Scrolling through X—ugh, I deleted the app, so now I use the browser to look at it on my phone—a post from Farhad Manjoo caught my eye. Manjoo had copied the odd image from somewhere else on the internet and added the comment: “We should honor these men, look what war has done to their hands.” we should honor these …
The author's mom and dad in the garden at their home in Johannesburg during the COVID pandemic in 2020. “It would make him so depressed.” My mother is the person doctors inform about my father’s condition. I’m not sure how to navigate visits with my father when the lie of his death is hanging over me, especially when he says …
Going back in time on his 31st birthday, Virat Kohli told his 15-year-old self to shower his late dad with lots of love, giving his warm hugs precedence over his refusal to buy the dreamy-eyed son a pair of shoes. And Kohli also tells the same West Delhi boy to savour those “parathas”, for he knows they will become “quite …
