Lumos.
Picture Courtesy- Me. When I was in the 3 rd grade, I discovered Suzanne Collins by chance in my school library. I guess it was like discovering a song that would soon top the charts, before everyone else. Yes, this was years before the Hunger Games trilogy came to be, when she had authored a series called the Underland Chronicles. And I absolutely loved the series. And yes there is a point to this reminiscence. In the Underland, a world within our world (or below it, to be precise), the word ‘ light ’ was synonymous with the word ‘ life ’. And only lately have I realised that for the current optimist in me, it was definitely one of the very first positive reinforcements in life. For who could say it better than Stephen Hawking- "However bad life may seem, where there is life, there is hope." It's a simple formula. Life = Light. Life = Hope. Light = Hope. Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying...