Amma: Ajay, you have to listen to me. When Akash left me that letter, it rattled me. I grew up with rules, faith, and all those things drilled into me. So I tried to pass them on to you and your brother. But the way he wrote about my body, about me giving birth to him, it hit a nerve I didn’t even know I had.

Amma: I was furious. And honestly, scared too. The nerve of him—he knew it was wrong, sinful even. Still, the way he wrote, the things he dared to say. He didn’t stop there. He talked about your father and me, how we barely spent any time together.