Uday Learns to Write

I was sitting just next to her.  She rolled her eye balls around the room before looked at me.  Suddenly she kept her sight at the file she’d brought.  She opened that file and took some of the papers out and looked from top to bottom.  She was wearing a yellow coloured salwaar. She seems to be taller even without the heels.  She kept her right leg on her left and placed the file on her lap.  We were two of the about ten people in that room looking at each other without uttering a word.  Then one of them started speaking to the near one.  And others followed suit.  I kept my mouth shut so as she. Then, a lady came and announced some of the names.  The names were included mine as well.  I was expecting her name to be called next.  But her name wasn’t called.  I was disappointed and followed the lady as she asked us.  We were arranged each a seat with computer in front of us and asked to write some test.   I...

T he trains was full-packed with people have no space even to breath.   I was in the middle of the crowd ensuring my space was not occupied.   We saw each other at the same time. He smiled and so did I.   But I couldn’t open any conversation with him as I was on the phone talking to someone else. As the train was moving fast, I lost the network connection and the call.   I opened the conversation first. ‘Hi, how are you?’ ‘Fine, how about you?’, he asked. ‘Fine’ ‘Where are you working now?’ ‘I’m working in **********’(I'm not working for any secret agent, just for privacy) ‘He couldn’t find anyone suitable after you’d left the job’, He said. ‘Oh!’, I said………… But who?, I was so confused to whom I was talking to . I d id remember his face. But I ha d no clue who he was and the one, he was talking about. He continued. ‘He hired a girl. but she was not so competent as he’d expected’ I was clueless. He must be talking about someone I knew, but my mind was sea...

It was a hot morning in the mid summer.   I was just relaxing after finishing my regular exercises.   With the newspapers lying on the table near by the chair, I was staring at the Clock eating the time gradually.   Being not so interested in reading newspaper, my mind was blank. Then I heard some sound that I was so used to before and didn’t hear for some time ago.   I moved my eyeballs towards the place where I heard it.   I couldn’t believe my eyes.   There were not just one or two but about five sparrows standing on the floor and eating some coconut left unused. I was happy to see them again after a long time.   They were disappeared for the reason.   There are no trees in my area.   All were cut and built apartments.   It seems we were getting away from the real nature.   Then the sparrows flew away. Again the crows came, who were already still wandering around my house. I believe there’s hope somewhere so near!...

It is a ten storey building, where I work now.  My office is situated on the 7th floor. On that day, I reached the office earlier than I'd expected. Since the building has the lift, I need not to follow the steps and can reach the 7th floor in a minute.  But, I thought to slow down my pace.  I was the only person in the lift.  So, I decided to click the 4th floor as well.  It would stop on the 4th floor and reach the 7th floor a bit slowly. The lift was moving up and reached the 4th floor in seconds.  The lift stopped and opened slowly.  Right opposite to the lift, I could see an another office with a glass-walled door, where a female receptionist was sitting.  At the second, when the lift door opened, both of us happened to look at each other at the same time. I don't know whether she was disappointed or not, but I was so disappointed.  Though I didn't expect anything, I would have been very happy, if she looked beautiful. ...

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...