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with his palms, but nothing happened.The woman was filled with intensegrief and fear.The man went outside, took somewater in his palm making it concave. Thewoman threw some droplets on the radiotaking water from her fingers. They Didthis again and again, but nothinghappened. Radio was silenced forever. Thewoman burst into tears. The man tried toconsole her in unknown voice, sometimesembracing her, sometimes looking at theradio and sometimes aimlessly goingoutside and coming back.The man had dug a pit by evening.The woman was holding the radio in herhands and the man sitting knelt downnearby the pit, holding his head in hispalms. The woman handed him the radiocoming closer to him and he buried it inthe bottom of the pit. Both started fillingthe pit with mud and earth.The woman was sobbing, while slidingmud in the pit. After filling the manoverburdened it with soiled mud andtreaded with feet. The woman broughtsome white and orange coloured powderfrom the jungle and the man a piece ofslender trunk of sagaun tree. All night herubbed the slender trunk thoroughly tomake it glazy and then dug it on the place.The women started making some figuresof wild animals and insects on it by herfingers from the paste made of colouredpowder and water.fgndi •Those were the saddest hours of theirlife.....sometimes, the woman rememberedthe radio.....A voice, her progeny. No matter ifit had not taken birth from her womb.No matter if never the semen of her manfloated inside her to shape that voice,to frame the call made as of only for her.When she clasped it in her chest her breastswere not containing even a drop of milk.....voice is made of her blood,undoubtedly.....voice has the blood of a woman inits veins, the naive vanity of her existence.....voice, the love. Voice, of too manyendless heartbeats.The woman from unknown, barren,secluded, dense and ghostly dark forestsof our times....A woman crying with broken hearton the grave of the voice.The government again called herpeople and ordered them to go in to thejungle, this time again to those peoplewhom they had given the radio. They mustfind out how much the people of jungleunderstood the world outside and whatchanges came through the radio in theirlives. Agents of government had been givenforms and papers to gather, fill and submitthe correct information regarding thisproject.That day, the outside man came verysecretly nearby the area of the man andthe woman. He sat along with in betweenApril-June 2013 :: 125