Book Description
Over the years, Sudha Murty has come across some fascinating people whose lives make for interesting stories and have an astonishing lesion to reveal. Take Vishnu, who achieve every material success bt never knows happiness; or Venkat, who talk so much that he has no time to listen. In other stories, a young girl goes on a train journey that changes her life forever; an impoverished village woman provides bathing water to hundreds of people in a drought-stricken area;a do-gooder ghost decides to teach a disconsolate young man Sanskrit; and in the title story, a woman in a flooded village in Odisha teaches the author a life lesson she will never forget.