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Irona Goswami

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The known stranger

Submitted to Contest #31

I was already broken hearing about the last moment planned meeting in New Jalpaiguri. I was in Lucknow for that week, and I was supposed to go to visit Ma that Sunday, when they decided to hold the meeting. I felt like a refugee then. Like a refugee is banished from a country without his will and wish, I felt the same. But I am not a refugee, I'm an immigrant. I had decided this career myself. My parents wanted me to study IIT but no, I pushed myself into the world of anti-relaxation and anti-relief. I couldn't even call ma that night a...

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