India, June 21 -- This Father's Day, leave the gifts aside, sit with him in the quiet, and finally ask who he was long before he became your dear Papa

We sit across the room from the men who raised us and let the silence hang heavy. It happens in homes everywhere. A son or daughter can chat endlessly with the postman or a stranger on the bus, yet five minutes alone with their dad feels like trying to speak a forgotten language. The love is absolutely there, buried deep in the chest, but it stays buried. Instead of asking the questions that actually matter, families stick to the safest scripts imaginable. They discuss the rain outside, the price of petrol, or the football scores, completely ignoring the massive distance growing right in t...