New Delhi, March 25 -- "You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down."

This quote by Charlie Chaplin is seven words long. It does not need to be longer. It says everything it needs to say in the time it takes to read it once.

Chaplin did not write this from a place of comfort. He wrote it as a man who had known genuine suffering: poverty, exile, public humiliation and personal loss.

The lightness of the line is earned. It is not the cheerfulness of someone who has never been hurt. It is the wisdom of someone who has been hurt repeatedly and found a way to keep looking up anyway.

The image is simple. Rainbows exist above the horizon. If your head is down, if you are consumed by grief, resentment, self-pity or fear, you will physic...