Raj Purohit, 49, a lower division clerk working with Indian Railways, doesn't give a strong impression as he walks into the Railway Booking Office. A non-descript, regular sort of man, he quickly settles down in his chair. But according to his friends and colleagus, Raj is an undiscovered genius, a scholar and an intellectual on par with leading economist and Nobel Prize winner, Amartya Sen, who has recently published his first book on philosophy - The Idea of Justice, wherein the famed economist laments the lack of justice and fairness in our cruel world. Whenever he gets too emotional watching a tearjerker movie or some atrociously stupid saas-bahu-damad-nanad-bhabhi-jethani-devar-devrani soap, Purohit tends to get a bit philosophical and makes pithy, philosophic remarks, his friends say. Sometimes during tea breaks at his desk in the Railway Booking Office, he gets into a sombre mood and offers his pearls of wisdom to anyone who would care to listen to him.
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