Tanumaya tiwari

"A Friend"

It is the 15th of April, 2001. Yet another excruciating Indian summer afternoon, even mercury is ready to escape its container. With the brazen summer winds blowing across the deserted streets, Dr. Rashid Khan, a new resident of Gaya(a small town in eastern India in the state of Bihar) is idling in his study trying to endure the soaring temperatures.