Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Mothers and fathers have an extra set of hands when they need them, and children and grandparents connect, building the kind of deep and lasting relationships that I had with Thatha and that Preetha has with my mother and Raj's parents.

Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.

My mother celebrated every Hindu festival with the appropriate rituals, but no one acknowledged birthdays. My parents never hugged us, kissed us, or said, "I love you.". Love was assumed. We never shared fears or hopes and dreams with our elders. They just were not the kind to have those conversations.

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.