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Late 1980s. Indian education system usually starts with a grade called LKG (Lower Kindergarten), but this kid’s (to keep it simple – let me use the name ram) started with another one before that PGC (Pregarten class) . He might be around five when his parents sent him to this school; not a boarding school but it’s kind of a betterment to it. Ram is all happy buying stuff for the new school – books, clothes, bed sheets ...etc; everything new, well pressed and covered. Informing everyone about the new school, he never realized that he is going to be away all alone from his parents until that evening when his parents left him in the school’s hostel. Thought he was reluctant to go to the hostel initially he had to surrender to the new people there. Cried, cried and tired he fell asleep in his bed that night. Waking up next morning it occurred to him for a moment that he was still dreaming and that new voice of the hostel caretaker brought him to reality. He began digesting the harsh realit