December 4. “I got fed-up trying to check my mail on Google and Yahoo. God knows why it’s so slow!”

“It happens sometimes. It’s a lot like our lives—at times it works like clockwork and yet, at other times, it slows down. What’s there to get fed-up over?”

“Button, you and your gyaan. You’re one of the most gyaani specimens I’ve come across. Bus karo. The weather is getting lovelier by the day. You remember the winter of 2007? It was really chilly. Never in all the years of our being in Mumbai was it that cold. The sad part was that it lasted only for a short spell.”

“I am beginning to like the weather though I don’t find this temperature cold in the least.”

“Don’t you ever feel like going back home—I mean up to the north? By all means, this is your family but that must be something else—I mean being with those who are like you.”

“I do but don’t have the heart to go any place because you have given me so much love.”

“Thank you for saying such nice things.”