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THE CURSE

Written by SHANKAR BHAT

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Aptly named "THE CURSE", Shivananda suffers all his life after being cursed by a grief-stricken mother that he will never find peace for the harm he had inflicted on her family. Although in the garb of a Swamiji he wanders all over the country, trying to guide youngsters, it is only after a chance encounter with his daughter, born out of a wedlock, that he realizes he has never worked or earned money to be independent and has always stretched out his hand to beg for alms transformed by her bitter acrid comment he starts working, earns a lot of money which he uses for acts of social transformation in his community. This activity extends as he reaches the Himalayas to find his original Guru and here he finds some solace from the work at last, before he breathes his last in those surroundings. The loneliness of his life is finally absolved with the service to mankind.

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