Saturday, February 26, 2011

Reality!!!

Sundar was bored, lying in the hospital bed for a week. Vishal and Sudha entered the room with the doctor. They had good news for Sundar, he would be relieved from the hospital that evening. The doctor advised him that just because he was going home, didn’t mean he could do anything. He had to listen to Vishal and Sudha, he needed atleast a month to recover from the illness.

The couple took care of Sundar like their own. They, spend most of the time in that month, taking care of Sundar. Once in a while, tears filled up his eyes. He wished, if only he had kids of his own, he wouldn’t have had this situation in life. He was so grateful to them.

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A month passed, Sundar was allowed to take walks twice a day. The early morning walk was something he was waiting for. He reached the park, his friends were waiting for him. He was totally fit. His friends were happy to see him healthy.

Sundar declared “Only becasue Vishal saab and Sudha bibiji took care of me so well, I am in this condition”.

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At home, Vishal was talking to Sudha “Sundar, had taken care of me since my birth. If only, I could tell him, I am his son, his blood”

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Revenge

Bali placed the cube in the warehouse. The cube was so heavy, but he couldn’t complain. It was his job to provide for his family. Every day, he had to go to the place where the huge cubes were, pick up as many cubes possible. He worked in a organized company, they were very strict. He couldn’t jump queues, nor could he overtake, he had to do his work in the time allotted to him, in the sequence he was assigned to.

The work gave his family the security in terms of basic needs, but there was a lot of risk. Everyday his wife, Kyra was worried, if Bali would come back home alive. The path he went on everyday, had lot of dangers. There were huge structures there, one wrong step could be the last one for him. She used to work with him before they had the kids. Now she had to wait until the kids could fend for themselves to help her husband.

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Suri, Bali’s collegue came to Bali’s wife with a sad face. She had one look at the face and understood. Teary eyed, she mustered some courage and asked him “How?”

Suri said “we were at the garden”, there was nobody at the tea table, there were lot of sugar cubes. Bali was so happy, he mentioned that today would be an important day”
“as we took the cube and started back to the warehouse, a kid screamed looking at the train of ants. His mommy just got a mug of water and poured it on us”

She couldn’t hold her tears anymore. Suri tried to console her. “We are sorry, the impact of water was so hard, we couldn’t save Bali”

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Two days later, Kyra was in the house where Bali was murdered. She found the mother and bit her on the eye. The lady started screaming. She caught hold of Kyra, and mashed her up. Just before that, Kyra was shouting “Bali dear, I punished your murderer”. The lady threw the dead Kyra in the dustbin. She walked out of the room muttering “Too many ants in this house”

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Super powers

Nikhil was supposed to go to his friend’s house, to collect something. Since he had to walk alone for half an hour, he could use his super powers. He would just get his spider powers out and jump from tree to tree or building to building. He would still take the same time, he would if he had walked. It gave him a sense of satisfaction though.

Another day, when he had to walk alone a lonely road, no buildings, no trees, he was disappointed. He decided to try something new. He got out his boat, and started rowing. He had the long oar, so that he could do the rowing both the sides. He loved his new discovery.

One day, Nikhil’s mom asked him to accompany her to the tailor shop. He never liked going with others, he loved his solitary walks. He couldn’t refuse his mom, and went with her. Mom was surprised to see Nikhil not chatting with her, instead, she saw him rowing a boat, or his spiderman actions.

That night she told this incident to her husband. He calmed her down saying “10 year old kids live in such imaginary worlds.. Let him come out of it, when he wants to… Let him enjoy his ‘Super Powers’”

He then turned to Nikhil and winked at him.