Chapter 5: A Soldier's Story
Ram Mohammad Thomas was in a quiz show "Who Will Win a Billion?" and the quiz's presenter ask him one of the questions of the game: "What is the highest award given to the Indian armed forces ?" "Is ir a) Maha Vir Chakra, b) Param Vir Chakra c) Shaurya Chakra or d) Ashok Chakra ?"
Mohammad could answer the question because when he was in the chawl one war started.
He was talking with some boys and he said that war is very exciting because his employer gave a week’s holiday just because was having a war. One man said that war is very serious, then they learnt that he was an old soldier, his name was Balwant Singh and he was in the war in 1971.
He said that in the same day his wife wrote that his first son had been born, but he went to the war to fight for his country and when everybody gave up and started ran away, he continued fighting and then he destroyed the enemies.
The next day a man came to collect money for a soldiers’ charity and they ask about the 1971 war, the war that Balwant said, and they said the Balwant’s story. The man said that Balwant is a lier, he ran away of the war because his son had been born, everything that he said is a lie and he should be in prison.
Next this Balwant left the chawl.
Chapter 6: A brother’s promise
One day a new family went in the chawl. The family was the new neighbours of Thomas.
Thomas came out of his room and saw a short man, the wife of the man and the daughter of the man. The man put his wife and his daughter in his room and closed the door. Then he said to Thomas that they had been in the chawl only few days.
He discovered that the man was a astronomer and he learn a lot of things to his daughter about this.
He heard the man talking with his family that he didn’t want they talking with their neighbours and if they talk with the street boys in the room next to their rooms, he will hit they.
One day the man’s daughter came in the chawl with one little cat and the man said to her called the cat Pluto because the cat is small and Pluto is the smallest planet and the cat called Pluto.
The man hit a lot of his wife and his daughter. One time, he had thrown a boiling cup of tea at his wife. Gudiya (his daughter) had tried to get in front of her mother, but the tea had burnt her face, then Gudiya have to went to the hospital.
Her mother told to Thomas that Gudiya was feeling alone and asked Thomas to visited her.
They talked a lot of what had happened and Gudiya said to Thomas looked after Pluto (her cat) ultil she return home, and said too that Thomas is like a brother to her.
Thomas said that he looked after Pluto and held Gudiay’s hand very tightly.
When Gudiay left the hospital his father his her and her mother again, and Thomas said to her that her father will never hit she again, and said “That is a Brother’s promise”.
The next night Gudiay’s father returned from work and climbed the stairs to the first floor, when he was next to the weak wooden railing, Thomas ran at him from behind and pushed him agains the railing, and it broke. Gudiay’s father fell to the ground below, he landed face-down and didn’t move.
Thomas with fear of the police, ran away without said goodbye to anyone and got on a train to Delhi.
The quiz's presenter ask him other question of the game: “Which is the smallest planet? It is a) Pluto b) Mars c)Neptune or d) Mercury?”
And because Gudiya he knew that the correct answer was a) Pluto.
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