New Delhi, 3rd of January, 2010: an old woman is slowly and sadly trying to control her emerging tears, which are about to take the form of drops and roll down her wrinkled cheeks. Her intermittent sobs echo in that big dark room of the big house in Patel Nagar. The front door is securely bolted from the inside and there is no other living soul in the other six rooms, which once used to be filled with the laughter and shrieks of her sons and daughter. It is the last house in the lane, next to a small public garden that makes it look more secluded than the other houses in the area. The facade of the house looks dilapidated, for it used to be repainted almost every year a few years ago, but now things have changed. The yellow fading paint is streaked with the dark blackening green streaks that have been made by rain water. The plants in the small garden in front of the house are now only stumps waiting to be uprooted if somebody really wanted to give a new life to the garden..................................
India Minus-A Journey of Unfulfilled Dreams
Copyright
Table of Content
Foreword
New Delhi
Departure from Lahore
The Journey
Lala Moolchand
A New Leaf to Life
Emerging India
Arjun
Bangalore Connection
Angela
Komal Singh
Monika
Happiness
Militancy
Bangalore Again
Back in Delhi
Bliss Departs
Brothers Together
Expectations
Gurbachan Singh
Father’s Discontent
Disclosure
Affliction
Baroda
Power of Time
Daughter’s Separation
Mother