“Are you sleeping?” “Well, yes, we were sleeping.” We check the time as our phone lights up the room with a video call. Mumbai is about twelve hours ahead of Pacific Time, so the calls coming from the community during their afternoon or early evening, jangle us awake from midnight to just before we hear the birds singing — way before dawn filters through our drawn curtains. Before the pandemic gripped us all, when we would leave Mumbai for Canada, we looked forward to having