Daddy always cautioned me
how many rupees it took to get
a dollar; and when I bought my first
Chanel lipstick, it was as if
I might have bought a cow in India.
It was always like that - what I
could have had were we in Delhi.
So that on holiday at Reno Road
he´d hint that Washington was not
like home. That´s why he didn´t want
me window-shopping downtown.
Reetika Vazirani

The lines struck me as unusually sensitive. Unfortunately, I haven't read any of her works, or heard of her for that matter, until she died. Just learnt a lot more about her when my uncle who's now based out of Thrissur in Kerala wrote a tribute to her -- Living in America, Dying In America