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THUD THUD
THUD !!!!! banging and barging came a
group of beasts, bearing Kalashnikovs and AK-47 . It was a small single bedroom
house with a larger backyard. The walls were laden with several cracks, some of
them so deep that, even the slightest disturbance would make them to crumble.
The air had an imbibed smell of gunfire and smoke. Long away somewhere, the sound of a rocket
swishing was faintly but frequently heard. Sometimes the sound gained
intensity, showing the proximity of the weapon fired. The big burly beast like
men stomped all over the house searching for its inhabitants. Having searched
the small place thoroughly, two men went to the backyard. They grew impatient
by the second and one of them spotted an almost out of sight tiny building
nearby. It looked somewhat like a small shed. Breaking in by firing at the
latch, they were lecherously happy to find a women furtively hiding behind an
old abandoned Plymouth. They looked upon each other gloating. One of them took
few long strides and grabbed the woman by her long pony. She wailed helplessly
knowing well, what she is about to experience in a few minutes. She joined
hands to the one above praying all off this to be just a bad dream that she can
wake out of. She was desperately waiting for help that she very well knew would
never come. She was dragged out from the shed and into the house. She was
thrashed, battered, bad-mouthed and what not. The men were ecstatic. Thad
just got their prized catch. They immediately started feasting on her.
From behind
a rusted empty oil barrel peeped out a pair of eyeballs filled with fear and
tears. The tiny figure sat with his legs
folded up to the chest and hands tightly wound around the knees. His hair was
short and shabby. His cheeks were moist from several tears wiped and still
pouring out endlessly. He was petrified to move even an inch. He could clearly
hear his Mother shrieking and weeping her throat out. He was a small little 5th
grader just whimpering helpless without the slightest of clue. He remembered
just one thing what is mother said finally “ Sit tight and hide, God will Help”
He obeyed her and waited in the same
place for more than 2 hours….
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Dear God,
Ammu ma
has told me that you are the protector of the whole earth. She told that you
live high up in the sky and you can see everything. We also have lot of photos
of you in our house. Yesterday many bad men beat Ammu ma very badly. Ammu ma
was crying continuously. It would have caused her lot of pain and I too was
very afraid. Ammu ma taught me that beating others is a bad habit and that you
will punish the ones who beat. Yesterday when they beat Ammu ma you never came
and punished them. Krishna Uncle says you will punish them soon. Krishna Uncle lives
in our street and is very nice uncle. He took me to his home from the shed
yesterday. The men who beat Ammu ma were not there when Uncle came. I was very
very hungry and Janani aunty gave me chappathi and Dal to eat. Both Aarthi akka
and Parvathi Akka are also very nice and they played with me.. Uncle is now
taking me in a big boat to live in another place called India. Aunty and Akka
are also coming with us. He tells that our country is not safe now. I don’t
know what happened to my home and school and park. There are many bad men with
guns, in jeeps and there is always fire and broken buildings everywhere. I
don’t know why all are running are crying in the streets. They are all getting beatings like Ammu ma I
think. I dint go to school also for a long time. I don’t know what happened to
my friend Sharan and Mythili ma’am in school. I don’t see them at all. Arjuna appa went to shop last week to buy me
chocolate and he did not come back at all. Krishna uncle says that both Ammu ma
and Appa are with you. God, I love them both so much and I miss them a lot. I
want to play with Appa. I want Ammu ma to feed me while playing and want to hear
her song before sleeping. They also Love me so much God. I think you don’t know
about all this. So I am writing you this Letter to tell you. I want to be with
them in our home. I want to go to school and play in park in the evening after
school. Please give them back to me. I am very sorry if have done any wrong. I
will be a good boy from now and will never give trouble to them. I am feeling
very sad without them. Please give them to me....
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2015 March 1st
Fri 08:45PM
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2015 March 1st
Fri 08:45PM
The room was brightly lit
and extremely well air-conditioned. "Apppppaaaaa", a shrieking voice
completely filled with energy and excitement stormed into the room, banging
open the door, in the form of a young eight year old. She came in running, and
with a single leap, hugged on to her dad, who was seated on the cot
beside an old metal suitcase, with an old letter in one hand and his lovely
daughter tightly held on the other. The lovely voice slowly whispered,
"Appa, Where is God? Y cant I see him at all?". Tears welled
from his eyes, but there was no fear anymore. He gently kissed his daughter,
his whole life came before him in a flash and still smiling with tears he said
"God lives high up in the skies, Ammu. No one can see him, but he can see
us all"
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