anuradha has written 168 poems.
looking at that sixty plus old man in a dhothi and a tattered wet shirt.
was looking like a crawling snake..
that village road was damp and leaking.
was panting, coughing and staring into the skies as if he’s waiting to see the angels from heaven or agents of the Hades.
I didn’t wait for her reply…rushed into the rain and reached the street corner and asked a passer-by, “Where’s the medical shop here?”, “No medical shop here…in fact up to a distance of 20 kms” he replied. “No medical shop?!!” stunned I shouted aloud.
Very sad plight of our villagers remote from instant medical aid.
Tv shows ads of Maruti car service centres in remote deserts.
Why not open more medical shops, hospitals and ambulance services in villages?
to be corrected to ‘cried for her’.
@kusumgokarn, Dear Kusumgokarn, thanks for your comments and appreciation. ‘Cry’ also means to ‘call’, to ‘utter loudly’. Unfortunately in Indian schools the teachers tell the students: cry means to weep. Our present generation is growing on junk literature of Rowlings and so many such others. Unless one reads the classics of yesteryears, one cannot understand and master the right usage of English. It is not our fault. All our Indian languages were derived from Sanskrit. English was derived from greek and latin. The etymology is different and as such the application of language and usage are also different. We often think in our mother tongue and try to write in English…that is where we falter. I advice all the youngsters who come to me to read Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, Elliot and James Joyce…very few listen to me. They go to Higginbothams and pick up some junk.
A shameful paradox being digested year after year by its honest citizens.
Thanks for the comments. This is a short story. Not a poem. I believe that; be it a story or a poem, unless it runs fast, the readers cannot relate themselves with the central theme and get the ultimate satisfaction of reading a good piece of work. That is my way of doing things.
I evaluated it not as a story but as a “story poem” hence the observation.
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