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Imagine if the bench you’re\n sitting on could read your mind. What if it had a voice? What if it knew that\n you lie daily, in your marriage, in your job, to the mirror, to the world?\n Upon a bright red bench, there is guilt, confusion, stupidity, and even the\n desire to commit a crime and get away with it. The bench knows you are here\n to seek wisdom and calmness and all those virtues that you observe and admire\n in the lives of others. In this story of stories, there are bankers, artists,\n engineers, journalists,designers, dreamers and doers, who roam the world in\n search of attention and approval. When their ordinary lives bring them to a\n bench, they find life-altering realisations. There is a journey inwards into\n the present, the bright red present―how often do you take it? \n
Pallavi Rebbapragada is a journalist and public policy consultant based in Delhi. She started her career at India Today as a features writer and journeyed through Europe, the Middle East and the Far East capturing life and culture in her stories. She then worked with Forbes and Firstpost, at times dipping into the dark depths of the economy of death workers, prison reforms and India's drug crisis. On other days, she interviewed the strongest voices across politics, business and cinema. Her first book, Upon a Bright Red Bench, was assessed at the Yale Writers' Conference in 2014.
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