I don't remember much of what I studied in school, but there are several incidents that are unforgettable. One such incident is the first family trip by train from Trivandrum to Nagercoil, the ancestral town of my father in the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border district of Kanyakumari. The shuttle train was early in the morning, and we arrived sufficiently early at the railway station. Our train was stationed on the third platform. Instead of taking the bridge to reach the third platform, we climbed on t...

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