वो पराजित कर गयी (A Short Story in Hindi)

Students' Academy

a short story

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00:00She was defeated.

00:05Sitting on the last seat of the bus,

00:10he was drowning in deep thoughts.

00:13The bus had stopped at the den

00:16and all the seats were full.

00:19Many boys were sitting in the bus,

00:21they were immersed in chats.

00:25Meanwhile, an old man

00:28entered through the next door of the bus

00:33and started looking at the seats with shy eyes.

00:40He decided to leave his seat for the old man.

00:47But the old man was very far from him.

00:51He thought that one of the boys sitting in front

00:55would leave his seat and give it to the old man.

01:00So he changed his mind.

01:03But none of the boys left their seats and got up.

01:07The bus was moving.

01:09Meanwhile, a 14-year-old school-going girl

01:15got up from her seat and stood up.

01:18She had a heavy school bag on her back.

01:22She stood up and gave her seat to the old man.

01:26The girl said to the old man,

01:28you sit, I just have to get off at the next stop.

01:33The old man did not want to take the seat of that small girl.

01:38But the girl forced him to sit on her seat.

01:44He sat on the last seat of the bus,

01:46he was seeing everything.

01:48He was very ashamed of himself.

01:50And he started hiding his face from the people sitting on the bus.

01:54The boys sitting on the bus kept watching the drama.

01:57But no one left their seats and did not get up to make the old man sit in his place.

02:04Then an old man put the girl who was studying at that school on his seat.

02:16Seeing this, he sat on the last seat of the bus.

02:20He got some peace.

02:23He saw that little school-going girl again.

02:28And he felt very proud.

02:31He started enjoying the scenery outside the bus window.

02:35He looked at the boys sitting on the bus

02:38and then looked at the school-going girl.

02:43And then he started thinking,

02:45don't girls still have the right to be born?

02:53Thank you very much to all of you.

02:59Like our own child,

03:02which child does not love toys?

03:07But the most beautiful toy of small children is a balloon.

03:12As soon as a small child touches a round balloon like himself,

03:19he becomes very happy and starts playing.

03:26Touching the balloon, he feels as if he has shaken hands with a friend.

03:34For the first time, seeing a balloon,

03:37the child's eyes look surprised and bright,

03:41but immediately a smile comes on his face.

03:45When someone gives a balloon to a child,

03:48he becomes very grateful

03:50and considers the giver as his friend.

03:53Keeping this in mind,

03:55I always kept 5-7 balloons in my pocket,

03:59which I used to give to the children.

04:03Whenever a stranger came to me,

04:08I used to blow a balloon and give it to him.

04:12After blowing this balloon,

04:15tying it with a thread and giving it to the child,

04:19becoming friends with that child

04:22had become a part of my nature.

04:27Sometimes I used to play a game with a child at home.

04:32I used to take a balloon in one hand and a toffee in the other

04:35and ask him what he wanted.

04:38That child used to put his hand forward,

04:40but I used to pull both my hands back

04:42and used to say,

04:43no, take one,

04:44either take a balloon or toffee.

04:46The poor innocent child was stuck in a dilemma.

04:50He wanted to touch the balloon

04:52and he wanted to taste the sweetness of the toffee.

04:55He was stuck in a dilemma.

04:57Sometimes he tried to take one,

04:59sometimes the other.

05:01I used to make him so desperate

05:03that he was about to cry.

05:05But I would immediately give him both the things

05:08and he would be happy.

05:10With this double happiness,

05:12the child used to get even more desperate

05:14and I used to get a lot of peace.

05:17I used to make the child desperate for my own happiness

05:21and then to get rid of my guilt,

05:24I used to take the child in my lap and kiss him.

05:28One day, a two-and-a-half-year-old beggar child

05:32like a black balloon

05:34was standing at my door with his hands outstretched.

05:38I started thinking that

05:40a beggar child learns to walk on his feet

05:43and also learns to earn.

05:48I felt very sorry for that child

05:52and to give him one rupee,

05:54I put my hand in my pocket

05:56and my hand touched the balloon in my pocket.

05:59I thought that the child

06:01would never play with a balloon.

06:04He must have had money and food in his hand many times,

06:08but perhaps no one would have given him a balloon.

06:12I was thinking that

06:14how happy that child would be to get a balloon all of a sudden.

06:18Just like other children,

06:20the child would look surprised and delighted

06:23and he would also smile.

06:25I looked here and there,

06:27there was no one around.

06:29To double his happiness,

06:31I held a balloon tied with a thread

06:33in one hand and a rupee in the other hand

06:36and said,

06:37anyone can take one,

06:39balloon or rupee.

06:41That child had probably never seen a balloon so closely.

06:46I found that very exciting.

06:49But his hand was used to money only.

06:53On one side was his life

06:55and on the other side was his dream.

06:58He was not able to choose one of the two.

07:01Sometimes he would come towards one hand

07:04and sometimes towards the other hand.

07:07Just like other children,

07:09he could not cry in front of a stranger

07:14who was going to beg him.

07:19His hand could not go to any one side

07:22and it would remain spread in front of me.

07:25After making him wait for some time,

07:28I gave him one rupee and the balloon.

07:31I thought that his happiness would also double

07:34after getting two things.

07:36I thought that maybe that child

07:38was feeling like he had won the world

07:41by taking money in one hand and a dream in the other.

07:46But I did not see any shine in his eyes.

07:51He quietly took the money and the balloon

07:54and looked at me with strange eyes

07:58and put an innocent accusation on me.

08:02If he had to give both,

08:04then why did he make me wait for so long?

08:08And if he had made me wait,

08:10then why did he not kiss me like his own child?

08:16I just kept looking at that innocent beggar's child

08:22like a defeated and confused person

08:27who had been made very small in my eyes.

08:31Suddenly my eyes became numb.

08:34That's it.

08:35After that day, I stopped playing with the balloons.

08:39Thank you very much.

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