Disclaimer: The characters Socrates and Plato in my previous posts have nothing to do with the original Socrates and Plato who existed some time back on this planet. My characters are indeed purely fictional and the resemblance of their names with those of the real philosophers is purely coincidental. Additionally, everything that I ascribe to these two characters was not necessarily a view held by the real Socrates or the real Plato. I had to put in this disclaimer since many readers came back to tell me that Socrates didn't really say this or do that. They also said that he never ate curry in his lifetime. I also learnt that there were no washing machines in that era. Too bad.