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The Track
September 16, 2024
Hundreds of people were travelling in the train. The train was jam packed with passengers. It was morning time. A mild cold breeze was blowing. The train was still quite far from the station. A shepherd was grazing his sheep at some distance from the track. The shepherd's eyes fell on the track which was broken to a large extent. The shepherd was an old man. His hair, beard and moustache had turned white. Without delaying, he ran towards the oncoming train. His breathing was getting fast. His whole body started aching due to fatigue. Now sunlight had started spreading all around. After some time, the shepherd reached quite far. The shepherd saw the oncoming train. The shepherd was wearing a red coloured towel. The shepherd, panting, stood on the track and waved his red towel. The train driver sensed the danger on seeing the red towel and applied emergency brakes. The shepherd moved away from the track. Sparks started coming out due to the dragging of the wheels of the train. After going some distance, the train stopped. Many people got out of the train. After some time, the shepherd reached there. A man got angry and slapped the shepherd. That man had to reach early due to some work. That man thought that this shepherd showed the red towel without any reason. The shepherd got slapped and went away from there without saying anything, taking his sheep. When many people walked some distance, they saw that the track was really broken. That man started regretting his mistake. It was afternoon. After a few days, the government honored the shepherd by giving him an award and that man also apologized to the shepherd.The Old House
September 17, 2024
Some children came out of the cinema hall after watching a movie. It was evening. Those children were going towards their home. The sky was cloudy. They were moving forward having fun. Cold winds were blowing. After some time, it started raining. To avoid getting wet, they came near an old house. That house was very old. Some time passed. But the rain was not stopping. Now it was night. The door of the house was open. They went inside the house. It was very dark inside. There was a sound of the door closing. As if someone had closed the door. The hearts of the children started beating loudly. It was not possible to see clearly in the dark. The children were locked in the house. Some murderer came running and kept attacking the children with a sharp knife. The screams of the children started echoing. One child ran. He started going upstairs through the stairs. The murderer also started following him. There was a weak glass window in the room upstairs. The child hit the glass window hard. The glass broke and the child fell down with a thud. A police jeep was passing by. Police officers heard the sound. The officers got out of the jeep and ran towards the child. The murderer was staring at the child from the window. The officers looked towards the window. The murderer hid. The officers called an ambulance and sent the child to the hospital. The officers went inside with lights. The floor of the house was red with blood. The dead bodies of the children were lying on the floor. The murderer started running away from there. The police officers fired bullets at him. But he escaped from there. The police officers started searching the entire city. The murderer hid in a very old house deep inside the forest nearby. He remained hidden there for two days. He started celebrating his victory of escaping from the clutches of the officers. He started dancing and jumping loudly on the floor of that old house. Due to which the roof of the house fell on him. He got a deep injury on the head. Blood started flowing. After some time, due to hunger, thirst and excessive bleeding, he stopped breathing. After a few days, his corpse started rotting and a foul smell started spreading. Rats started gnawing the flesh from the body of the corpse.Motivational Speaker
September 18, 2024
Aboy from a poor family named Tanesh. He was around sixteen years old. Due to poverty, Tanesh had developed the habit of stealing. One day, Tanesh got a chance and entered a man's house. He could not succeed in stealing and was caught. When his father came to know about this, he became very angry. Tanesh's father came there and slapped Tanesh twice. He started crying right there. Tears started falling from his eyes. Everyone went to their respective homes. The next day Tanesh left the house and ran away. This news spread in the entire village. Tanesh was searched for. But he was not found. Tanesh had gone to some faraway district. Tanesh took shelter on a tree and started working at a dhaba. With the money he got from working, he would buy food and eat and save some money. With the saved money, he would buy some books and keep reading. On the other hand, the parents would sit sad at home when they could not find Tanesh. Days went by like this. Five years passed. Tanesh now started working as a motivational speaker on small stages. He earned some money from this. Now he did not go to work at the Dhaba. Slowly he became famous. One day Tanesh's parents had come to the market to buy vegetables. A known person came and said - Your son is acting on stage. Hearing this, a smile came on the faces of the parents. They started moving towards the stage quickly. Thousands of people had gathered around the stage. The father also started watching his son's show. Today the parents were feeling proud seeing their son. After a few hours the show ended. Everyone started going to their respective homes. Tanesh also started moving towards his car. The father did not have the courage to say anything. Both of them started walking towards their home quietly. Tanesh looked towards them. Tanesh recognized his parents. Tanesh came from behind and put his hand on his father's shoulder. The father looked back and saw that it was his son. Who had now become a 22-year-old youth. The son touched his parents' feet and tears of joy appeared in the parents' eyes.Penance
