I was recently at Sasan, in the Gir forests of Gujarat, for a research and writing project. The government lodge there offers not very glamorous but clean and affordable accommodations so I took a room there. It was there that I heard about Lothal one cold evening...
Fatima was a 72-year-old widow. It had been 10 years since she’d lost her husband of 42 years. Her sons Haider and Aftab Khan, their wives and children had been very good to her during the initial years of her widowhood. But they had lives to live, places to go and...