Uday Learns to Write

I had enough time to reach the theatre in time.   So, I was not in a hurry.   I was able to reach the theatre in an hour before.   The Matinee Show was at 4 o’clock!   Since I didn’t reserve the ticket in advance, I picked up the pace of my footsteps after seeing a huge crowd in front of the theatre.   But to my surprise, there was no crowd at the ticket counter.   I was very happy about not being to follow a long queue.   There were only two persons in front of me.   I was waiting for my turn.   They were asking the man at the counter about something.   I overheard that it was ‘House-full’.   Oh! I was very disappointed.   I thought that either I should have reserved the ticket or come earlier.   I know it was Saturday but I didn’t expect that much crowd for that film. There were some persons selling the tickets in black.   Some people who seemed to be rich in their clothes bought the tickets without a word.   ...

The water sprinkles on my face which compelled me to open my eyes.   I think it is my mother who used to sprinkle water on our face to wake us up when we sleep beyond the dawn.   But I’m wrong; it is sprinkling through the window.   I force myself to get up to close the window. I stand up with my eyes are still closed and go near to the window.   Before I try to close it, it closes itself very fast. It is blowing very cool and fast. I see it is raining heavily outside while the Meteorological Department is announcing over the radio that there is low pressure on the Bay of Bengal and it’s going to be raining for the next 48 hours.   With no intention to sleep again, I roll up the mat.   As the time passes the water starts to hide the road.   And it is eating away the road and mounting up sand surface that it brings from somewhere else.   It has been raining since the midnight without a pause.    The level of water flow is increasing grad...

The morning dawns with the voice of Cock.  The Cuckoo sings especially for you with a unique tone.  Sparrow jumps here and there to seek a place to build its nest.  Crows arrives one by one to have their share of breakfast on the wall.  Squirrel comes down from the coconut tree and goes up after picking up a guava.  These are the things I used to enjoy watching. I used to start my days with an immense pleasure and a hope of living in a paradise.  Now there is no place around my house where I can find my friends.  Yes, there are all gone without a trace. The house near to mine had coconut trees lined up.  Now the trees are cut down to build apartments, a modern abode of man. Sparrow is one of the species that I even don’t remember when I saw it last.  There was one sparrow which had built its nest on the plant in my house cannot be seen a few years back.  And the tigers which are being counted to check whether there is any increase in n...