Shon Mehta

The cave was not an ending; it was a pause for perspective. Three men were escorting an elderly scholar to another town. The road was through a deep jungle. When they were in the middle of the jungle, the weather changed suddenly and a storm descended on them. They took shelter in a cave. They waited and waited. The storm lasted for three days. When the weather came back to the normal, one man from the group got up and went to check the condition outside. After sometime, he came back. "What did you see?" asked the elderly scholar of the group. "The storm has passed, but it has done heavy damage. The bridge on the river, which we have to cross to go to next town, has broken. We can't proceed," replied the man. A second man got up. “Let me check again if we can go back to our hometown." Saying this the second man left the cave. After a while, he came back, dejected. “No, we can't go back. A giant tree has fallen in our...