Akash was crushed when his long-time girlfriend, Kadambini jilted him. She left him without giving any reason and didn’t bother to tell him in person. Through her email he learnt that she was marrying a NRI and moving with him to the States. Shattered, he thought of ending his life but somehow held back. The example of his parents, whose married life went through daily upheavals, ironically became a source of inspiration. His mother, an ambitious woman, was a top ranking bureaucrat in the government while his father, also a bureaucrat, had stagnated in the service due to his laidback attitude. Anyway, the man didn’t care much for the promotions and had a passion for painting and wanted to pursue it as a vocation but his parents forced him to join the civil services. Ambition or the lack of it was the cause of marital discord in his parents’ life.…