And there ends, for another year, the brief escape from reality, the hijras' day in the sun.

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But not all gamers are happy to see the ads in a space widely thought to be an escape from reality.

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It is an escape from reality.

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The recession has turned hours of commuting to and from work into a reality that's hard to escape.

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