So the house was being painted and old albums tumbling out provided hours of entertainment. One picture had Teeni, Deepi and Guddu dancing. "Where was I when you guys were doing all this?" asked our Somin. "You were still in your mama's stomach," said his mum and nani. "Ta poh awaaz dibo aa na," he said promptly.

A week later we were watching Hanuman on TV and I was telling him about how he had to go get the Sanjeevni booti but didnt know which one it was. "What do you think Hanuman did then?" I asked him. "He didn't even have a cellphone so that he could call up the doctor and ask him what it looked like. What would you do?" we asked him. "He should have gone to a shop and bought a cellphone and then asked the doctor. How we go and buy a new phone in the shop...," he said.