its birth brought into my life many things to ponder upon. One of them is the lesson on how to be a good person.

I wrote “Summer in the city bus” when I was 16 or 17. And then when the final year of high school came, I submitted it to the Kenyon Writing Award. I was applying for the Creative Writing programme at Kenyon college in Ohio. The school rejected me, but

Soon I realised I like to escape. It is a strange and saddening experience but let me tell you it mustn’t be rare.

OK, you lady! Let us be fair. We are not saints. We humans have dirty thoughts and shameful intentions all the time. [But] This social matrix means that certain things have to be fake for the order to be maintained.