September 19, 2024
There was a person named Raghuman. When he was eighteen years old, he left his studies and took blessings from his parents and left for the forest to do penance. He used to do penance by staying in the forest. His parents also did not know which forest their only son had gone to. He used to fill his stomach by eating leaves of trees and plants. He used to quench his thirst by drinking water from lakes and waterfalls. Days passed like this. After a few years, Raghuman's father died. The villagers searched for Raghuman to perform the last rites of his father. But Raghuman was not found. Raghuman's mother performed his last rites. Some days passed. Raghuman was engrossed in his penance. He did not even know that his father had died. His mother mortgaged her house. With the money received from mortgaging, she arranged for a feast. People from the entire village came to the feast. It was evening. Everyone went home after eating. Raghuman's mother was lying on the cot. She was remembering her husband and son. Time passed like this. Now the ration of the house was over. Raghuman's mother started sleeping on an empty stomach. After a few days, Raghuman's mother stopped breathing. The villagers cremated his mother. Forty-two years passed. Even after doing penance for forty-two years, Raghuman could not find God. He was now sixty years old. His hair, beard and moustache had become long and white. Raghuman had now become old. He came to his village. But people could not recognize him. Raghuman reached his house. The house was locked. Raghuman asked a person - Brother, why is there a lock on this place? And where did the people living here go? The person told him everything. Raghuman came to know that his parents are no longer in this world. He was deeply shocked. Raman sat there and started crying bitterly. Now the house also belonged to the landlord. Raghuman wiped his tears and sat under a banyan tree. He was now regretting. He was thinking to himself. If I wanted, I could have served my parents or lived happily with my parents. But now it was too late. Raghuman no longer had the strength to work. Now he used to sit under the same tree every day. If someone gave him food, he would eat it or if he did not get food, he would remain hungry.Separation
September 20, 2024
Amovie named Bajrangi Bhaijaan was playing in the cinema hall. Rashm was watching that movie. After the movie was over, he was going home on his motorcycle. It was around 8 o'clock at night. He was passing in front of the railway station. He heard a girl crying. Rashm stopped his motorcycle and went to the station. Rashm saw a 12 year old girl crying calling out for her mother. Rashm asked, "What is your name? Where are you from?" The girl said, "My name is Sharifa. I am from Pakistan. How did that girl get separated from her mother?" She told Rashm all this. Rashm took her to his home. It was morning. Rashm took her to an office where Pakistani visas are made. The Indian official told Rashm, "All the roads leading to Pakistan have been closed for seven days. So you come after seven days." Rashm took Sharifa from there and left. Inspired by the movie Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Rashm started thinking about taking the girl through another route. The next day, Rashm reached the Pakistan border in the west of Rajasthan with the girl. Sand was spread all around. Hot winds were blowing. Rashm started looking for a tunnel here and there. But he could not find the tunnel. Rashm now tried to go to Pakistan by cutting the barbed wires laid on the border. By then Indian soldiers arrived there. Rashm was caught. Rashm was interrogated. Rashm told everything. Rashm's family members reached there after some time. Rashm was released after a few days. The Indian government handed over the little girl to the Pakistan government. The Pakistan government safely delivered the girl to her parents.A Link
September 24, 2024
An eighteen year old girl named Sariya who completed her 12th standard a few days ago. Sariya was the only child of her parents. Her parents pampered her a lot. One day Sariya was lying on the bed in her room and was using Facebook. She received a friend request from a boy named Silaun on Facebook. Sariya accepted the friend request. Silaun sent a link to Sariya. Sariya opened her account on a dating app by clicking on the link and installed the app from the play store. They kept talking for a few days. Silaun dated Sariya to have sex. Sariya agreed. It was morning the next day. Sariya got ready and told her mother- Mother I am going for a walk with my friends, I will return in the evening. Saying this Sariya sat in a rented car and reached the address given by Silaun. She went inside the rented room. She saw Silaun was sitting on the bed. Both of them started having sex together. After some time it became evening. Their sex program ended. Both of them went to their respective homes. The next day Sariya woke up. A message came on her mobile. In which it was written- Give me five lakh rupees as soon as possible. Otherwise I will make the sex video viral. You have only two days time. It was Silaun who sent this message. Silaun had taken the video with a hidden camera. Sariya was shocked. She did not understand what to do now? Sariya was from a middle class family. She thought of committing suicide. She hung herself with a noose. She started struggling. Just then her mother came there and held her feet. Because it was Sunday, her father was also at home. Her father came there and brought her down. She was breathing. Sariya was made to sit on the bed. After giving her water, the mother said- Son, why were you doing this? Sariya told everything to her parents. The parents supported Sariya. He filed a report in the police station. Silaun was arrested and put in jail. The police officers beat Silaun badly and took the video from him and deleted it.The Old Man
