Thirteen months later, Present.
Bus honks outside our residence.
We finished out breakfast.
“Surat! Come on fast! Your bus is here!”
“Daddy!…….. Shoe-lace…….!” cried Surat.
Meet Surat, my daughter. She is now six and a half years old now. And yes she has started speaking now. She stammers but Avni says she will recover with time. She is recovering. The treatment will continue for the next three years until she is fully recover, until she can speak properly without stammering. But she is a lot better now. She now tries to speak, talk and even sing sometimes.
I remember my last conversation with Hasrat was that night when she wanted me to name our daughter. I couldn’t complete my task then because I really didn’t know what to name her. So I named her Surat, Surat Pran Madhvan. After th
