Ashram Stories

Jagga is a very bright Chamar (underprivileged) boy of 18. He brutally murders the rapist of his widowed mother and escapes to Delhi to seek shelter. The murder haunts him. And the police are on his heels. While Jagga is walking on the road, an industrialist loses control of his car and hits a tree. He is seriously injured. Jagga takes him to the hospital and saves his life. The rich family feels indebted to him. They provide him lodging and help him join a YOGA Ashram to find direction for his vagrant life. Unhappy and seeking mental peace, Jagga spends a year in the Ashram that provides him physical and spiritual training to salvage his tortured soul. Jagga misses his mother. The police are still hot on his trail. He goes back to the village and whisks his mother away. His mother tells him how a police Inspector brutalized her in his absence, trying to elicit information on Jagga. Jagga keeps giving the police a slip. But he is tortured by the desire to avenge the Inspector. In his struggle between doing the right thing and taking revenge on the Inspector, Jagga faces the final dilemma of his life. What did he choose: the life of a yogi or to commit another murder?

The Snake Pit has won. Red Eye has won the World League, injuring himself in the process, and Valt Aoi has joined the ranks of the masked Bladers. With his Bladers, Red Eye, Brown Eye, and Gold Eye at his side, Ashram rules the Snake Pit with an iron fist. That doesn't leave him much time for the New York Bulls, however. What better solution than to put one of his Bladers in charge? Ashram should have thought twice before giving the team to the double-edged sword that is Shu Kurenai.

Shu's stress level is already through the roof with Lean. But landing in a parallel universe where he had never left the place of his darkest nightmares? Shu isn't sure there is anything worse than that. However, being here means having some time. And Shu swore the Snake Pit wouldn't be standing by the time he was done. Featuring confused masked Bladers, Gold Eye who doesn't want to deal with this, Ashram who somehow still believes he has the upper hand, and Shu who is just trying to make a better future.