fहndi - Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya

discarded and alone, not too far from theshelter.The radio was speaking continuously,It spoke whole night and day. Nextmorning a stormy wind with rain first filledthe whole jungle with dust and dry leavesand then wet it up to all twigs and tricklingrivulets from leaves, radio was speaking.The whole night trees were makingswishing sound waving in winds and theman and the woman slept embracing eachother, radio was still speaking. Fire wasburning with bursts, radio was speaking.Next day both of them went deep in forestto subside their hunger and came after twodays, radio was still speaking....the woman felt pity for the radio.The woman had seen those animalsso many times sitting calmly and growlingin a low tone, sometimes wounded andsometimes left out of their groups. She feltmercy for them. The woman had no issue.She had seen infants and had an idea thatsome day it will come out from her belly.She waited, but it hadn't come yet. Theradio seemed something like a small bodyof flesh and blood made from man andwoman.She had a half eaten prey they got fromthe forest. She placed a piece of meat infront of the radio, believing that aftersometime it will eat it and calm down.But nothing happened. The radio keptspeaking.The woman became impatient. Shestarted sitting near the radio for a while.fgndi •The man gazed at her sitting afar. Somany times the woman touched the radio,cuddled it, tried fondling it in a low tone—la,la,la, but the radio was still speaking.She rolled about sleeping near her man,man tried again and again embracing her,but she got herself detached from him,sitting on her knees hearing the voices ofradio coming from dark silence and slightlyblowing winds from outside the shelter.The man also awakened, both of thempassed the whole night without even a dropof sleep.One night the man heard the womancalling—la,la,la...’, with choking throat,pointing her index finger towards outsidedark, towards radio. The man came inopen, picked a burning wood from fire,came close to-the radio, gazed at it andsuddenly threw out the wood in forest andscreamed aloud. He shrieked again andagain and the voice which was yet not adialect echoed in the jungle, trembledbetween the land and the sky. Silence ofnight and wild animals heard the screamingsound cautiously with erect keen ears.The radio was speaking, speaking inobscured low tones, it sang and madedistinguished voices, the voices of man andwoman, the voices as of their own.The man and woman felt an appetite.They went deep in to the jungle, into thedeepest deep.There was continuous raining for threedays. The whole jungle became wet andTress were dripping. The shelter flowed.April-June 2013 :: 123