On 25 March 2010, in a hospital in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram, Sheeja gave birth to her daughter, Sandra. Within hours, doctors delivered a diagnosis that would reshape the next sixteen years of her life. Sandra had microcephaly, a rare condition in which the brain does not develop sufficiently. Many children born with it do not survive. Sandra did. However, survival, Sheeja would learn, was only the beginning. What followed were years that blu…
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