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The people you love are your world.

From the original text · Shiva Purana

We light the way home for people we love.

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

A poor friend, a torn cloth, and a palace that opened.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Parvati makes a boy from turmeric paste.

From the original text · Shiva Purana

The churning, and a goddess on a lotus.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

The first music.

From the original text · Brahmavaivarta Purana

The song that dropped the vadai.

From the original text · Oral tradition

Lambikin, lambikin, I'll eat you!

From the original text · Oral tradition

The sparrow's house of wax and the crow's house of dung.

From the original text · Oral tradition

What light means, and why families light a lamp at dusk.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

The divine in me bows to the divine in you.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

A mark between the eyebrows, and what it protects.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

A name that came from far away and fits just right.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

The master map: who is who, and why it matters.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Lamps for a homecoming.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

The master book: three days, a hundred cousins.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Gau mata.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Both, all the way through.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Maya is halfway through a block tower when Dadi calls: aarti time.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

A prison, a storm, a basket across the Yamuna.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Curiosity is good; listen when someone who loves you calls.

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

Leaving the road outside.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

The naming day.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Was it a mango?

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

Charan sparsh: asking for a blessing with your whole body.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

A ring dropped from a branch.

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

A broken tusk for a pen.

From the original text · Shiva Purana

Mum's sister is Masi, Dad's sister is Foi, Mum's brother is Mama, Dad's brother is Kaka.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

A brahmin's greeting under the Rishyamukha hill.

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana

Mooshika.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Yes. Two trees of light.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Nandi at the door, the snake and the mouse who get along.

From the original text · Shiva Purana

A lamp in a clay pot, a circle around it.

From the original text · Devi Mahatmya (Durga Saptashati)

Nine nights in a circle.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

A lamp, a song, a circle of light.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Ganesha's favourite sweet.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

You can be both.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Helping without being asked.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Yashoda looks into a small mouth and sees everything.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Share the sweet thing; love stays; ask next time.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Because a train is long and thepla keeps.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Makar Sankranti and the sky over Ahmedabad.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

From embarrassment to pride, gently.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Yes.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

Because they carried them a long way.

From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources

The poisoned pool and a snake who bows.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

Seven days under a mountain umbrella.

From the original text · Bhagavata Purana

How Hanuman was born to Anjana and the wind.

From the original text · Valmiki Ramayana