September 25, 2024
Two terrorists were planting bombs on the railway track. At some distance, a shepherd was grazing his sheep. That shepherd was an old man. Whose age was more than sixty years. The terrorists planted a bomb on the track and blew it up. There was a loud sound. The old man said- what happened? People started coming to see this. The terrorists started running from there. Suddenly the weather changed. Dark clouds started gathering. A lightning struck those two terrorists and they fell on the ground. A large part of the track was broken. That old man saw all this. The old man heard the sound of the train from a very far distance. Which was quite far. The old man had a red gamchha around his neck. The old man started running on the railway tracks holding the gamchha. His breathing was getting fast. He got tired and stopped. He started panting. He then ran with all his might. He stopped again and then ran again. While doing this, he came very close to the train. Panting, he waved the red gamchha like a flag. The train driver saw this. The old man stood a little distance away from the track. The train driver applied emergency brakes. The train was about a hundred meters away from the broken track. The wheels of the train were dragging and moving. Sparks started appearing on the tracks due to the friction of the wheels of the train. The train stopped a little distance away from the broken track. Everyone started getting down. The train driver also got down. The train driver saw. The track was badly broken. The train driver muttered to himself and said- if that old man had not been there today, a big accident could have happened. After some time the police came there. Two men were lying there. They were taken to the hospital. The doctors said- both of them have become paralyzed. The search for the old man began. But that old man was not found. Perhaps that old man did not want to take credit for his good deed.
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September 16, 2024
Hundreds of people were travelling in the train. The train was jam packed with passengers. It was morning time. A mild cold breeze was blowing. The train was still quite far from the station. A shepherd was grazing his sheep at some distance from the track. The shepherd's eyes fell on the track which was broken to a large extent. The shepherd was an old man. His hair, beard and moustache had turned white. Without delaying, he ran towards the oncoming train. His breathing was getting fast. His whole body started aching due to fatigue. Now sunlight had started spreading all around. After some time, the shepherd reached quite far. The shepherd saw the oncoming train. The shepherd was wearing a red coloured towel. The shepherd, panting, stood on the track and waved his red towel. The train driver sensed the danger on seeing the red towel and applied emergency brakes. The shepherd moved away from the track. Sparks started coming out due to the dragging of the wheels of the train. After going some distance, the train stopped. Many people got out of the train. After some time, the shepherd reached there. A man got angry and slapped the shepherd. That man had to reach early due to some work. That man thought that this shepherd showed the red towel without any reason. The shepherd got slapped and went away from there without saying anything, taking his sheep. When many people walked some distance, they saw that the track was really broken. That man started regretting his mistake. It was afternoon. After a few days, the government honored the shepherd by giving him an award and that man also apologized to the shepherd.The Old House
September 17, 2024
Some children came out of the cinema hall after watching a movie. It was evening. Those children were going towards their home. The sky was cloudy. They were moving forward having fun. Cold winds were blowing. After some time, it started raining. To avoid getting wet, they came near an old house. That house was very old. Some time passed. But the rain was not stopping. Now it was night. The door of the house was open. They went inside the house. It was very dark inside. There was a sound of the door closing. As if someone had closed the door. The hearts of the children started beating loudly. It was not possible to see clearly in the dark. The children were locked in the house. Some murderer came running and kept attacking the children with a sharp knife. The screams of the children started echoing. One child ran. He started going upstairs through the stairs. The murderer also started following him. There was a weak glass window in the room upstairs. The child hit the glass window hard. The glass broke and the child fell down with a thud. A police jeep was passing by. Police