“Garvita!” exclaimed my father on a sunny afternoon looking up from his Samsung mobile phone, “Why do people converse in superlatives? I never do! Do you think I am a misfit on the internet?” he asked. I looked at him, my eyes cringing to avoid the sun, and said, “Papa, it’s just a confused culture and you’re fine, you don’t need to worry.”
I mulled over his question for a long time. He went back to Dehradun and I turned to the internet to investigate his question.