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Before a big move, a little girl receives a handmade kurta from her Aaji, with two big pockets filled with small reminders of her grandparents, and she helps make two more kurtas for them, allowing the family to feel close despite the distance across a big ocean.

When Sona learns about the climate crisis at school and is very worried that no one is doing enough to combat it, she takes up the challenge herself. But Appa isn't amused when Sona throws out her baby sister's nappies and Thatha isn't happy when she tells him to get rid of his colour-coded plastic files. When Sona learns that many of the kolams - the traditional art that people draw in front of their homes to celebrate the winter months and the festival...

Mehar did not come to India planning to break up her estranged father's wedding, but she is convinced that socialite Naz is only after his money and title; except she soon begins to question many of her assumptions about her parents' relationship, and her own place in his world--especially when she begins to fall in love with Sufiya, her grandmother's assistant. Mehar hasn't been back to India since she and her mother moved away when she was only...