Shankari tells the touching story of a mother who had a baby born with hydrocephalus, and how she looked after him with pleasure and love.

Often I would ask her- why she chose it so? The doctors had offered her the easier, more convenient option. There would have been a quick termination of the pregnancy and she would have moved on. The grief may surface, the grieving limited as she would never have had the baby, looked into his eyes, smelt him, felt him and physically bonded with him. Her life as a financial consultant could have continued. After some time, she may have healed enough to have conceived again- and a more acceptable physical form may have issued.