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The Old Beggar
The streets had started bustling again with a mixture of aware and unaware people. Yet the societies were filled with silence. Women and children didn't step out of their houses. Everyone could sense the panic inflicted by coronavirus. Was this really Punit nagar? The society which used to be full with the sounds of vendors and chatting women, where now and then Vimla aunty would burst out angrily because of cricket balls causing disturbance to her, where a cat-dog fight would often create a havoc in the society. But since past some months there were no sounds by anyone in the silence that filled the society. Even a small noise would make Vimla aunty jump with excitement and she would run to the window and peep out of it in the hope of finding a cricket ball. Even the cat and dog seemed perturbed by the absence of...