The last days of the year cannot help but turn into nostalgia time. What was, what should have been and what shouldn't have been. I try to focus on what was good for me or I'd become terribly weepy. And right now I'm trying to congratulate myself on the two books published last year: Sacked! Folktales You can Carry Around and You Cannot Have All the Answers , a short story collection for a grown up audience. Both books are special for me because their publication comes after years of effort. · What is Sacked about? As it's title indicates, it’s a collection of folktales from different parts of India. T o give a few examples—if we travel from north to south, “Why did the Fish Laugh?” hails from Kashmir, “The Palanquin of the Goddess” and “Roll my Pumpkin” from Uttarakhand, my home state, “The Fruit of Hard Work”, “The Barber’s Secret" and “Night into Day” from different regions of Uttar Pradesh, “The Talking Parrot and the Flying Horse” from West