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Ordinary life
Preface
This started with the story of a boy, trying to tell the truth. Long back, I read about a teacher who asked the students to write about what they would like to do when they grew up. One of the students wrote that he would like to eat all the rice with yoghurt. At that age, this was his favorite food. So all that he wanted to do was eating rice with yoghurt.
The student was beaten up badly by the teacher. During those days, students never protested against beating by a teacher. So the student fell on the floor, rolled from one side of the room to the other side and finally grabbed the teacher’s feet and begged for mercy. The teacher stopped beating and screamed “Are you pulling a fast one on me? What do you mean by ‘eating rice with yoghurt?’ You rascal! Go through the answers given by the other students. They are all your class mates. Look what they have written. Some said they wanted to be barrister, some said they would be school teachers, some others talked about becoming Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers. Many others have even said that they wanted to serve this nation and donate all their money to the charity. And you???!!!. You want to eat rice with yoghurt? That’s all you want to do when you grow up? What an idiot! What a shame!’
This story of a boy, getting beaten up by the teacher for telling the truth about what he wanted to do, was written by a renowned author from my region (Bengal) in India. His name is Shirshendu Mukhopadhaya. I want to recognize him here, as I find this story like an open heart surgery. It’s an open and shut case. Everything is very clear and loud. It talks about what others want us to do, and it also talks about what we, ourselves want to do. It talks about the reality of life. It talks about the truth of life. It talks about the extraordinary things that happen with our ordinary lives. This is the story of an ordinary life....
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