On Tuesday, my father escaped what could have been a serious fire accident in his kitchen. When he recounted what had happened, I had just had news of our trekking guide in Nepal losing his mother to third degree burns she received cooking on their open hearth stove. A few days before, the granddaughter of a well-known Indian politician succumbed to burns from Diwali firecrackers. And before that, the mother of a close childhood friend passed after battling burns sustained while doing puja at home. Each one of these events is so recent and raw that I realise how callous we are about keeping our homes safe. Each of these…