"Mamma, can we go by train?" Rupa's elder one, Advika, asked. "We never travel by train," the 13-year-old pleaded.
"You will get bored," Rupa responded mechanically as she checked the flight cost and availability to Chennai from Delhi in December.
Rupa's younger son Vivek looked up from his book and said, "Mamma will get bored, she means."
