And now after reviews and views, it’s time for some purview! Lost and found my phone in the bustling city of Mumbai which shows that honesty is still alive in humans. This incident reminds me of a story that my friend told me that happened on hills in a chaiwallah cum restaurant shop of kumaon region. In his words,”On a cold frosty morning;
A friend: Mahesh da, adhrakh waali chai bana do 4(make 4 ginger cups tea).
Mahesh da: bas ready hain sir!(its almost ready)
Costing 4 rupees per cup, it was one of the tastiest and a good bargain tea that one can ask for.
Mahesh da shop is popular there and with a wife and a 6 year old cute son (deepu) a happy ideal family indeed.
Whenever we visit that shop, deepu would sit with us, play with all the confectionery items that his father shop hold and as k us questions from movies to geography!
And then suddenly one day he came to us and say,” I want a clean shaven head”!(clean shaven head in the region is mainly associated with mundan and barpan(for happier times) and with death of some family member in mourning. “Please ask my dad, he is not listening to me”. On enquiring with Mahesh da we all reject it as one night fancy or ghazni effect (popular movie that time) that affect the child heart! He cried, insist, argue and with his sudden develop fancy finally Mahesh da succumbs to it and one day lo! Our deepu has developed a no hair skull!
What followed next was deepu has become brand ambassador of ” ganju patel,teri khopdi mein tel” song to make fun of shaven head! Now six year deepu studies in a good school of that town and with shaven head, red sweater of school uniform and that yellow bag with ben 10 cartoon pic inscribed on it, he looks cute at best, And then on one usual evening after finishing the classes, the friends again goes to sit there to have maggi and chai and a car stops in front of Mahesh da shop! A lady, a man and a shaven boy wearing similar uniform to deepu steps down and looks for deepu!..Mahesh Da thought probably deepu has done something wrong (fight or so) in school and then with the anger in his voice goes inside his home (behind the shop) and shouting “deepu deepu” angrily. Deepu sheepishly came out from the room and Mahesh da almost dragged him to the front of his shop and speaks,” sorry behenji, for whatever he has done”
Lady: you are his father!
Mahesh da: yes. I know he has done something wrong.
Lady: meet my husband. Namaste exchanged. And my son rohan.deepu and rohan are classmates.
Mahesh da: So deepu has picked up fight or something.
The friend group was there listening to every word carefully whether with shaven head deepu thought himself like aamir of ghazni and beating his friends in school!
Lady,” No no, in fact you must be proud of your son!
Mahesh da (now little surprised),” what has he done”?
Lady,” My son has been suffering from leukaemia. And his treatment is still going on. Due to this he has a shaven head. But due to fear of being everyone fun and stingy remarks about his shaven head, my son feared to go to school again. Then deepu consoled him and promised him that he would shave his head too so that whatever remarks the school children will make he absorb half of them, and now my son happily go to school and deepu and rohan has a great bonding too now!”I came here to thank you and deepu that you again bring the light on my son life and lift his spirits’ to live, to fight.
It was dead silence for one minute and then deepu took rohan away to play cricket merrily! He doesn’t feel proud or something, for the “ganju patel” it was no big deal or incident! The rest grown up stands there thinking......
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