Pariah-The Afterthought is a book of two volumes, with five stories each in them. This is the second and last volume of the series, with stories set in cities and townships of India, of those as ordinary as you and I.Each one of the protagonists in these stories chose a path that was of their own doing. Sometimes it worked in their favour. At other times, it backfired badly. The bottom line was that they all had to bear the brunt of the action taken.