Summary |
Over the years, Sudha Murty has come across some fascinating people whose lives make for interesting stories and have astonishing lessons to reveal. Take Vishnu, who achieves every material success but never knows happiness; or Venkat, who talks so much that he has no time to listen. In other stories, a young girl goes on a train journey that changes her life forever, an impoverished village women provides bathing water to hundreds of people in a drought-stricken area; a do-gooder ghost dicides to teach a disconsolate young man Sanskrit; and in the title story, a women in a flooded village in Odisha teaches the author a life lesson she will never forget.
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