I call her Badibai—the elder mother. It is a heavy title, perhaps, for a woman who is my sister, but from the moment I opened my eyes to the world, her affection has been so encompassing that the name simply stuck, fitting her as naturally as a well-worn cotton sari.
The Boy Who Topped Two Coaching Institutes
A Sunday morning with the newspaper, an old habit not yet broken, turns up a curious coincidence: the same NEET topper claimed by two rival coaching institutes on consecutive front pages. A story about what medical entrance coaching in India has quietly become.
