In 1947 when the maps of India and Pakistan were being drawn| an oversight ensured that the village of Paglapur didn't find a place in either country. The village had the distinction of housing the largest mental asylum in the region and in the mêlée that ensued during partition| the asylum inmates broke loose| drove away the villagers and established their own republic in Paglapur. And that's how it stayed for the next 60 years! While the world outside changed| Paglapur remained isolated| with no electricity| television or sanity. Now| decades after the world forgot this village| a NASA scientist of Indian origin| Agastya and his beautiful wife find themselves on the road to Paglapur. Agastya is working on a top secret project for creating a device to communicate with aliens. So why is he in a village whose colorful inhabitants include a man who speaks in gibberish| another who thinks he is a lamp post and everyone else who think Mahatma Gandhi is still around...[indent][/indent]