Chapter-style tales — stories about respecting elders, told at the right depth for 10–12 year olds. Every one ends with a short Talk About It prompt, never a stated moral.
When Dadu moves from Delhi to Toronto to live with them, Aarav mostly notices what his grandfather gets wrong — the shawl in the snow, the loud Hindi at pickup. It takes one hard January evening to see what moving cost the old man.
Dada tells the same stories over and over — the flood, the bicycle, the transfer order — and Reyansh has heard them all a hundred times. Then a school assignment makes him actually listen.