Short Story On the day Srijan joined the residential school, a 14-year old boy was arrested from his neighbourhood for raping a 6-year old girl. Srijan’s parents decided to put him in a residential school when he reached class 9 so that he could devote his entire time to studying and thus prepare himself for the medical course that would in due course of time enable him to fulfil his ambition to become a cardiologist. In a world where people were becoming increasingly heartless cardiologists would be in great demand, his parents thought. Srijan was not so clear about his life’s purpose and its relationship with the world’s hearts. But he knew clearly that his parents wouldn’t do anything without clear purposes. So he accepted New India Public School with his whole heart. A few days in the school made Srijan wonder whether his parents had made a mistake. He was sitting on one of the steps leading down to the playgrounds pondering about what some of his companions in t
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