How do you explain hearing steps beside you all the way, for four kilometers, up a hilly, curvy, bare path, when you cannot see anyone, try as you might, and it is not even midnight? How can a skinny girl of fourteen hurl grown wrestlers around, swear in a guttural tone and eat a tub full of raw flour? Why does a grown man run all the way back from the forest and tell about meeting a sexy woman in the middle of the night? Why do five teenagers cower all night long in a cave, hearing things that could never be? Why does a heavy trap door in the floor that needs two hefty men to pull it open,...

"Birth, life and rebirth are an eternal wheel of sorrow and misery. The only salvation from the wheel of life is an escape to the peace of Nirvana." Urvashi would do anything to be successful. She saw men as stepping stones on her way up, and used her beautiful body as a means of achieving her ends. She succeeded in becoming a superstar of the silver screen. What then, went horribly wrong? Kumar had not heard the term "Gay" until the doctors applied it-to him. Struggling to understand himself, shunned by an orthodox society, disowned by his parents, expelled by college, blamed for the suicide...

Pia was a sweet seventeen, a college student in Shimla. Sartaj was ten years older than her, a wildlife photographer from Australia. Pia and Sartaj met, fell in love with each other and wanted to marry. Pia's dad opposed-"So, you have no family, don't know what caste you belong to, or who your father had been, have no home, property, or a steady job, no professional degree to get one with, and you think you can marry my daughter?" He vowed to get a rich groom for his daughter. And he did. Sartaj went on to become a renowned wildlife photographer and settled in Australia with a string of...