Dear Sanju,

   You are entering a new phase in your life. Now you are on your own. It is your life. In the past you made some choices. In future you may have to make many more decisions, big and small. One leads to the other; there is a chain reaction. In every single situation, there are plenty of options. Your future depends on the choices you make. Your parents have done their best. Hereafter they may not be available to guide you on a day to day basis.

   I do not know what your ambitions were. What you wanted to become. We are not destined to realise all our dreams. There are some disappointments and unfulfilled desires. But life goes on; time moves forward and we have to chase our next goal. It is always beyond our reach. We have to make compromises, change our lives, our views, our path and our goals.

   To be very honest, we are strangers. I do not know you, or you know me. It is true of Shanthi and Jayanthi, even....