The lights came on
April and May meant summer vacations and happiness forever! Well atleast for 2 months. It meant we were free to zoom in and out of homes of our friends and play in the park till it got dark! My dad had to travel to a remote city near Jamshedpur and since my uncle lived there, he took my granny along with him. That meant mom had to now manage the 3 terrors and home all by herself. Every dad is his daughter’s knight in shining armour and so my strict grandpa came trotting about from Chennai to help mom with the 3 of us, while she went to school for half day duty. And so with the arrival of grandpa we did get back into a routine. He was a Railway Station master you see, and keeping time for everything was sacrosanct. Most days were filled with fun and frolic with friends, there were only 2 rules, back home for lunch and again back before it got dark in the evening. It was another sunny april morning and I valiantly tried to ensure that my pesky brother did not acc