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A summer trip---

Its 5 a.m. An early summer morning in the heart of Indian Subcontinent. The daylight has already indicated the beginning of another hot day. We were in platform No. 6 in NDLS. In between Purushottam Express and Shramjeevi Express (coming from Rajgir). Yellings of people everywhere. My eyes were wandering in the platform as if I was looking for a missing person . The crowd was of poor people from different places in India. Male, female, boys and girls, majority are youngsters. My eyes last focused on a small family, seems they were from Bihar. The young wife tries to dress her small naughty son. She forces him to wear a small trouser and the boy was running here and there. Last the by surrendered and the mother could win. Standing near to him was his elder brother and his father. Father appears to be in his mid 25’s, but looking like a College Boy with smart dressing though he was of medium built. His wife was dark complexioned and the saree was carelessly folded either side of t