Diwali with the Single Dad

He forgot how to celebrate. She was hired to help him remember.

Siddharth Kapoor can design a skyscraper that shrugs off a Chicago winter, but he cannot make a paper diya glow for his six-year-old daughter. Three years after losing his wife, the townhouse is quiet, his inbox is overflowing and Diwali is only days away.

Maya wants the festival her mother used to make: the lamps, the sweets, the noise, the light. So Siddharth does what any architect does with an impossible brief. He hires a professional. What arrives is a warm, endlessly patient event planner with an armful of marigold garlands, a bottomless bag of fairy lights and an inconvenient habit of asking him how he actually feels.

As the house fills with colour and the two of them learn to celebrate again — one paper lantern, one lopsided rangoli and one bedtime story at a time — Siddharth begins to suspect that the part of Diwali he has been missing was never about the decorations at all.

What’s inside

• A heartwarming single-dad holiday romance
• A widowed father, his six-year-old daughter and their first Diwali without her mother
• Paper diyas, marigold garlands and a slow second chance at happiness

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