Collaged image made with photos by Praveen Kumar Nandagiri (Canadian flag) and Markus Spiske (barbed wire) on Unsplash Within faint memories, I hear my joy intertwining with that of my childhood friend, W.’s, transcending colonial regimes and borderlands. I fondly remember the sun and the swings holding our tiny bodies as we swayed freely in the air. I achingly remember the day I saw a picture of him and his sister – his face emotionally hollowed – on the front page of a newspaper. He a...