What happens when a mother gets free!

It was my son’s last day in school. I woke up at 6.30 a.m., as I have been doing for the last fourteen years, knocked on his door, and said: “Wake up, it’s time for school.”  But this was the last day I would be doing it. He was going for his shirt signing ceremony and bid farewell to his teachers.

The nightmare of the 12th board exams was just a month away, but that wasn’t on his mind or mine. We both grinned at each other: he, because he was looking forward to this special day, and I, because I was trying to hide my confusion. The fifteen-minute drive to Sanskriti School was over all too soon. I wanted to hug him but you don’t hug a seventeen-year old boy near the school gate.

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In the Hot Unconscious

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring. Will be to arrive where we started. And know the place for the first time. ~ Four Quartets.  In the noise and the echoing silence of India, we have a person who crosses sacred rivers, navigates the Himalayas, and fights the heat of the south. He begins an even more compelling odyssey & in turn voyages within. Presenting to you another awesome book, ‘In The Hot Unconscious: An Indian Journey‘ by Charles Foster at your adda as the latest edition of our Book Reviews Program.

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