The Loss of the Night Sky

As a child I spent a lot of time looking at the stars. I grew up in a small town in east India in the 90s. This was before the boom of cable TV or internet or social media. Often after doing my homework, I’d go out in my front-yard and look at the stars. I was a bit of astronomy geek back then, obsessed with the night sky. We didn’t have telescopes or cameras or any other equipment, but we had…