Cheenti Cheenti Bang Bang

Grandmothers were our first adventure-fantasy pilots - the first to take us to exotic kingdoms where animals, insects and birds co-habited, fought, celebrated, sulked, and together reasoned out some profound truths of life. What was mind-boggling was the sheer quantity of stories, which had enough variety to outdo a thousand episodes of Nach Baliye. And even the re-runs were fun - whenever a story was repeated, we would still listen wide-eyed, as though it were crisp breaking news, and every time, when the moral of the story was underlined with a 'Hence Proved' certainty, we would nod sagely.<....