The boy said to his rich father
"Give me a smart phone
All my friends have their smartphone
I feel humiliated in their company
They laugh at me and say
If your father is a businessman
Traveling to distances in this
Huge country of ours
Why can’t he buy you a smartphone?"
An irrefutable piece of argument it was!
The son soon had his smartphone!
It didn’t make him any smarter though
On the contrary…
“If you don’t give me a Bullet bike
I’ll not go to school,” said the brat.
To his rich dad after two months
All these years up to standard eleven
He has been to school on the school bus.
But now that he’s grown up
It felt it below his dignity!
He struck at the right year!
The twelfth year, the last year!
He said it would take to his tuitions
And classes in time!
He tied his dad in a blackmailing bind
“I’m not going to school without a Bullet!”
The dad was truly in bind
For he was a member of a joint family
Four brothers worked in the business
And pooled their labor to profit
If they didn’t, their wives and children
Would be without the good life they have
The dad said, “Son, a bike you’ll have after
You pass your Class Twelve!”
To make a long story short
The boy stepped out of his house
In his uniform but didn’t attend classes
To the tuitions he went but
Lost his way and landed at wrong places!
He even skipped his exams!
He foreknew his ISC result
He failed and laid the blame
On his father’s head!
Xavier Bage
Tuesday, September 05, 2017
