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Kaji Christopher Biswas
We, humans have three basic needs food, clothing and shelter to live.As a reporter, I have to travel many places and eat local foods if nothing is available.Sometimes, I had to avoid certain types of foods not because of my religion but due to some of my lifelong constraints for that I chose not to eat them. Once I was returning after covering an incident, I saw some people are shouting at someone and beating him up! I rushed there and asked what happened and why they are beating the man?Some of them angrily looked at me and replied why wouldn't they? That man in front of me ate food everyday from local temples, mosques and churches hiding his religious identity! People didn't notice him at first cause noone except him goes to every religious places!I as a reporter got a feeling of an interesting story so I pulled out my reporter card and told them, I would look after the matter. Some of them knew me before,I assured them to reslove the matter and gave them some money for their tea biscuit.They handed him to me after that and before leaving they threatened the man if they saw him again, noone would let him go this easily! Now, I finally saw the man carefully. The man was barely standing, his face was swollen due to beating, short stature still he smiled at me and thanked...