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Voyage of Discovery Have you noticed how when you are sitting in a moving train and the lush green paddy or the golden yellow wheat fields run alongside undulatingly you tend to not notice them after a while. The outside landscape merges into the far bigger landscape of the mind. Thoughts gallop and race each other almost as fast as the train. Past, present and future merge into a delicious haze, you smile and frown by turns as the sad and naughty thoughts race each other. On my last train journey as I was travelling alone, occupying a side berth of a sleeper compartment these jaunts were that much the more easier to indulge in. The train's rhythmic movement lulled me into a state where fact and fiction made for a sometimes terrifying, sometimes fascinating concoction. There came a time when I completely lost sense of time and place and had travelled to those moments in my past when I had been happy or atleast thought had been. Some of the things which had really touched me at the