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Pravin Kumar
Age: 64 Zodiac: 
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 Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:51 am |
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As I glanced at the papers today at brilliant students who had topped board exams, I saw her standing afar:
She stood, a small figure in front of the school notice board. With anxious eyes she searched for her number.
It wasn’t there.
The girls around her jostled and pushed. There were screams of delight and shrieks of ecstasy. She turned away from the sounds tears streaming down her face. Far away she heard same laughter turning into jeers. Suddenly she felt imaginary eyes on her back and voices saying.
“She’s dumb you know, she failed.”
“She was never any good.”
“Remember in class, she sat with that stupid look.”
She turned and walked the stairs to her now empty class. In silence, she heard her teacher’s voice. “Why don’t you do your homework like the others, you’ll fail if you go on like this.”
How was she to tell her teacher she hadn’t understood a thing in class to do her work at home, that every time she made an attempt, words hurled at her made her feel small and inadequate.
“Stand outside the class will you, let the whole school know what an idiot you are!”
She had stood outside and watched juniors laughing as they walked past. The teacher had called her in later. There were sniggers from the other girls as she sat on her bench. “Dumb,” they all seemed to say. “She’s just plain dumb.” There were no tears to wash away the heaviness in her heart.
She sat on her bench in the empty classroom and her thoughts went home. A shiver ran down her spine. She saw her father tall and menacing standing in front of her. “You better pass, we don’t want neighbours laughing at us do we?”
An uncle had sniggered. “She’s got her brains from her mother’s side!”
“Oh no!” shouted her mother, “its her own dopey mind.”
“I don’t care from whom you got your brains,” her father had shouted, “but if you fail, you’ve had it!”
“At least pass, so we can marry you off,” her mother had piped in.
Voices! Laughter! Shouting! Sniggering, in the empty, silent classroom.
Voices chasing each other round and round in her mind. Laughter, cruel and brutal, sniggers, sharp and merciless, echoed louder and louder in her head, till suddenly she felt herself shudder involuntarily.
“Stupid!” they shouted.
“Idiot!” they yelled.
“Failure!” they cried.
Like a zombie she climbed the steps one by one, the tears no more there. She walked as though pushed by some invisible force. She smiled as she heard the taunts and jeers grow less and less. She smiled as she calmly climbed up onto the parapet wall.
She heard the screams below as she joyously threw herself down.
“Why did she do it?” cried classmates, teachers, her father and her mother.
‘Suicide’ was what the police report said, but it was murder…!
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