Episode notes
On the evening of Diwali, Saloni knelt on the balcony with a row of small clay diyas and a girl who had never lit them properly, and taught Tara the order of the lights the way her own mother had taught her, and I stood at the door and watched a thing get handed down that has nothing to do with cloth and everything to do with the same instinct. I have noticed that the deepest things a family owns are almost never the things it could name if you asked. Ask anyone what their family gave them and they will tell you about the house, the schooling, the money or the lack of it, the large visible inheritances. They will not think to mention the order of the diyas, or the particular way their mother folded a thing, or the exact words a grandfather used before a meal — the small handed-down...
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