There’s a certain kind of courage that doesn’t announce itself loudly… it just quietly refuses to go back.   That’s the feeling that stayed with me while reading The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi.   Not the kind of courage we celebrate on stages. The quieter one. The kind that rebuilds a life from scratch… and then guards it like a secret.   Lakshmi’s journey begins in escape—but what unfolds is not a story of running away. It’s a story of carefully constructing a life where eve