I would never have imagined that two drops of urine could have such an exhilarating effect on my heart, until the day my emotionally elated wife sent me a picture on WhatsApp of her positive pregnancy test. With it was a message: ‘Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.’ For a flash, I thought she believed I was Rajnikanth (when you’ve lived in south India too long, that’s the first thing you think of when someone passes a supernatural comment) but the enormity of that statement sunk in after rereading it several times over.
