What is Life?
In Between Life & Death We often visit hospitals, the last time I visited a hospital was a few days back when my grandma was ill, after ending the visiting hour, after the evening I was standing with my relatives and saying our goodbyes and taking tea together from a local shop across the street from the hospital. The evening had settled in; it was getting dark and the street lights flickered on. I was taking a sip of tea and looking at the blue light of the ambulance that had just arrived. At that moment a scene unfolded before me that I'll never forget- I saw a hearse also parked nearby, somebody died and came to take the dead body, and in the ambulance, a mother was going home with her newborn child. One car was carrying a new life—fresh, innocent, just beginning its journey of life—while another was carrying a dead body with no life, which had reached the end of its journey of life in that car. Life had begun for one and ended for another. Those moments stopped me in my t...