Birthdays are usually marked in my house  and while we were growing up, my birthday was the first of the birthdays of the children (things have changed now with the addition of in-laws , nieces and nephews). It was not that we had a party for every celebrant, but it was usually acknowledged and then since most of my siblings were born in June, my dad would sometimes want the celebrations to be done on the last day of June which annoyingly was one of my sibling’s birthday. There was this birthday I remember clearly not because I had a mini party but because I behaved in an unseemly manner,…