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Unusual Retreat

A month long journey which bent, changed and destroyed many of my perspectives towards social justice, inequality and life. I was on a scholarship by Spic Macay. It was one of the toughest journeys I have been on, so far, both from outside and the inside.  Sleeping in the park, bathing on footpath and drinking tanker water taught me the value of small luxuries of life, and I was not alone, there were 200 more people. It gave me strength. Little luxuries of life which we generally ignore like a toilet.  It was also a time when I made precious personal relationships with people so devoted to a change like Aruna Roy, Nikhil dey,  Shankar singh, Naurti Bai, Kavita Shrivastava and Gurpreet ji. Meanwhile Shankar Singh became Sankar mama and Aruna Roy became Aruna Nani and Kishan Singh became Kisan Kaka.  I met different brilliant people from all walks of life working towards a strong collective cause, most of them were the people who left high paying high power jobs and devoted their li