Once I was travelling from Darjeeling to Gangtok by road. From a vantage point, where we have stopped to have a sip of tea, my colleague Navneet showed me the sight which I used my Nokia E75 camera to capture. I reproduce the picture as the cover picture of this volume. Have a look at it... The picture shows Rangeet river(the dark coloured one), a tributary of Teesta, getting submerged into Teesta...losing its identity...see the river maintaining its colour, and thereby its separate identity for some time before losing out...it reflects many hues that we go through in life. How long can you...