From campus corridors to protest streets

Torn between exams and expectations, Shree discovers a new sense of purpose when he joins a generation rising against corruption.

As perplexed as his cohorts across the country, Shree, reluctantly and halfheartedly, dragged himself to the gates of his college every day. Back in the village, many of his childhood friends had already left for the Gulf, and others for Europe and Australia. A son was all his parents had, and they would not send the apple of their eyes to some distant, alien lands.