Rohan found out the hard way, at 11:47 PM, that the school portal closed admissions sharp at midnight. He had eleven of the twelve required documents scanned and uploaded. The twelfth — his daughter’s immunization card — was sitting in a drawer at his mother’s house, forty minutes away, because she’d taken the baby for …
Nisha visited seven preschools in eleven days. By the fourth one, she’d started keeping notes on her phone, because the schools had genuinely started blurring together in her memory — the same bright primary colours on the walls, the same laminated “Our Little Stars” boards, the same coordinator saying “we follow a holistic curriculum” in …
Ritu had the form filled out for three weeks before she actually submitted it. Her daughter, Aanya, had just turned two, and every WhatsApp parenting group Ritu was part of seemed split into two camps: the ones triumphantly posting “admission confirmed!” for two-year-olds, and the ones insisting, with equal conviction, that sending a child to …
