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Identity
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"Name?"
"Mother"
"Gender?"
"Woman"
"Which Woman?"
"Means?"hearing clerk's word she said,"what do you mean"?
"Hindus,Muslims,backward,Dailt,from which religion,cast or category you belong"?Clerk again asked her.
"Woman has no religion,cast or category woman is neither untouchable nor backward."she said"woman has only one identity.she is the mother of a man".
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The Existence
"Get you a gender test. If there is girl in the womb. So get rid of it", after hearing the news of Mala becoming pregnant, Reena advised her
"If your mother had done the same?"
The question of Mala had put a question mark on the existence of Reena.
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Edification
"Where are you going?when will you come back?why are you going?"seeing her daughter is going out Rama asked many questions. Daughter would answer before that Ramlal spoke to his wife,"Son had just gone out. But you did not asked him any question?"
"He is boy.He will not be upset ,"Rama said,"If something goes wrong with the daughter. Then we not be able to show our face".
"Who does wrong with a girl is also son of a woman"Ramlsl explained to her wife,"If every woman should ban her son. Give him good educatilon, then let the mother , when the daughter goes out will not fear.
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Mobile
"When you look at the mobile than you do not have time for me,"the wife gets anger on seeing mobile in his hand. He tries to talk to the wife by keeping the mobile But the wife's mood would have gone off.
Wife don:t be angry with him, so when she is busy with some work Then he started looking at mobile But still the wife comes to know and she----
His wife mobile was old and out of date So he gifted her a smartphone on her wife:s birthday. He also taught her wife how to use facebook, whatsapp and other apps.
Now the wife does not get angry on looking at mobile Because she herself enganged in mobile so she does not have time to get angry.
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Migrant
"You cut my nose Such poor work through a high family",Manoj did not get any job even after a lot of efforts Then he started selling vegetables on the trolly.Seeing the upper class educated by selling vegetables on a trolly, people used to talk a lot. One day the father said in displeasure at the obverse of the people being angry,"I am ashamed to call you my son".
Distraught over the objection of the peoole he went abroad for work.
Now he comes home once a year. Not only the people of the house, they also respected him a lot. Those who used to say the opposite things earlier.Now he has become migrant
But they don't know, he is doing the same work abroad
The work that was left here.
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Light
"Put it outside".mother said while giving clay lamp to her son
The son came out .He saw the darkness in the hut in front of his house He kept lamp there
"Put",the mother asked when son came inside house. Son said,"yes I put lamp in front of hut".
"Why there?"mother asked with surprised.
There was darkness. Bulbs are lughting here. The clay lamp is needed there ,the birth is dark,"the son said,"light is here, so why dark in front"?