A Lucknow bigger than India
3 min readAug 25, 2021
When we left India for Singapore, I was eight years old and we had lived all this time in the university campus off the main city of Lucknow. It seemed to me at that time that I had sprung from the Lucknow soil, like the neem tree in front of our house or the peacocks that would announce the twilight. It was as if I was rooted there.
I remember having this conversation with my sister several times as a child:
