Kite Flying I have always believed in justice. But, poetic justice had always been a thing synonymous to an illusion for me. Whenever someone talked of poetic justice, I had always put it at par with poetry — a thing which is good to listen to and talk about, but which never becomes reality. This had continued to be my perception until I met Shahid Qadri. Shahid came across as an affable person in his mid forties when I met him sometime in the year 2004 in Ahmedabad, the most

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