There is a quiet smile often hidden away when this writer watches old grandmothers try to make conversation with their Gen Alpha relatives at home. It often feels like two civilisations trying to make conversation, bridging phrases with familiar words of ‘Tanglish’ (Tamil and English), and desperate hand signs. It is the memory of hearing these phrases that makes Kalyani Ganapathy’s Ingey Angey: Here and There (AdiDev Publishers) fun reading.