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            That night, two city constables were patrolling the airport road when they saw five or six cab drivers sitting on the footpath drinking alcohol and gambling. When police went to the gamblers, everyone ran away leaving the money at stake. The two found were brought to police station, when both of them were interrogated and searched, seven or eight receipts were found in the pocket of a 35-year-old cab driver named Kishore Kumar, who had 960 gram pawned gold jewellery in the famous finance company.  Suspicious police questioned Kishore he remained silent.  When asked in their typical police style, he said, I was working in a transport company in a remote district and wanted to have my own vehicle. A Swift car was for sale which had been seized by the bank, and bought it with a loan from them. Then came to this city and became a cab driver for food and Ola companies, one day I picked up a 40 year old woman Sangeeta from a area in the...

           Prashant, who was rich and involved in the clothing business, was a member of some of the prestigious clubs of the city, to promote his business one evening at his club a man in a suit came up to him and said hello.  When Prashant said, 'I don't know who you are',  he said, 'My name is Ramakrishnan, I am a scientist and businessman living in Mumbai, doing export business' and gave his visiting card. In visiting card it was printed as  he was a consultant of the American space agency NASA, Japan, France, and British space agencies.  'What is your business?' Prashant asked,  'If you give time, I will visit your office and will explain you, said Ramakrishnan, Prashant agreed and told  him to visit his office.      The next day, Ramakrishnan came to Prashant's office in a BMW car. T here were white Boleros in front and behind it, and four men in black safari suits got out of their jeeps even as t...

     Jagadish (42) was a science teacher in a school in Gujarat's Gandhinagar district. He was married to his fellow teacher Vaishali (39) and they have two children Vihangi (10) and Priyam (5). Jagadish had about 10 acres of land and was earning a decent income from it. One day Vaishali's cousin Kishore who was in America came to his house described his beautiful life in America. Many Indians who did not know how to write letters have built their lives in America and are rich today said Kishore, why are you wasting your life in this small town? He left a worm in Vaishali's head to immigrate to America with his family. Vaishali's desire to immigrate to America was like a budding day.  It grew into a tree. She kept pestering her husband about this. Jagadish succumbed to her insistence and went to a travel agent in the capital to find out how to migrate to America. It is very difficult for him to migrate there, he has to wait several years to get a tourist visa. He sai...

          It was the biggest apartment in a metropolis, with ten residential blocks and 3000 homes. Prahalad and Shanta lived on the 6th floor of A Block of this complex. Both of them were software employees and their three-and-a-half-year-old son was studying in a nursery school. Shanta's parents also lived in G block of the same complex. They used to take care of Shanta's son in her absence. At the beginning of the year, a doctor named Sandeep from North India rented the apartment opposite Shanta. He joined a medical college for a super specialty degree. His 26-year-old wife Smitha was a housewife. Since Smitha was new to the town, she depended mostly on Shanta for her needs.           Having celebrated Gauri Vrat that year at her home, Shanta invited her relatives and neighbors to her home for an evening turmeric and Kumkum rituals to ladies. Smitha reached Shanta's house half an hour before other invitees and retu...