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The railway station from where I embarked my first train is now defunct. Cochin (today Kochi) Harbour Terminus. It was 21 June 1975, just four days prior to the declaration of Emergency in India by Indira Gandhi. I was 15 years old and had just completed my schooling. I was part of a large contingent of equally young boys who were being taken to Don Bosco’s school and seminary at a place called Tirupattur in Tamil Nadu. We were all aspirants of priesthood. There was a year-l...
