Children can come up with the most interesting answers to many things in life. Sometimes answers to questions we ourselves never really manage to find. It’s amazing to see how innocence can address complex issues of life.

When Dad recently succumbed to cancer,I was left lost. An emptiness all of a sudden crept within me. Though practically I did know that death is a part and parcel of life, I couldn’t really see the lifeless body of my father. I questioned things…the soul, human existence and a general anger over why him.

On a sunny winter morning as I sat in my verandah pondering over these thoughts, my 6-year-old sensed I wasnt all well. She had earlier asked me at the time of death as to what happened to grandpa, and where has he gone? I told her the usual story that now grandpa has become a star.

Anyways, seeing me…