“There is a Gujarati word, bhutkur. It doesn’t have a literal translation, but it refers to the past. It’s embedded in our culture that the past has happened and doesn’t need to be revisited. My mother, she rarely goes back in time. This, all of it resurfacing, it’s good for her to see that sometimes it is important to go back and understand what happened, who we were when we made choices. If we don’t think about it, talk about it, how can we learn from it?” “You don’t. You repeat the same patterns, over and over,” Tulsi said.
