India, April 19 -- Come summer, it's time to turn not just indoors, but also inwards.

It's the season of inner journey. Paradoxically though, for most Tweeple, it is time for the outer journey. The big fat stuffed summer vacation. (Sometimes stuffy, not stuffed. What with global warming playing spoilsport).

Inwards is the new indoors. What with the slowness trend spreading its spell, like the scents of sweet peas and rajnigandhas. For better or for converse.

The digital-age trend of returning to "grandma core" pastimes or "granny hobbies" is nothing but nani-dadi nostalgia in new bottle.

The slowness wave is nothing but childhood's summer masterclass repackaged and re-invented. With frills, fashionable jargon and fanfare.

The return ...