I’m one of those kids who did not do too well in essay writing competitions. I did not win a year’s subscription to Children’s World where my prize-winning photo with Shankar was printed with my prize winning essay on ‘Children are the Future of the Nation’ (never mind if you’re under 30, you don’t have to get every reference in the world). Nor did I win several a glossy book of ‘Flags of the World’ for writing one thousand words on ‘The History of the United Nations’.

Illustration/Amit Bandre