SAM

The children will enter while clapping loudly. They will sit in a circle and two of them will come and stand in the middle. 1st kid: Jaanwaro ki hoti nahi humari jaisi bhasha Par karna chahte hai woe k chhoti si asha Aao hum inki bhasha ban jaate hai Kyu hain ye pareshan aj tumko batlate hain 2nd kid: Dekhe hain humne kai janwar aise Khatarnak bhaalu aur sher jaise Jab hum rahene lagenge inko gharo me To ye batao ye jayengein kahan pe [The kids go n sit in the circle. Two other kids come in the middle] 3rd kid: (cutting an imaginary tree) 4th kid: Arey ye kya kar rahe ho? 3rd kid: Dikhta nahi? Main pedo ko kaat raha hu. Is jungle ko khatam kar ke isko ek kula maidan bana raha hu. 4th kid: Magar aisa kaam tum kyu kar rahe ho? Agar in pedo ko kaat doge to ye chidiyan kahan apna ghonsla banayengi? Ye apne aur apne bacho ke liye kahan se khaana layengin? 3rd kid: Uffo! Chidiyon ko bolo kahin aur ja ke ghonsla banaye. Kisi aur jagah se khana le kar aayein. 4th kid: Aur wo janwar, unka kya?

She did not know where she was going but still she kept walking in the unknown city where a thousand strangers were roaming around her. She was not afraid of those strangers, she was afraid of the people she already know. Though Shilz was a small hill station, still she knew that no one from her family would ever come to this corner of the country to search for her. She was fed up of her life where the bickering of her elder brothers and father left her no other option than running away from home. She somehow knew that had her mother been alive today she would have been living a peaceful life. But even the thought of her mother would bring tears to her eyes because she herself was the reason her mother died. If she would have listened to her mother and would not have been near that lake she would never have slipped and her mother would never have rescued her only to drown herself. Her father always blamed her for killing his wife and her elder brothers were never supportive after the

She was walking from one shop to another never buying anything when she saw this mirror. She had seen this face every day from the past 27 years now, but there was something mystical. She was not the prettiest girl in town still she knew she was beautiful. But in this mirror all she could see was a sad face with brown depressive eyes. Why didn’t she notice this earlier? Was she sad? Was she depressed? And why would she be sad anyway? The questions were flooding her mind and she stood still trying to decipher the answer to at least any one of them. It was a long time since she thought about her own life. All she did was to please her parents, relatives, friends… but what about her own self? When was the last time she bought something for herself? When did she laugh or cry for herself? She kept looking at the mirror when she felt someone staring at her. She turned to see an old lady smiling. She said. “I discovered this mirror very late in my life. You are very lucky to discover it so ea