Words have always had the power to enchant me ever since I was very young. The thrill of putting the right word in the right place started when I began playing the popular word game 'Scrabble'. I spent two years with my paternal grandparents in Shoranur, Kerala, when my Army father was posted in an obscure station where there were no good schools. Every afternoon I would come back from school, and there she would be, my darling grandma, waiting to play Scrabble with me.