Walking into the Gale

The first story Platonic Imprint describes a lonely love. A rapid and perfect recovery from a near-fatal injury in the lower spine of a beautiful young daughter in New York led the entire family in Bangalore into a quagmire of questions distrust and infidelity before pure and unflinching love offering the answer. The daughters mission-truth later trace the fact surprisingly to a remote village in rural Bengal.. The second story Walking into the Gale revolves around the intense struggle and fighting spirit of a standard VII pass girl in the second decade of the last century in East Pakistan now Bangladesh. A widow at the age of only 16 with two kids followed by losing her teenage son in a freak accident and a harsh mother-in-law the luckless girl had enough reasons to break-down. However her grit determination and love for life saw her take over the responsibility to run the Zamindari and then an extremely successful NGO setting in the process a silent social revolution about hundred years back in rural Asia. Later she joined the liberation struggle and helped millions of poor and displaced refugees. In her untimely departure in sleep a few weeks after a violent military coup an untiring empathic soul bid goodbye to an unsung torturous life.