Stepping through an elegant, pointed arch onto the pattern-painted concrete of the dusty colonnade, I suddenly felt a sense of familiarity and belonging. Two weeks into my Indian adventure, I had finally found the exact spot in Ludhiana, Punjab, where my grandfather photographed his iconic lamp prototype in 1953. In that moment, I also realised I was standing outside the very room where he had lived with my grandmother, then just 22 years old, on the floor where my father had crawled as a baby so many decades ago.
