Raj Kaur Kamalpur
“Today, I will not send my daughter to school… Her education would have been spoiled for a day or two.” Sukhi said fearing his wife. “Why don’t you send to school…? The papers came to the head.” asked the wife.
“Actually I heard… there is a wolf running rampant in the city. He ran away from a forest and came here to the city.” The husband told the wife. “Good! This is really a scary thing.” The wife thought for a while and said, “Who knows about the other animal, why should it be harmed.” The husband said again expressing fear. “But till now it is not known where he has reached. Also these animals are afraid of humans. They don’t attack anyone out of hunger without hurrying.” The wife explained to her husband. Hearing this, the husband remained silent, but the wife continued saying, “We need not be afraid of that wild wolf.” Someone will try to catch him. As a human being, I am afraid of the wolves roaming around every day, who roam for the sake of honor from above, but no one knows when they will make a daughter-sister their prey… and take a bite out of her. They are not even recognized. They need to think of a solution.”
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Pension Cycle
Dharam Singh Raiwal
Pension is given to the disabled, elderly and widows by the department under social security. So many papers have to be completed. In these, especially, the corn of Umar is eaten with wheat. A similar incident happened to me. During school hours, an educated baba came to me with a recommendation and said, “Master, you should put your signature on this.” I said, “Okay, sir, let me get your principal on these forms.” Before going to the principal, I asked him for any age certificate to satisfy himself, then he started showing me three types of cards and said, “This is my Aadhaar card, this mine PAN card and this is my health card. Age was written more or less in these three cards. Baba came to me to ‘fix’ his age once again. I asked, “Senior, which of these is your correct age?” He said, “Do whatever you think is right.” I explained, “Senior, all three of your cards have gone to some government department.” are Don’t get stuck in a cycle of pension. Make it so that where you studied in the primary school, get a note from the teacher that he was enrolled in such and such a class in this school and your age is this. Found it and told the recommender that the master did not work. The recommender called again and said, “Master, you have not done my work.” I said to him, “Brother, the elder has three birth dates, tell me which age would be correct. Now he had approached me for the fourth time to get his age fixed. I also have to work. He used to do 420, I started getting trapped in 420 too.
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the window
Jasmine Kaur Sandhu
Param woke up at the same time every morning. The urge to go out into the yard. He loved sipping tea in the open air since his college days. He used to do his daily tasks very easily and he was especially fond of cooking. He did all the small and big tasks of the kitchen with great enthusiasm. From a young age, she loved to cook and along with this she always had a desire to learn something new. In the evening, the sounds of birds gave her a lot of comfort and she used to sit in her favorite place in the house with a calm mind. That place was the window of his room. Param used to see little girls passing through that window every day. Those girls were laughing loudly, doing mischief and giving very cute hugs to Param. She used to get lost in her childhood watching them. She wanted to go to the other side of the window and live like them, but then when the window of her mind would open, she would cover the window with a curtain and then start her work.
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Indifferences
Arshdeep Singh
As there was a marriage in the house, an aunt was hired to work, who used to do other household chores along with making our bread. I was late to come home today because of some work. As soon as I came, I said to mother, “Make bread, I am very hungry because it is late.” Mother went to the kitchen to ask for bread to be made and when she came back she said, “Go get the car.” “What happened now? They would have eaten the bread.” I said angrily. “Your aunt’s husband has met with an accident, he should be brought.” Mother said in a panicked voice. I hurriedly brought the car and sat Aunty and started walking. On reaching, he saw that the leg was robbed due to the dog hitting the motorcycle. He quickly put him in the car and took him to the hospital. The doctor took an X-ray and said that the injury was quite complex, requiring more than one operation. When the doctor told the cost, aunty’s hands were folded in front of the doctor.
We were seeing and hearing about Aunty since childhood. Always busy with work, spoke very lovingly to everyone. There were five girls and one boy in aunty’s house. Aunty had married five daughters by adding money. The two daughters were not happy in their home.
When the doctor was treating her in the hospital, while talking to the aunty, she came to know that the aunty had also married her son three years ago, but due to some reason she too got divorced.
A woman who has earned her rights with such hard work is not seen to fold her hands for money. My mind was full. Even now, when I see the figure of Aunty overwhelmed with the worry of managing so much money, I am reminded of the lyrics of a famous singer’s song, “God’s carelessness, we have not yet understood.”
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Pancakes vs. Pumpkin
Mansha Ram Makar
It was summer days. After taking leave from work, I reached home in the evening and saw that the daughter-in-law was very happy and engaged in conversation. They were drenched with dirt. The fan above was turned off, I thought there would be no electricity, but there was electricity, the refrigerator went off. They were not feeling hot in happiness. Seeing me, my wife started saying that today the sun has risen from the west instead of the east. “What happened?” I asked. She started saying that ‘Kothi Wali Sethani’s boy is getting married, ladies have been invited to come to Sangeet. The box has been given and it has also been said verbally that there will be a function of ladies’ music in the restaurants of Panjah Footi Road on this Saturday for five days, the boy’s marriage has been kept. Both must come. Earlier, he had two marriages and was not invited to any function. Whenever there was a story to be told, an invitation was always given.’ Having said this, they started talking again. They were mounted like a chath. They forgot to ask for bread and water. The pulao was being cooked thoughtfully. I waited for a while, but they did not stop talking, so I said, “Bhagwana, I have eaten bread, I am hungry.” She started saying, “Can’t you have a little patience?” If you are in a hurry, go to the kitchen and eat yourself.
Today was the fifth day happily. On the fifth day, they were deafened by listening to the ladies’ music function of Sethani’s son’s wedding. They did not expect that Sethani would give them a box of sweetmeats and also invite ladies to music in restaurants. Now it seemed as if they had no choice but to prepare to go to the ladies’ music. Even on the sixth day, when he came home from work in the evening, he started giving information about attending the upcoming function, that the daughter-in-law of Hatti Wala has made a new suit from the boutique, Masterni has gone to get ready from the beauty parlour; A lawyer’s short daughter-in-law bought special high-heeled sandals so as not to appear short. Shitu’s mother is just a tall girl, she walks from house to house, she does CID, how are they preparing. The daughter-in-law of the upper family says that I have not even eaten lunch, I have to go to a stall with bad tikkis to fulfill my hobby while going to restaurants. Mother-in-law means my mother says, “I am not fond of anything.” I just want to eat tandoori roti with kadhahi-paneer.” Both were getting ready to go to the restaurant. I said give us some bread and water too, we have to go to Gurdwara Sahib. They started saying, “Pumpkin vegetables are cooked in the cooker and they have made rotis and kept them in a box. Take it out and eat it, we have to get ready.
We went to Gurdwara Sahib before the market, performed Parkarma and offered obeisance. Then they bought vegetables etc. from the market and returned home around ten o’clock at night. A key to the outer gate we took with us in case they were late coming home from the ladies’ music. So we will come and open the door and enter the house. But when they reached the front door of the house, the door was open. When we went inside, we saw that the mother-in-law was eating bread with the pumpkin vegetable she had made for us, and she was enjoying herself by talking about the Kothi Wali Sethani. Akhe said, “Bhukhi Nagi took the omen first and stopped the waiters from coming towards us again with a half-and-half glass of coke.” The aroma of the dishes there whetted our appetite, but the hungry Sethani did not even look at us. Two or three of us clapped our hands a lot, but to no avail. All of us, hungry, got up in unison that we would not go to the pleasures of Sethani again. Ah, we are finding the pumpkin vegetable to be more delicious than the pan-cheese. So they ate our share of pumpkin vegetable without caring about us.
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