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There is a storm outside. Everything that you had learnt of your home is being questioned. Every story that you were told is beginning to have a different ending. The landscapes from your childhood have changed. You were born on roads that were secular. They are now paved with stones, each marked with the name of a different God. There isn't much left to dream about so on sultry winter night, at your childhood home, under the sky full of Christmas stars, you think of marigold farms… This episode of flatline was written by Amrita Sukrity, voiced and artwork by Divya Tak, production by Charu Tak. This is Flatline, and we are sorry for destroying your Christmas. If you are looking for some hope and faith, do read the Ariel Poems especially the Journey of the Magi which is a beautiful poem about seeking the birth of Christ and witnessing the birth of a new religion amid the fragments of older faith. But while you are reading please also read about the Bhagalpur riots of 1989, on which this episode was based, it is quite a relatable story for the times that we live in.