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Meet me at the corner of the street
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The letter carried brief instructions: 'Meet me at the corner of the street', it read. But who was it from?want to know‽ let's go back to the year 1919 a day before the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre that is 12th April 1919. Time was 7.46 Darshita a girl from Dharavi, Mumbai came to Amritsar for journalism about, the problems faced by Indians for attaining freedom from the English. In the narrow passage to Jallianwala Bagh a kid was dying in hunger , searching for his mother to feed . Darshita took 2pieces of roti and gave that to the child. She sat beside that child and was watching the way he eats. His father is a dhobi who wash clothes for upper caste people and gets his pay . Though they said to be upper caste but, not by heart. she asks about the child's life and promises him to make sure as a great man to this world.
she stayed in their house which was 100 meter away from Jallianwala Bagh.
Next day when the sun was about to hit 6 the child's father went for work and mother started her chores in house. Darshita and that child were sleeping. Darshita woke up at 8.20 and the child too. After eating morning breakfast (stale Chappathi with butter and sugar sprinkled on it) ,she and the child were playing outside and his mother came out of the house to see their playing. Just then a news was said by a announcers saying that, ''evening there is a meeting held at Jallianwala Bagh. All people are said to join in this protest''. After the announcement vanished child's father came with a big...
The letter carried brief instructions: 'Meet me at the corner of the street', it read. But who was it from?want to know‽ let's go back to the year 1919 a day before the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre that is 12th April 1919. Time was 7.46 Darshita a girl from Dharavi, Mumbai came to Amritsar for journalism about, the problems faced by Indians for attaining freedom from the English. In the narrow passage to Jallianwala Bagh a kid was dying in hunger , searching for his mother to feed . Darshita took 2pieces of roti and gave that to the child. She sat beside that child and was watching the way he eats. His father is a dhobi who wash clothes for upper caste people and gets his pay . Though they said to be upper caste but, not by heart. she asks about the child's life and promises him to make sure as a great man to this world.
she stayed in their house which was 100 meter away from Jallianwala Bagh.
Next day when the sun was about to hit 6 the child's father went for work and mother started her chores in house. Darshita and that child were sleeping. Darshita woke up at 8.20 and the child too. After eating morning breakfast (stale Chappathi with butter and sugar sprinkled on it) ,she and the child were playing outside and his mother came out of the house to see their playing. Just then a news was said by a announcers saying that, ''evening there is a meeting held at Jallianwala Bagh. All people are said to join in this protest''. After the announcement vanished child's father came with a big...
