Some magic requires no wands. It is a quieter craft—the gentle, persistent pull that keeps scattered stars in the same constellation. For three decades, in our constellation of schoolyard souls, that magic has been Preeti. She is …
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Rain
“Ven, cariño,” I call, patting the sofa by the balcony where Madrid folds into itself in terracotta and laundry lines. The rain here is different—cleaner somehow, less perfumed than Pune or Mumbai—but at sixty, I have learned that rain, like memory, changes flavor …