"RAINBOW AT MIDNIGHT", my debut contemporary literary fiction.

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“Sit down,” said Rashbehari pointing to the chair in front, “Tomorrow you will be ‘gone with the wind’ forever. Let us sit together for the last time and bid farewell to you like ‘Anarkali’,” he added laughing, “have you forgotten the etiquettes of our friendship? Thinking, lest there be prohibition at your Aamir-khana, I have brought a bottle of scotch for the celebrations and you are cordially invited to join as earlier and we will relive the past.”

“ Very far-sighted; being the son of not only an M.L.A. but a Minister too,” said Arif,” I will bring ice and soda, can’t rely upon the servants even; and I don’t want to be exiled even before tasting  Adam’s apple.”

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