Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Mera Tann mann

....it was  a moonlit  night,  she was upstairs   in the attic room  aimlessly restlessly  walking around,  her eyes  distant from sleep,  it was then that  she  heard  the crying of  the child from  the other side of the high walls, she  craned her neck to look down,  she got even more disturbed,  shanu was trying to quiet the infant  nestled in her arms  , she was  frequently glancing upwards towards her direction,  suddenly their eyes met  and sganu turned away,  shanu s husband  shafuq also got up  , now both began  taking turns to  quiet the infant  and before she could ask them to let her hold the infant both  left the back yard to go inside 
She  looked at the  hardworking  woman  longingly,  who worked during the daytime in a brick kiln   and during the evenings took care of her two kids, guiding and kaka , spending time with her husband happily,  she was envious,  tehrim shaukat who was the daughter of chaudhary sgaukat  who was  the land lord of  vast lands,  who had  tens of servants at home,  she was envious of this hardworking honest woman 
She kept  strolling around on the terrace looking into the far  dark distant night roads where  traffic passing by made  patterns of  lights 

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