Carry Your Fire

Forty personal essays from a life across borders, from Kashmir roots and a Delhi boyhood to Munich and America, each opening with its own painting.

For four years Anup Raina kept a habit: whenever life taught him something, he wrote it down so he would not forget it. Those notes to self became 446 essays. Each season of Perspectives Over Time gathers forty of them, and every essay opens with a painting made from its own story.

Season 1, Carry Your Fire, follows the chinar’s year through eight parts: Roots, Delhi, Crossings, Work, Emotions, Faith, Loss and Tomorrow. It asks what we carry, who carried us, and how we stay curious.