officers heard the sound. The officers got out of the jeep and ran towards the child. The murderer was staring at the child from the window. The officers looked towards the window. The murderer hid. The officers called an ambulance and sent the child to the hospital. The officers went inside with lights. The floor of the house was red with blood. The dead bodies of the children were lying on the floor. The murderer started running away from there. The police officers fired bullets at him. But he escaped from there. The police officers started searching the entire city. The murderer hid in a very old house deep inside the forest nearby. He remained hidden there for two days. He started celebrating his victory of escaping from the clutches of the officers. He started dancing and jumping loudly on the floor of that old house. Due to which the roof of the house fell on him. He got a deep injury on the head. Blood started flowing. After some time, due to hunger, thirst and excessive bleeding, he stopped breathing. After a few days, his corpse started rotting and a foul smell started spreading. Rats started gnawing the flesh from the body of the corpse.Motivational Speaker
September 18, 2024
Aboy from a poor family named Tanesh. He was around sixteen years old. Due to poverty, Tanesh had developed the habit of stealing. One day, Tanesh got a chance and entered a man's house. He could not succeed in stealing and was caught. When his father came to know about this, he became very angry. Tanesh's father came there and slapped Tanesh twice. He started crying right there. Tears started falling from his eyes. Everyone went to their respective homes. The next day Tanesh left the house and ran away. This news spread in the entire village. Tanesh was searched for. But he was not found. Tanesh had gone to some faraway district. Tanesh took shelter on a tree and started working at a dhaba. With the money he got from working, he would buy food and eat and save some money. With the saved money, he would buy some books and keep reading. On the other hand, the parents would sit sad at home when they could not find Tanesh. Days went by like this. Five years passed. Tanesh now started working as a motivational speaker on small stages. He earned some money from this. Now he did not go to work at the Dhaba. Slowly he became famous. One day Tanesh's parents had come to the market to buy vegetables. A known person came and said - Your son is acting on stage. Hearing this, a smile came on the faces of the parents. They started moving towards the stage quickly. Thousands of people had gathered around the stage. The father also started watching his son's show. Today the parents were feeling proud seeing their son. After a few hours the show ended. Everyone started going to their respective homes. Tanesh also started moving towards his car. The father did not have the courage to say anything. Both of them started walking towards their home quietly. Tanesh looked towards them. Tanesh recognized his parents. Tanesh came from behind and put his hand on his father's shoulder. The father looked back and saw that it was his son. Who had now become a 22-year-old youth. The son touched his parents' feet and tears of joy appeared in the parents' eyes.Penance
September 19, 2024
There was a person named Raghuman. When he was eighteen years old, he left his studies and took blessings from his parents and left for the forest to do penance. He used to do penance by staying in the forest. His parents also did not know which forest their only son had gone to. He used to fill his stomach by eating leaves of trees and plants. He used to quench his thirst by drinking water from lakes and waterfalls. Days passed like this. After a few years, Raghuman's father died. The villagers searched for Raghuman to perform the last rites of his father. But Raghuman was not found. Raghuman's mother performed his last rites. Some days passed. Raghuman was engrossed in his penance. He did not even know that his father had died. His mother mortgaged her house. With the money received from mortgaging, she arranged for a feast. People from the entire village came to the feast. It was evening. Everyone went home after eating. Raghuman's mother was lying on the cot. She was remembering her husband and son. Time passed like this. Now the ration of the house was over. Raghuman's mother started sleeping on an empty stomach. After a few days, Raghuman's mother stopped breathing. The villagers cremated his mother. Forty-two years passed. Even after doing penance for forty-two years, Raghuman could not find God. He was now sixty years old. His hair, beard and moustache had become long and white. Raghuman had now become old. He came to his village. But people could not recognize him. Raghuman reached his house. The house was locked. Raghuman asked a person - Brother, why is there a lock on this place? And where did the people living here go? The person told him everything. Raghuman came to know that his parents are no longer in this world. He was deeply shocked. Raman sat there and started crying bitterly. Now the house also belonged to the landlord. Raghuman wiped his tears and sat under a banyan tree. He was now regretting. He was thinking to himself. If I wanted, I could have served my parents or lived happily with my parents. But now it was too late. Raghuman no longer had the strength to work. Now he used to sit under the same tree every day. If someone gave him food, he would eat it or if he did not get food, he would remain hungry.Separation
September 20, 2024
