Look carefully. A photo is really a portal, capturing a moment from the past, but also pointing to how much has changed
During one of my periodical clean-outs of my study, I came upon an unmarked white envelope tucked away in one of my drawers. I opened it cursorily and was immediately transported to another world. There was the teenage me, wearing a red silk sari, posing alongside my college friends, all of us holding up trophies that we had obviously won at some tournament or festival, long since lost to memory.
When I look at old pictures of my parents, I wonder how they went from being stony-faced strangers to that couple that laughed so uproariously, their eyes fixed on one another.
Looking at photos of my younger self (seen here with husband Vir Sanghvi), I am struck by how much better I look in retrospect and am reminded to be kinder to my middle-aged self.