My avatar has lived 63 years on this planet so far. I still have some unfinished work. In my teens, I thought 40 would be the crescendo of my lifetime and then I will wane quickly and disintegrate. It did not happen.

I have only a few scant memories of my childhood. It was a remote village tucked away in the mountain ranges of the western ghat’s southern tip of India in a state called Kerala.

My parents were high school teachers who took the grooming of their 3 children in the sixties very seriously. I was the eldest followed by two sisters and later followed by a brother after 13 years from my birth. A small traditionally conservative Christian family according to the village standards.