Amovie named Bajrangi Bhaijaan was playing in the cinema hall. Rashm was watching that movie. After the movie was over, he was going home on his motorcycle. It was around 8 o'clock at night. He was passing in front of the railway station. He heard a girl crying. Rashm stopped his motorcycle and went to the station. Rashm saw a 12 year old girl crying calling out for her mother. Rashm asked, "What is your name? Where are you from?" The girl said, "My name is Sharifa. I am from Pakistan. How did that girl get separated from her mother?" She told Rashm all this. Rashm took her to his home. It was morning. Rashm took her to an office where Pakistani visas are made. The Indian official told Rashm, "All the roads leading to Pakistan have been closed for seven days. So you come after seven days." Rashm took Sharifa from there and left. Inspired by the movie Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Rashm started thinking about taking the girl through another route. The next day, Rashm reached the Pakistan border in the west of Rajasthan with the girl. Sand was spread all around. Hot winds were blowing. Rashm started looking for a tunnel here and there. But he could not find the tunnel. Rashm now tried to go to Pakistan by cutting the barbed wires laid on the border. By then Indian soldiers arrived there. Rashm was caught. Rashm was interrogated. Rashm told everything. Rashm's family members reached there after some time. Rashm was released after a few days. The Indian government handed over the little girl to the Pakistan government. The Pakistan government safely delivered the girl to her parents.A Link
September 24, 2024
An eighteen year old girl named Sariya who completed her 12th standard a few days ago. Sariya was the only child of her parents. Her parents pampered her a lot. One day Sariya was lying on the bed in her room and was using Facebook. She received a friend request from a boy named Silaun on Facebook. Sariya accepted the friend request. Silaun sent a link to Sariya. Sariya opened her account on a dating app by clicking on the link and installed the app from the play store. They kept talking for a few days. Silaun dated Sariya to have sex. Sariya agreed. It was morning the next day. Sariya got ready and told her mother- Mother I am going for a walk with my friends, I will return in the evening. Saying this Sariya sat in a rented car and reached the address given by Silaun. She went inside the rented room. She saw Silaun was sitting on the bed. Both of them started having sex together. After some time it became evening. Their sex program ended. Both of them went to their respective homes. The next day Sariya woke up. A message came on her mobile. In which it was written- Give me five lakh rupees as soon as possible. Otherwise I will make the sex video viral. You have only two days time. It was Silaun who sent this message. Silaun had taken the video with a hidden camera. Sariya was shocked. She did not understand what to do now? Sariya was from a middle class family. She thought of committing suicide. She hung herself with a noose. She started struggling. Just then her mother came there and held her feet. Because it was Sunday, her father was also at home. Her father came there and brought her down. She was breathing. Sariya was made to sit on the bed. After giving her water, the mother said- Son, why were you doing this? Sariya told everything to her parents. The parents supported Sariya. He filed a report in the police station. Silaun was arrested and put in jail. The police officers beat Silaun badly and took the video from him and deleted it.The Old Man
September 25, 2024
Two terrorists were planting bombs on the railway track. At some distance, a shepherd was grazing his sheep. That shepherd was an old man. Whose age was more than sixty years. The terrorists planted a bomb on the track and blew it up. There was a loud sound. The old man said- what happened? People started coming to see this. The terrorists started running from there. Suddenly the weather changed. Dark clouds started gathering. A lightning struck those two terrorists and they fell on the ground. A large part of the track was broken. That old man saw all this. The old man heard the sound of the train from a very far distance. Which was quite far. The old man had a red gamchha around his neck. The old man started running on the railway tracks holding the gamchha. His breathing was getting fast. He got tired and stopped. He started panting. He then ran with all his might. He stopped again and then ran again. While doing this, he came very close to the train. Panting, he waved the red gamchha like a flag. The train driver saw this. The old man stood a little distance away from the track. The train driver applied emergency brakes. The train was about a hundred meters away from the broken track. The wheels of the train were dragging and moving. Sparks started appearing on the tracks due to the friction of the wheels of the train. The train stopped a little distance away from the broken track. Everyone started getting down. The train driver also got down. The train driver saw. The track was badly broken. The train driver muttered to himself and said- if that old man had not been there today, a big accident could have happened. After some time the police came there. Two men were lying there. They were taken to the hospital. The doctors said- both of them have become paralyzed. The search for the old man began. But that old man was not found. Perhaps that old man did not want to take credit for his good deed.
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