Anirban Chatterjee Insights

First in a series I carry two perfumes now. I choose between them the way I choose a socks — quickly, without thinking, the way a habit is supposed to work. Our house has a room freshener too. Some lemon-and-something scent that a can promises will last for weeks. It does its job. I press the nozzle, a fine mist settles over the room, and for a few hours the air smells like nothing in particular. Pleasant. Forgettable. I did not grow up like this. For twenty four years, the w