The first time I heard the ‘Jack and Jill’ rhyme, I was in prep school and I asked my teacher

a very obvious question, ‘How did Jack fell down?’ The teacher tried to bail away from it by

saying that Jack was just clumsy but somehow I just couldn’t digest it. The question kept

haunting me throughout my childhood. Something was amiss in the rhyme. Then one day, I

was having lunch with a bunch of friends at the English Dairy in CP and I accidentally spilled

water on the bill (yes, accidentally). Beho...