Who Are You, Nanu?

Anjini Taneja Azhar

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15 min

After her Nanu’s (‘grandfather’ in Hindi) ceremonial cremation brings her to the Holy Ganges River in India, nine year-old oddball Isha befriends the phantom of her Nanu’s own rambunctious nine year-old self. After being told those who die end up on the Moon by her father, a sentiment from a traditional Indian lullaby, Isha and her Nanu’s ghost go there themselves, fueled by curiosity and a yearning for the connection they could never form whilst Nanu was alive.