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The autobiography of a pen

I was a bit astonished. He was restless, wrote with a thud on the paper. I rested panting for breath and my eyes fell on what he wrote: Is baar ghawon ko dekhna hai Gaur se thoda lambe wakt tak Kuch faisley Aur uskey baad hausley kahin toh shuruat karni hee hogi Is baar yahi tay kiya hai Translated, it reads: “This time one will see the wounds Vehemently for a longer time Then decide And gather the encourage To start from somewhere This is what is to be decided this time.” The TV set showed horrifying pictures. Places being attacked, bombs being exploded and gun fires being shot. Blood splashed all over, people terrified, wounded and dead. I saw a man in uniform, his eyes glittering with bravery, heading to rescue the victims. L

Autobiography of an Endangered Species.

The sun will again rise tomorrow, till then I have to wait. My mother is not speaking a word. Some of the elders had gone in search of my father and they have not returned as yet. The whole world is engulfed in darkness. Why did father not come home? The other day when Jikky’s brother did not return home how everyone was tensed. At the end of the day’s search it was discovered that his brother has been hunted down. There is a strange fear in my mind. No sooner did the day break; I set out in search of my father. Unaware of what was awaiting for me in the future with no clue of which direction to take I started from a point. I was aware that mother was also awake the whole night. If it would have been some other day she would have stopped me from going out alone at such an early hour. Today she pretended to unnoticed me, just to combat with her perturbed anxiety. No sooner did I start my search I heard a whispering and a very cautious trumpet. I recognised that it wa