A crude Shopkeeper

A crude Shop Keeper


Madhav never quite knew exactly what the place was as he recently visited to this place . His dark fate pushed him to the dark day which made him to come a new land . The scarcity of his life , had not been filled up with the loving attempt of those who were related with him in blood like father, step mother, step brother who all, hated him much.

Human hatred, come from his parental litany made him to go to a far land. Torture and oppression did not allow him to stay there , so he prepared his mind to make his own future going to a far land. He belonged to the world of money less ,so after coming on the new place he received a pathetic harsh attitude of men. Here world of him seemed nothing but a curse of dark. On the road in the new place he stood under a tree. A cool shade he felt need to him. There was summer. Hard beams of sun burned his two bare legs , which had lost their stability to walk more. Aimlessly he sat and looked at , some dogs were relaxing on the road without creating shout , that made him amaze because on that vast land if a beast got place to stay ,he was human , so naturally he deserved place to live. He was in expect that he would come in the attention of any philanthropist but he was proved wrong when he found that passengers on their vehicle, and the passengers on walk giving him a gaze of ignorance passed him being remain unwilling to ask him any question to him. With a paler face Madhav walked down through the road when the city and its road were fried in the demonic summer.After a little bit of walk he went to ask the shopkeeper ," What the place is this? ."
" Mumbai, "said the sly shopkeeper coming near to him.
"But , I don't know , " said Madhav with loss of his spirits .
"Are you a new?" the sly shopkeeper, asked interestingly.
" Would you like to work with me."said the shopkeeper and went inside and didn't show his interest to come to him with a good reply for him. Madhav mocked at his fate bitterly and went to sit on the bench of shop. Sitting on the bench in his exhausted imagination he could find the dark face of human where so many spots of cruelty pushes their mates into the dark mock of helplessness that could not be counted by anything but that thought made him to fall in asleep as it was seemed to him in that time, a exhaustion. He slept interestingly although hunger of belly in that time was killed by his tension around the new land.

At the end of the day he was called to enter the shop as the shopkeeper showed his claim-less kindness on her on behalf of his ring which he did not want to lose from him. The reason behind was that his own mother gifted it him in his last birthday. Shopkeeper offered him to drink full of cold water , plate of rice and chicken. He said with a laugh in loud voice," That one I want ."

The hungry Madhav didn't pay his attention on him as his hunger made him deaf and dumb. He finished his task of eating although he had lost the scope to eat by his mother's hand. Money less Madhav came with a ring ,so he could not pay the shopkeeper, a thick price and bestowing his head in front of rude crude shopkeeper , he went to take a road to get find shelter. He walked long through crowded road insisting himself not listen shopkeeper's demand.

Behind him shopkeeper started to walk keeping on him his constant watch that was not guessed by him. Skipping crowd, pushing them behind he reached to Madhav. A fat stick he caught in his hand like a fear creators terrorists, he stroke on the head of Madhav. Madhav didn't come to guess what wrong had been happened with him. The flow of blood blowing through his wrist made the hands blood stained. The world around him went to the dark from where return back to a new life was impossible , so carrying a pain he breathed at last, in the last of the locality. The shopkeeper pulled him at the dark forest and taking ring from him left the place with his crude smiling face.