Time is arguably our biggest enemy. And memory, perhaps, our greatest curse. Which\n\nmakes forgetting the hardest thing to do.\n\nIdentical-twin rickshaw drivers are wrongly suspected of terrorism in paranoid Bombay;\n\na Calcutta merchant envies each saree he sells for the intimacy it'll share with the\n\nwoman who buys it; an illicit love affair is conducted over nine potent text messages; a\n\nlonely astronaut sings out loud, hoping his voice will find an ear somewhere; adivasis,\n\njawans, Naxalites, policemen and journalists in Orissa are caught in a web of violence\n\nunleashed on them by both their own histories and that of a nation helplessly repeating\n\nit.\n\nHere are forty-nine stories that speak to the power of forgetting.\n\nStories of difficult pasts, and the struggle to leave them behind.