One day while writing a story, a fiction writer's protagonist steps out of his notebook and disappears. After devoting a lifetime to the service of his country, Acharya-ji feels like a failure and eventually loses his mind. Akanksha's life is shattered by technology that makes life easier for everyone and completes the world today. Deepti finds the cool shade of love after years of pain and struggle, but not quite. Contemporary, yet sentimental, the stories in this volume tug at the heartstrings and force the reader to sit up and think about the society caught in a flux of changes.