NOBODY LIGHTS A CANDLE Anjali Deshpande 40 “I saw my car on the way, under those trees. I saw it only because a train passed by and picket it up in its headlights. I don’t know whether villagers go to sleep early or just shut themselves inside their houses soon. It could also have been because of Holi. All was eerily quiet. There are so many trees there. No dearth of any shadow. I kept to the shadows. I had just reached the gate when what do I see, but two men getting out, in dhotis. Must have been villagers.