Chapter 8 - Friendly MeetingsDo you know why they hate strangers so much?” asked Raunak to Amit. Amit was blank, he leaned his head leftwards and twisted his lips, asking the question ‘why?’ through those gestures. “Once our village was as stranger friendly as one can imagine. However, once a group of tourists, from the cities came to stay here for a while and …..” “And what?” “And they were discovered to be terrorists. They burned the village, destroyed many lives. After that this rapidly developing village turned into the poorest and the most underdeveloped village in the world.” “In the world! Maybe that was a bit too much. After all, you’re from this village only!” Despite saying that Amit kind of realised what was going on. He realised that how much wrong had happened to the vil

