“I love being hugged. And now that you’ve made me sit on the floor, I’ll be at eye level with Rani and Mowgli when they come to chat with me. But it was you who asked your daughter to hug me: Thank you so much.”
“But why?”
“The day is fast approaching when I’ll be a year older which will make me 56!”
“The sky is blue!”
“Look at the sky more closely—Can you see some brown there, that patch of green, the crimson close to it and a whole lot of other colours?”
“I am still in shock!”
“Why shock?”
“Button, how adorable is this! It shows a baby orangutan being bathed! What wouldn’t I have sacrificed to be in place of whoever is bathing her!”
“Button, there is no better teacher than life itself! No textbook, no degree earned can teach one quite what life can teach us.”
“Button, Monday, September 29, 2014, which was yesterday, was the hottest September day in the last 60 years in Mumbai!”
“That’s what all bears eat. And we don’t cook them the way you do. Did the three of you go out last evening?”
My father, mother, my sister and me.”