(With sincere thanks to my friend Aseem Chandavarkar for supplying the quote that seeded this poem, and my nephew Shantanu Kanade, whose refusal to flinch in the face of adversity inspired it)

(With sincere thanks to my friend Aseem Chandavarkar for supplying the quote that seeded this poem, and my nephew Shantanu Kanade, whose refusal to flinch in the face of adversity inspired it)