FORGETTING

<p> When. You. Wake. Up. Tomorrow. Everything. Will. Be. Just. The. Same. Yet. Different. </p><br><br>Time is arguably our biggest enemy. And memory perhaps our greatest curse. Which makes forgetting the hardest thing to do.<br><br>These are stories of difficult pasts and the struggle to leave them behind. Identical-twin rickshaw drivers are wrongly suspected of terrorism in paranoid Bombay; a Calcutta merchant envies each saree he sells for the intimacy it'll share with the woman who buys it; an illicit love affair is conducted over nine potent text messages; a lonely astronaut sings out loud hoping his voice will find an ear somewhere; adivasis jawans Naxalites policemen and journalists in Orissa are caught in a web of violence unleashed on them by both their own histories and that of a nation helplessly repeating it. Forty-nine tales that speak of the power of forgetting.