EARTHQUAKE
M.S.Mahadevan
Q WRITE A PARAGRAPH BY DEVELOPING THE FOLLOWING HINTS:
Brij – own tea shop – roadside -meets tell incidences that took place – Molthi village with his grandmother, mother, brother and sister. – frequent tremors. One day – Pauri – buy school books – uncle’s house night -tremors – landslides – army officers – arrive Molthi. Brij and uncle – see – soldiers – clear the debris – find the bodies -last rite, – Buli missing. -searching – no hope – continued his search- see the foot -girl was alive – makeshift hospital – thank the army officer- left – disappointed – tired traveler- remembered officer -serve tea – safe journey.
EARTHQUAKE
Brii, a little boy of 17 years old, offers tea at free of cost to any of the army officers or tired travellers. On his way to his tea-shop, he looks happy and excited. He offers a tired traveller tea and tells the incident of an earthquake that killed almost all of his family four years ago. On that day Brij went to a nearby village, Pauri, to buy his school books and stayed at his uncle’s house. That night, his hometown, Molthi, was shattered by a powerful earthquake. He could just see the corpse of all his family members except his little sister, Bhuli. Everyone believed that she would have been eaten by some wild animals. But Brij felt that she should be given cremation. He requested an army officer to search. The officer brought a team of three soldiers and started removing debris, to search for the little child. Fortunately, they found Bhuli who survived 116 hours without food. Brij was very happy to see his sister alive. He didn’t even thank the officer as he never met him again. From that day, he started offering free tea to all tired travellers.
OR
Brij is a young boy having his own tea shop by the roadside. He meets a traveler and invites him to his shop and starts telling the incidencethat took place in his life. He used to stay in Molthi village with his grandmother, mother, brother and sister. One day he happened to go to the village Pauri to buy his school books.
As it had become late he stayed in his uncle’s house. That night they were experiencing frequent tremors. There was an earthquake. Their village was not far from the epicenter and hence used to experience frequent tremors. This resulted in numerous landslides and it took four days for the army officers to arrive at Molthi. Brij and his uncle were the first to arrive after the army officers. They weren’t prepared for what they had seen that day; every single house had been brought down to the ground.
The soldiers began to clear the debris to find the bodies. His uncle asked him to perform the last rite, that’s when he saw that his sister Buli was missing. Hoping to find her, he ran to the place where his house stood once and started clearing the debris and searching for his sister.
One officer, seeing this said that there isn’t any point in searching anymore since they have done their maximum and that there isn’t any hope to find anyone alive. Brij did not pay heed to him and continued his search. The officer came after ten minutes along with three more officers and started to clear the debris. On clearing the debris, after two hours they saw the foot of Brij’s sister.
The soldier exclaimed, saying the little girl was alive. He immediately wrapped her and carried her to the nearby makeshift hospital. The next day, when he went to thank the army officer, he had already left. He was very disappointed at this and whenever he used to see an army officer or a tired traveler, he remembered the officer who saved his sister’s life and would serve him tea for free as this made him very happy. In the same way, he offers this traveler also a cup of tea and when his bus arrives wishes him a safe journey.
WINDOWS WISDOM 