fहndi - Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya

Broken bamboos and thatches strewed allover. While the rain stopped, for almosttwo days wild dogs and jackals made theshelter their home, chewing bones andeating flesh. After five days it was the manwho came first, followed by the woman.The woman had a long piece of leg meatgripped and hanging in her hand. The mansuddenly started shooting those wild dogs,holding spear in both his hands above head,making mysterious shrieks. The two wilddogs were barking again and again on him,jumping towards him, growling, butreceding and at last the man won, the wilddogs left his area. The man squatted nearbyhis demolished shelter.The woman came suddenly close tothe radio while looking at jackals and wilddogs running afar. God knows whathappened to her gazing at those wildanimals barking, voraciously gulping meatand chewing bone running towards forest,she suddenly ran close to the radio, heldit up and embraced it to her breast. Theman also came there and hugged thewoman. A low tone obscure voice wascoming from the radio clasped betweenthe naked chests of the man and thewoman.The radio was singing in a murmuringtone. A sound coming out from the depthof an unknown zone and the beat takingit the right way was vibrating slightly herthick black skin. The sound out ofperforated metal plate was meltingsomewhere in the deep. Something wasgetting intoned under the skin. Radiostopped a bit, murmured, picked the righttone, some new melody arose, some newvoice melted and the metal plate shivereda bit. The woman felt as some unknowninfant's fingers are running on her breastholding her calmly. She looked at themoaning jungle spellbound. A tiny dropemerged in her eyes. The man wassmilingly looking at her.She clasped radio in her arms for along time. The man started making shelter.She was eyeing man with love holding theradio in her arms.All the night passed away.The next day also passed away.The shelter was erected again. The manburnt wood to make fire. Soiled woodburnt with little fire and much fume. Thewoman baked the leg piece of prey. Bothof them swallowed it up to full satisfactionof hunger and came in the radio also camewith the woman. Both slept and the radio,as it was, continuously singing in low tone.A terrifying incident happened thatnight.Late night the woman awaked the man.She was holding the radio. The radio wassilent. It was saying nothing. The womanwas waving the radio in her hands, takingit up and down, clasping it to her chestagain and again, but the radio was mumb,nothing coming out of it. The womanbecame perplexed, looking at the man withoverspread eyes, shaking his shoulders todo something. The man patted it slightly124 :: April-June 2013fgndi •