Dehradun, Jan. 19 -- Ambika Singh.

By: Ganesh Saili

This piece does not require a disclaimer for the simple reason that all the dramatis personae have moved on to the happy hunting grounds. That is, except for the scribbler, they are all gone.

'He's got strontium in his veins! Steel in the liver, a nuclear reactor for a heart, and a diabolical brain that is always up to no good!' whispered one local to the other about Anand Prakash.

In the 1940s, after boarding up shop and home in Landour, the family moved for the winter into a rented house in the relatively warmer climes of Rajpur. A petty dispute over the tethering of buffalo in the grounds outside the ground floor spun hopelessly out of control. When the cordite fumes lifted, two p...