Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Whimpers in the next room!

They were seven of them sharing the room next to us with separate entry were all Bengali Muslims in the age range 45-50 ,hailing from rural Bengal . They used to sell and repair umbrella door to door. We were born and grew up before them Criminals had asked them to vacate the room. So they entered their place. And started hitting them all with thick wooden sticks had failed to meet the dead line. It was around 2pm in the night that they started vacating their house of belongings which was the part of the homestead for decades .They started piling up on the side walk panicky fearful and sad with tears blurring their vision. And anger at their helplessness .It is the heart of city of Kolkata ruled by much touted progressive communists.We all - members of the family woke up because of cries and wimpers feely terribly sad and scared. My mother cursed " why God doesn't punish them?" from her bed where she was lying. You cant even imagine going to police surely cent percent you'd loose one or more of your dear ones or disabled for life or receiving grievous injuries and then you'd see the goons making fun of you!

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