An Umbrella

pink with a white dots umbrella

Postmortem school bag of the girl says she misses an important aspect of day to day life "an UmBRellA" . She was standing there in a statue mode with hanuman chalisa in her mind which is the only hope now to save it from THE MOUSTACHE MAN on the left and THE BINDI WOMAN on the right.

"This happens third time , after waterbottle and instrument box incidents.How you can  be so careless ? How? For ur benefits am taking old frooti , mazza bottles to my work place but given you 300 cost rs thermus so that water remains cool throughout school hours in this summer season. But you ..." the man in the Moustache goes to take bath reamaining the conversation incomplete.The poor girl become happy but this does not last for long because now the woman in the Bindi started.
" where is your mind in the school , if on the BOYS , do tell me , i will tell my father to find a boy for you and get married as soon as possible. In your age i was so splendour dat i took care of each and every stuff. In the morning i  used tovclean my room , help my amma in the kitchen, took care of my long silky hairs. Look at today generation girls fixy cut, blunt, laser etc etc.HUh........

The small girl in the 6 th class can bear everything but the word MARRIAGE has shattered her. Now maulika started " hmmmmm, i am watching how you have maintained yours hairs, which is now looking like a zebra pattern . I havent told you yet but on the last parent teacher meeting  my friend vishakha misunderstood you as my grandmother, but i told her that my grandmother looks better than you"maulika completed .
The mother red danger signal BINDI on her head turns green, she was ready to escape from this conversation but she is An INDIAN MOM escaping was not in her personality, fighting till the death is her behaviour.
" oh hoo listen , maulika's father what your daughter is saying !!!am turning zebra and she is the next miss INDIA." She completed and eagerly waiting for her husband help but the reply makes her more aggressive.
" you never remain silent in the house, always murmuring now and then, even when i am taking bath,the MOTHER and the daugher both are same"father said these harsh word anawre of the results.
"Oh so i think you dont need food today...come hubby ..today i ll give you rice without vegetables, i am a VILASPUR daughter ."
Vilaspur is a place from where the bindi woman has arrived when she got married to the moustache man, and she always put this in conversation to remind the moustache man that she has a big family of four body builders brother. Now the house was on the SILENT mode because the moustache man knew that to win from the lady in the conversation , you must allow her to win.

Maulika was in her room occupying a corner and was afraid whether she would get married soon, if she fails in finding "THE UMBRELLA". Her parents would connect umbrella to her study, to her future,and will think that if she cant hold a little thing how she can become anything in the future like the DOCTOR or an ENGINEER. She was eagerly waiting for the next day to come.
On the next day she gone to school and hurriedly to her class to her bench ,to her desk ,everywhere but sadness was only found. She ran to the school ground and asked a lady maid about the missing umbrella. She told her to look inside the school hall . Maulika ran there with a bullet speed but there was no umbrella of her. But a cunning smile came to her face, she looked here and there and took that black umbrella and ran to her class.

"Is this what i have given you, it was a pink umbrella with white dots ,ok!!!white dots!!!what you think your father a fool, a pink umbrella kept in the school ground for hours changes to black due to sunlight . It got tanned. Huuuuu!!!!!! " father said by directly looking into her eyes.

" yup thats the umbrella, enough is enough, you two have made my life hell, creating big big issues on small small matters.whats if it is not mine , i found it like a coin on the road and now i am not going to return it, it is in my destiny."
Father became silent ,wanted to say something but today there was no listener . Maulika continued" you all are not doing a favour to me for my studies or purchasing waterbottles, pen ,pencil, books, raincoats, or an "UMBRELLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAA". Every parents does that . Its their duty." She gone to her room by closing the door with all noise.
The father sat there with silence all around. His moustache was no longer proudy.

At night 10 o clock , in the bedroom the MOUSTACHE man and the BINDI woman quite conversation was going on.
"I am thinking to not buy my full pant , on that place lets go to buy an umbrella for our daughter tommorow. "

"No !!!! Your full pants got hole insides ,plzz . The people around laughs at you."

" i dont care!!!! I only care about maulika and who knows while coming from school she might falls. Its the june month and a harsh sunny days. Lets go tommorow.

Maulika who was there on the door about to tell her parents that her friend Vishakha got a cycle also and you two are making a small umbrella a big issue. But now her legs stopped and eyes was full of tears.
She now realised that the MOUSTACHE MAN & THE BINDI WOMAN are the only umbrellas of her life made in the gods market who will protect her from the violent storms, harsh sunlight , harmful ultraviolet rays in the future. Her hatred suddenly changes to love.