A Different Beat

Some times people without knowing what they are doing or what they are supposed to do will start instructing others and then this is what would happen …

Once upon a time there used to be a DHOBI (like in most of the stories). Unlike other stories he had a horse and a donkey. The donkey was really good at not doing anything; so I will call him smart. The horse was intelligent, hardworking and efficient in work but honest; so I will call him dumb.

Now so far so good as we have missed an important character of the story: the legendary DHOBI. A perfect human being (as per the definition of human beings; they have a few drawbacks). The king of the state was a really noble man with a dream that all his people should live healthy life. And for that, there should be a minimum level of hygiene in the state. So he declared an offer for all that one who will give best suggestion for fulfilling the dream will get one fifth of his wealth. The perfect man of ours went with a plan to win the amount and proposed to the king that he will do the task by cleaning the cloths of all people. And he got kings’ assignment to keep his city neat and clean.

Amangal was the village taken as first week’s task. The village was a common Indian type with various kinds of people in it. Some very sophisticated, educated and well to do people and some poor slum-dwellers. The task of keeping them all neat and tidy was really a gigantic goal to achieve in a week’s time.

2 B Continued…