Dear Daughter ....

“I like the super hero music” - you whispered in my ear while watching the first thriller sequence during Incredibles-2. Its summer vacations for you and both of us had gone to watch the movie together. So far you were not so keen on watching movies in cinemas or watching superhero stuff at all but somehow I think watching miarulous ladubug has helped convert you into a fan of the genre. You liked the movie and came back with a couple of favorites - unsurprisingly teenaged Violet and the toddler ‘Jack Jack’ were the ones that caught your fancy. I guess you are too young to appreciate the super strengths of the dad and mom in the movie. Dear Daughter This one is short on details about you and more about things happening around you. For this has been a strangely disruptive summer and not always in a good way. Your Daadi, my mom, has been with us in UK for a while now on an Indian Passport. This summer we had a major victory. After years of complicated efforts involving money, mettle and ...

Dear Daughter, Its been another two months since you’ve turned five and I’m yet again late in writing to you. Your fifth birthday was a Unicorn themed affair with a purple twilight sparkle starring on the invitation card. You did take a while to decide what theme you wanted as every other character or theme seemed to ignite your imagination right from the start. At some point or the other you were interested in hatchimals and at another it was the Miraculous Ladybug (that’s was your favourite TV show for a few months. You rarely watched anything other than that but now you are back to Paw Patrol) . The latest trend in the collectible eggs (colleggtibles for short – yes that’s a thing in late 2010s) category is L.O.L. Surprises but by the time you caught on to it and declared it to be your desired theme, we had planned and made bookings based on your last choice i.e. Unicorn / Pony – not the same thing but you were not complaining and that’s all that matters. You didn’t really stop at t...