One a dull April afternoon, while recovering from the COVID-19 virus I’m listening to the song Yeh Delhi Hai Mere Yaar from the 2009 Delhi-6, and apart from the gently soothing cadence of the song, what I love is the lyrics.

Bass Ishq Mohabbat Pyaar, the playfully stylish, only slightly seductive chorus sings. They take me right back to New Delhi, where I almost grew up, and where I have been living for the last four years. Benny Dayal’s voice is slightly old fashioned, in that urban, Anglo-Indian, slightly modern kind of way, but mostly he sounds like home.