BLACK DOG KALIYA

It was a small village in North India, where there was a school for kids. This school was quiet different from other schools, it took evening classes at 5pm to 9pm.The school was at the edge of the village where a dense forest lay 100 meters ahead. The village was so small that all the houses lay in sq km.

There was a small boy who went to the evening school. Like other kids Ramu often forgot books, Tiffin box etc in the school. But quiet more often.

Like every evening Ramu went to the school and was returning when he met a jet black dog. He was very happy to see the dog. Ramu and his friend played with the dog and had fun and left to their houses. Ramu couldn’t sleep whole night, he wanted to see the dog and play with it.

Next morning he woke up early, took bath and had his breakfast and left to see “Kaliya”, this is what he had decided to call the dog. Whenever Ramu met Kaliya Ramu was always happy, but never saw ‘kaliya’ waving its tail at Ramu. Ramu always wondered why Kaliya behaved like that. But that didn’t draw a line between the emotions of Ramu and the dog ‘Kaliya’.

After attending his class Ramu went to see Kaliya. He saw Kaliya with another boy. Ramu felt quite jealous to see kaliya with another boy. Ramu asked the boy to leave kaliya alone for him. The boy refused and hugged ‘kaliya’ deeper into his chest. Ramu became so furious that he started beating the boy. Some people nearby tore the two boys apart and made them quiet and asked them to leave. Ramu became silent, but to his amazement he couldn’t see kaliya. He started crying; he searched and searched but couldn’t get to see kaliya. He didn’t have food whole night and didn’t sleep.

Early morning Ramu got ready, ate his breakfast and took some roti along to feed ‘Kaliya’. He found ‘Kaliya’ being fed by the same boy with whom Ramu had a fight last night. But keeping in his mind what his parents had told him last night about the fight he had. His blood boiled, but didn’t utter a single word but rather went near the boy and said hello to him. The boy wondered but didn’t react much and said hello coldly. Ramu politely asked the boy his name. The boy replied Mohan. Mohan had given ‘Kaliya’ lots of bones and meat that too freshly chopped. Ramu opened his box of rotis and kept in front of ‘Kaliya’. Kaliya didn’t even look at the roti. Ramu couldn’t see into the eyes of Mohan. Ramu couldn’t see this happen, he pushed his box of roti in front of ‘Kaliya’ and threw the box of meat away. Mohan was stunned; he didn’t dare move a muscle, until ‘Kaliya’ opened his mouth for the first time in front of Ramu to bark. Kaliya barked at Ramu and ran for the box of meat. Mohan gave a very cunning smile to Ramu. Ramu felt humiliated and left. Kaliya was eating once again with more greed.

Ramu thought of doing something to Mohan, and made a perfect plan, which he thought ‘nobody can ruin’. And slept comfortably to wake up quickly so that his plan gets executed with ease.

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It was 12’O clock when Ramu woke and lit the lamp.

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It was 2’o clock when Ramu slept and put off the brightly lit lamp.

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It was 4’o clock when people were screaming outside Ramu’s house. Ramu felt a very hard slap on his face and heard his mother asking him what he had done last night. Ramu first didn’t understand at first and asked his mother to repeat. She repeated but with more number of slaps on the cheeks of Ramu. Ramu cried out of pain. He asked his mother what he had done that she was beating him so badly. But before she could answer him some people started banging their doors. She was already scared but now she was looking much worse.







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