Dehradun, Nov. 2 -- Priyal Misra's family album.

'There is only one thing you should not waste in life, and that's life itself,' said Virginia Woolf.

This loss is irreparable, but this journey is inevitable, too.

Sudhakar Misra was the son of Alak Prakash Misra, a village vaid or herbalist; his mother was a refugee from Burma. He grew up in Mandawar, district Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh, the middle of three brothers and a sister. The eldest, Prabhakar, was the Director of the Indian Photo Interpretation Institute; he followed his children to the United States, where he passed away a couple of years ago. The youngest, Kusmakar, developed schizophrenia and was boarded out of the Indian Air Force where he had been an airman in the 1960s. His ...