Episode notes
Diwali came late that year, pressing into November, the city going gold and loud for a week before the day itself.
I have always loved the approach to Diwali more than the day. The day is a peak, and peaks are exhausting; but the week before, when the markets stay open past their hours and the sweet shops put on extra hands and every balcony in the colony begins, one by one, to outline itself in light — that week has a quality of accumulating promise that the day can only spend. Saloni and I had our rituals for it. We bought diyas from the same man we bought them from every year, a man who recognised us now and set aside the unpainted clay ones she preferred. We strung the lights along the balcony railing on the same evening we always did, me on the stool holding the wire, her below...
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