When I was young, a teacher of mine compared me to a tiny bird that used to be found commonly in Kerala. I don’t know its English name. In Malayalam, it was known as thuthukunukki pakshi – literally, ass-shaking bird. Its posterior would always be shaking whenever it was resting in any place. The teacher who discovered the analogy between the ass-shaker and me explained that the little bird assumed that the world moved because it shook its ass.