Contents

1. The Painful Truth

2. Last Wish

3. Ghost Town

4. The Golden Egg

5. Moment of Grief

6. Cocktail

7. Mukhia Mendez

8. For the Love of Munni

9. Love at First Sight

10. Chatti

11. The Custard Apple’s Seed

12. Pin Code 829208

13. The Peacock’s Feet

14. The Thought That Breaks the Heart

15. The Dirt Road

16. By the Lantern Light

17. MLA Brown Sahib

18. Black Rose

19. Open Eyes

20. The Womb of the Earth

21. Mary, Ram Sevak and Others

22. MCC

23. Love-in-the-Mist and the Devil-in-the-Bush

24. A Separate State of Jharkhand

25. Kanke

26. Planning

27. A Comic Interlude Amid Gathering Clouds

28. In the Cool Autumn Days

29. Prelude and Build Up

30. Third November

31. Ranchi March

32. At a Dead End

33. Pall of Gloom

34. A Broad Smile

35. In One’s Own Country, a Celebration

36. Ma Ganga

37. Robin and His Innovations

38. Enter Mr Rozario

39. Ordained by Destiny

40. Birsa

Postscript

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