The twelve short stories in this collection reflect the changes taking place in a modern world of growing economic, social and political competition, tension and violence leading to a deterioration of moral and cultural values engendering in turn confusion, division, alienation and paranoia. People have changed with the world unwittingly, from thoughtfulness to callousness, from kindness to indifference, from simplicity to complexity. As the title has it, those are “things we forgot”. In this state of affairs, there are faults on all sides: you can’t just blame the state or the pleb. The author challenges state power through the common device of questions asked by unhinged characters. He makes his case with powerful narratives offering intellectual queries and arresting conjectures, and probes the motivations of characters with empathy and zest.