January 1999 – Quite possibly the biggest event happening in the world was the launch of Mars Polar Lander by NASA on January 3rd with the aim to study the soil and climate near the South Pole on Mars. However, for Mrs. Naina Sameer Maheshwari the biggest event was…

Weddings… Naina had thought dreamily about them when she was a teenager, emotionally when she was engaged at the tender age of eighteen, and practically when she finally married at twenty-four. But all those times she had never thought about how much of a pompous affair Indian weddings can…

It was a beautiful evening of December 18th, another Friday that was extremely critical as once more Sameer Maheshwari’s life was on the brink of a very major change. It was the last day in Naina’s apartment, tomorrow they would be moving to his house… Vedanta Villas… A place…