Volume IV. SEEDS OF CHANGE
Tides of Time
A memoir of seasons, of people who shaped a life, and of the quiet currents beneath them.
Tides of Time gathers the later chapters of a life lived across cities, languages, and generations. It is a book about memory — what it keeps, what it releases, and what it gently re-arranges.
Each chapter is a tide: a return to a moment, a face, a doorway. Together they trace the shoreline of a self being shaped.
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Selected articles from this volume
Family
What the Table Remembers
A kitchen table, three generations, and the geography of belonging.
Family
Inheritance
What was handed down, and what I have chosen to keep.
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Related archive content
From the family archive
The Lucknow House, 1962
Courtyard at first light, as remembered in the opening chapter.
K Grandmother's recipe ledger
Handwritten, in three languages.
Letters from Bombay
1971–1978, kept in a tin box.
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Reader responses
"An unhurried, deeply observed book. Reading it felt like sitting on a verandah at dusk.'
— A. Mehta, reader
"Tender, exact, and quietly radical in its refusal to perform."
— S. Krishnan
"Nikhat writes the small things the way other writers attempt the grand ones."
— Indian Review of Books
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