Diviya A.

was born in Kolkata, India, into a life that began in motion. My earliest memories were not rooted in a single place, but on a ship, where I spent the first five years of my life. That chapter began after a freak accident that could have taken my father—or my mother—or both. Instead, it left behind a deeper truth: that life is fragile, unpredictable, and precious. Even before I had the language fo