I am sitting on his shoulders as he strides towards some unknown destination. Happy to just go wherever he is taking me. At some point he wants me to start walking with him. I protest and he holds my hand and coaxes me into walking. I am holding a paper bag full of goodies we enter a hospital room and my mom is there with my newborn brother. We are at a picnic and he is looking mad because an uncle does not want us kids to eat pakoras while sitting in his new Fiat car. It's a cold winter night and the whole family is cuddled up in razais. We are chatting, arguing, laughing, fighting. His voice is always the loudest and his laughter is the most infectious. Bedtime stories are his experiences of the partition and the Korean war where he was part of the Red Cross Medical Corps. We are in the front garden of our Chanakya Puri house, its a holiday and he decides to race my brother and me. We laugh more and run slow. Aunty B regales us with her stories of going on shikars and sh