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The Unspoken Truth
It's the year 1960 in Goa and Caitan lays still on his bed. Nobody knows what really happened to him. From a well built man in his youth to a corpse like man in his early 40s, not even his family understood the reason for this condition. For a long time he worked as a baker on the ship at sea, but when he returned back home few years ago, he was a changed man. A man who was once full of life had now turned into a shadow of his former self, with weary eyes and a soul weighed down by the burdens of time and circumstance.

The family did everything to help him get better, but all was futile. They became frustrated overtime and eventually, stopped taking care of him. One late evening, Caitan suddenly woke up and started crying out loudly. He informed his son to call over the family of Paulo quickly.

The son did just that and as soon as Paulo's family reached Caitan's room, he started sobbing deeply and poured out his heart in telling all about an incident that was embedded deep within him. All who were present were shocked and angered as he narrated the incident and the time felt like it had stopped. Once he had finished narrating, he breathed his last as death greeted him and he closed his eyes forever.

The Backstory: Caitan was a tall and muscular man with a determination to achieve something great in life and what better than to have someone who shares the same determination as he? To compliment this nature, he had a true and a loyal friend called Paulo. Paulo and Caitan were good friends since childhood and having been brought up in the...