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NANI'S HOME PART 5

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Preeti: Skeleton, what is that? Ram: It is lots of bones. People throw their dead animals in that place. The dead animal’s skin and other body parts decay or eaten by dog or other animals then only bones remain. The bones are called skeleton. Raj: You mean to say. We will become skeleton, when we will die. Preeti: We will but we will be buried. And no one will dig our buried body. Shyam: Some people are burned after their death; I saw when I went to take a bath in the Ganga River. They all now reached to mango’s garden. Raj said, "It is our garden. We used to come here for play and some time pluck mangoes. There are mostly mangoes tree but some is blackberry and cluster fig." Shyam: Bhaiya, can I climb on the tree? There are some small unripe mangos. Ram: No, you are too small to climb. I can pluck this for you with a stone. Ram throws a stone on the tree. It did not hit the mango. He again tried to hit the mango, with a wood. It hit the mango. The mango fell on earth everyon...

NANI'S HOME PART 4

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Source: Pixabay They decided to go outside of the home . Raj asked everyone to go to mango’s garden (Aam ka bagh). They all told Nana and Nani, “They are going out to aam ka bagh.” Nani said, “Go but be careful from insects and snakes.” Raj replied, “Everyone will be safe with me.” They saw a bamboo tree. Raj: There are so many bamboos. Everyone cut bamboos from this tree who required.” They moved farther and they saw a garden fitted with net. In this garden there were so many plants of different variety like guava, Carissa carandas (karonda) black plum (jamun), lemon, mangoes and sweet lemon (mosambi) etc. There they saw a horse tied with a pole (khunta). The horse was of white colour. Shyam said, “It is very nice garden. What if there is a small house inside the garden.” Preeti: I must daily feed the horse. I must also pluck the fruits and mangoes. Ram: If we have horse then I must go for a ride on horse. I must sleep on the roof for cool and natural air.” They walked forward holding...

NANI'S HOME PART 3

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Source: Pixabay He tried to walk slowly. He also massaged with his hand on his leg. He felt good and asked his brother to go. They again started their journey. In the path, they were going on, was very quiet and no person was seen. The path was between crop fields. They almost travelled for more than half of the journey only half kilometre was remaining. They were now entering the village. Shyam saw a playground near a government school. He was surprised. Shyam: Bhaiya, see how big is the play ground. Some people are playing cricket . Ram: Yes, I knew. Last time, I came with the mother then people were playing volleyball . I came to this play ground. Shyam: But it is not in our village or near to our school . I will play every day. Ram: We may not have playground but we have so many empty spaces and a plot available beside our home where we used to play gilli-danda , kho- kho, cricket etc. With all these talks they reached to their nani’s home . Ram kept the cycle on the hut that w...