The Ant's View of Things is a memoir of growing up across a series of rented houses in 1970s and 80s India — of government colonies and summer afternoons, guava trees and VCR nights, grandparents' homes and childhood's particular way of making ordinary things unforgettable.

At its heart is the story of a sister and a brother — a relationship lived in shared fruit, small quarrels, quiet acts of care, and all the things that never needed saying aloud.

This is also a book about what remains. Not the large moments that announce themselves as important, but the ones we didn't know we were keeping — a burn mark that survives for decades, a pen drawing on a back, the last ordinary evening before everything changed.

Some things are never lost. They simply learn how to wait inside us.