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The Weekend

It was December 2015, and I was returning from my office. I was coming by a shared auto and dropped by a metro station at cyber city, Gurugram. From there, I decided to walk to my room as it was nearby. It was around 10 PM and I got late due to some pending work at the office. As I walked a few meters, I saw a young man lying on the road, he was badly drunk, unconscious, and partly wet may be due to vomiting. A lot of people were passing by, but no one was bothered to check his well-being. Many times, I also see beggars in a similar state who do it intentionally to get some money, but this guy was different. He was well dressed, wearing branded clothes, and shoes, and I was able to assume that he was an employee in some nearby private firm. In the cyber city, Gurgaon resides many private firms and maybe he was working in one of the firms. So, looking into his attire, I thought that this may not be a normal case and I should enquire. I went closer to him and tried to push him to bring h

Inspiration From A Luna Driver

It was a cold shivering morning of 18 th  Jan 22 in the northern Indian city of western Uttar Pradesh Meerut. Weather was very harsh and covid cases were surging in all parts of India. Most of the tech people like me were working from home and were comfortably placed inside 4 walls of their warm rooms. The sun was playing hide and seek and getting the clothes soaked in Sun was one of the most critical tasks. The cold weather was making everybody reluctant to travel by two-wheelers and car was the most appropriate mode of transport. If somebody asks me to go and bring some stuff from the market, the person seems to be the cruelest person on earth. But my better half asked me to bring some stuff from the market and I decided to take the best mode of transport, which is also energy saving, I decided to walk to the shop. In between, I saw a person on an old model Luna carrying a lot of items loaded all over his vehicle. He had so many items on the vehicle that I could only see his face cle