Shon Mehta

You did good, you did good again. But then, you did bad, and suddenly you were never any good." ―  Shon Mehta,  Stories of Jivavarta The way to repair a bad reputation is to keep doing actions that prove otherwise.

"Is that Limping Nibhrant? No, that can't be!" Kuhana looked at the man standing in front of him. In the dim light of the lantern, he could see the face, and the wide smile. The resemblance was uncanny. But then, no one from the town of Dumadhya could even dream of the clothes and ornaments the man was wearing -- least of all the dirt poor Nibhrant he remembered from his childhood. "Yes, I am Nibhrant," replied Nibhrant, with another wide smile. "But nobody calles me 'Limping Nibhrant' anymore. Alayas, the famous surgeon, has cured me of my limp." "Good for you!" said Kuhana, welcoming Nibhrant into his house. "Come in now, my old friend." "Meet my childhood friend," Kuhana told his children, as they greeted Nibhrant. "He used to stay in a small hut next to our farm, and his parents used to work for us." But the children were not listening to Kuhana. They were busy staring at Nibhrant's ...