Phew!!

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Nowhere in this world can so many things happen in two days. A cricketer returns. A murder case gets closer to being solved. A minister is convicted of murder. A popular film actor is arrested. A bomb hoax in the country's ministerial den. And a certain class of people riot around the nation. (Phew) The whole nation waited with their breaths held hard inside for the return of their "dada". Yes, Ganguly did return(Phew) - but under very suspicious conditions. When the team was doing miserably in good pitches, they did not recall Ganguly. When the team needed good guidance and sharp captaincy, they did not recall Ganguly. And when they saw that the team was tottering in the deadly pitches of South Africa, they decided its time they got back their man into the team. To help them not sink into the galactic world of anonymity. Some....

The night my party ended..forever!

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I did not know that I would die this way. An inglorious and untimely death. I was born in a poor family somewhere in Bangladesh. My parents died before I was five. When I was a teenager, I heard that many from our village have traveled to a distant city called Mumbai for jobs and money. I did not what nations and countries meant. I did not why borders existed. All I knew that if I have to go to Mumbai, I have to go furtively. I have to dupe the BSF folks and board a train from Guwahati or Kolkata to reach Mumbai. No, I do not have to buy a ticket for that ride too. My village folks had told me that ticket-checkers in India (Till then I knew the world is one place) are either too lazy or too greedy to check on poor guys....