Sharda alias Gudiyaa, extremely beautiful, was a thirteen year old daughter of Vilas and Kunda. The family of six hailed from Sonegarh, a remote village in Maharashtra, India.

Farming, the sole occupation of the villagers suffered at the hands of Mother Nature, who refused to bless their land with rain. As expected, the gullible and illiterate villagers got entangled in a web of inescapable debt trap. Most of them lost their land to the ruthless money lenders. Vilas was one of them.

Poverty and destitution drove him and his family to Bombay.

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Sameer walked briskly towards Andheri railway station scared at the prospect of traveling by a local train to his office in Churchgate; he had recently received his appointment letter and today was his first day. He had never traveled by train earlier, the need did not arise.

He attended a school which was close to his house. He graduated from an engineering college which was walking distance from his residence. In a way Sameer was lucky, because destiny had kept him away from Mumbai’s infamous transport system.

But he had heard stories. The incidents narrated by some of the regular travelers scared the hell out of him. He was informed that for the uninitiated, traveling in a Mumbai local train could be quite a scary and hair-raising experience.

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Story of Subroto Banerjee who proved that age was not the criteria or a stumble block to achieve something in life. At the age of fifty five he pursued his passion of becoming a singer. With the support of his family and friends Subroto found the success at last.

An ex-marine engineer Subroto spent his whole life fulfilling his family's needs. He sacrified his desires. By the time he was through with his obligations it was too late.

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Doctors have labeled Mahua Basu as a schizophrenic. A term used for people who cannot cope up with extreme situations, like change of place, death in family, change in normal routine and other impossible dilemmas, double-binds and avoidance/attraction etc... Such people cannot proceed in a logical-prefrontal manner. It forces them into angst, perplexity and frustration.

Since energy is not utilized in a normal fashion it builds and leads to a psycho-energetic crisis. The energies of flight fight, having no resolution basically kicks off either a psychotic breakdown ....

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Munna aka Rafiq Ahmed woke up with a jolt. Even after three years the dream tormented him. The frequent nocturnal collage of images which flashed in his sleep brought immense pain and hatred. It was one of those mornings when he woke up perspiring and shaken unlike other mornings when the cacophony of traffic and blaring noise of car horns yanked him out of slumber...

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