Salim

Trains gets slow every time it sense another fast moving train coming towards it, the train is sensefull, it stops itself like magic and people has to wait, sometime for long or just few minutes. Salim is sleeping on floor unaware of where he is. The person on the berth beside him is talking on phone in a loud voise as he does not care about umaware sleeping rats, that has no place in AC or sleeper boggie, as they don't have pockets. These people are lying on floors just like Salim. Person sleeping on berth is not less than criminals for rats, and the people lying on floor are just rat for criminals. On each stop, people rush through gate enters in the prison as like it is heaven. They just shout on the criminal to give some space to them so that they can themselves comfortable in this world and became criminals for figting up their need to sleep in better hygienic condition than rat. Rats get attention as crowd tried to find floor of boggie in the river of human. New criminals are lucky and celebrate with some ralaxation in eyes. A leg in hell just brushes the Salim hand and wake him up.

Salim is just dreamimg of the home, heaven and mother and he just wake up in reality. He is a rat in this hell with human body lie on floor like soldier in war jone except these body do breath. He gather all his sense and try to stand around the heap. Train just hault, and he felt a sudden jerk, he fell down on other persons. He say sorry (speaking in hindi:"bhai, maaf kar do).

It's been a long journey for him from Patna to Delhi in search of some work. His love, his home, his farmland, his bicycle, even his soul is been parting away with the speed of moving train. Soon he will loose his soul and will mixed in the unrecognised unformal labour force, without identity, without any soul just a body with some skill to reiterate the same work day and day in a small factory. He will be dead in the city.

But may be time will flow much faster than the train passing these station and again he will come back to home, with his love.

He move toward the gate of boggie, it's early morning. Tea stall has been opened and tea is being prepared by the bendors. He step out from boggie, ask for water from the bendor. Bendor give him a bottle fulled with tap water. He observe an old man sitting on the bench. He has a garland of Rudraksh in his hand.

"He is a very mysterious old man (बहुत चमत्कारी बाबा हैँ ये)" the benders said.

Salim is a muslim but it is beauty of India, each religion believes in each other religion. He think he must give a try. He approaches him. The old man saw him and just say "Tea".

Salim goes to bendor and bring a cup of tea to him. After drinking tea he gives his garland to him. Salim just iterate the same that old man is doing with roodraksh. Old man disappear. He goes back to bendors to give money, vendors doesn't recognize him. A newspaper guy just drop one for tea vendor, salim lift it up, the news seems old. A tea is the cost for the solution of all his problem.