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Dimmipur is a remote village in the state of Telangana. The population of 1000 villagers is distributed among 200 families within a few kilometer away from National Highway. If you miss a road transport bus which comes only once in the morning and returns back in the evening, then there is no way you can reach the nearest town. Thereafter you have to walk 12-15 kms to Highway and take lift from the passing lorries. Villagers were not even sure if the road transport bus would come or not… With no electricity, everyone preferred to stay indoors for fear of snakes and scorpions as it became dark. Most of the families were depended on agriculture and livestock. Children used to drop out of school after their primary education as they didn’t have a high school in the village. They may require to travel a long distance to reach to the nearest government high school. The closest one was about 8 kms away in another village where children from all the neighboring villages would c...

It was JP and Jaya’s first marriage anniversary and they had called few of their very close friends to a pub, it was a grand celebration and it went on to wee hours, JP has always been a social drinker but that day due to force of his friend and wife he had a couple of drinks more. When it was time to leave JP suggested let’s take a cab rather than driving, Jaya, mocked him and said, “down in couple of drinks?!!” JP said nothing of that kind; I thought “why trouble, with cops?” Saying that he sat in his car and Jaya came and sat next to him, He saw a packet in his rear seat and asked, we never had that packet in our car did you get anything, she said, no may be our friends would have kept that as a gift for you…it’s okay, let us go home and check. Both of them listing to some old Bollywood music and singing along were very happy; very close to their house a lorry was coming at a high speed from the opposites direction and headlights of the vehicle made JP bind, to avoid acci...

After a long summer break, I was travelling alone to join a new college and a hostel, the thought of it was giving me enough Goosebumps. The entire family had come to see me off at Secunderabad station. My younger brother was all happy that he will have our room all for himself and he gave me a piece of suggestion, “Enjoy!! Your hostel life, you can do whatever you want” after a pause, he said “You will have pretty girls also” and winked at me…I couldn’t react, I was tensed. He was two years younger than me but we had great relation and more like friends… My mother had a list of instructions for me and then the last one, again one more, then again a last one while my dad was keeping my luggage into the train. When the train was about to start, he asked me to go in and sit on my seat. I just wanted to go back home, I looked at my father, anticipating he would also say that!!! He gave me a warm hug and had only one thing to say, “It is bad world out there, be careful an...

At 72, Ramkrishna looked very healthy, happy, and playful. He had a very strict schedule for the day; started his day with a morning walk, then his morning tea accompanied with reading newspaper which would go on for a couple of hours, every line of the paper has to be read. He would have his breakfast and walk down to the local library, where he would read magazine or few more papers. He used to always feel why not a single soul visit the place, he would some time discuss politics or literally matters with the library-in-charge as they both would be alone there. Coming back home, he would have his lunch and take an hour’s nap; he would then switch on his system and with his hot coffee, would become active on social media. He was very active with his views on twitter. His grandson has taught him how to operate different social media and used to chat on Skype with them. After a couple of hours, he would walk down to the colony park where he sometime finds his retired frien...

Rajesh in his late 40s had a lot of time in his hand. Everyone in his family was busy in their own world. His wife was very active with local NGO and most of her Sunday's used to go on working on some slum or some meetings. She was very happy doing that, so Rajesh never shared his loneliness with her. He had two kids, Ram and Lakshmi, very smart. He was not worried about them. They were good in their studies and other activities. They were studying in one of the best college in the city and most of the time busy either with their friends or studies. They were quite addicted to music, so remained inside their room most of time studying or listening to music. Whenever the family planned for dinner outings, they had their music on through the earplugs and the family hardly had anything to speak to each other. Being at leisure, he started spending his time working in his make shift workshop in his garage. Although he was an engineer, he was...