NANI'S HOME PART 5

Preeti: Skeleton, what is that?

Ram: It is lots of bones. People throw their dead animals in that place. The dead animal’s skin and other body parts decay or eaten by dog or other animals then only bones remain. The bones are called skeleton.

Raj: You mean to say. We will become skeleton, when we will die.

Preeti: We will but we will be buried. And no one will dig our buried body.

Shyam: Some people are burned after their death; I saw when I went to take a bath in the Ganga River.

They all now reached to mango’s garden.

Raj said, "It is our garden. We used to come here for play and some time pluck mangoes. There are mostly mangoes tree but some is blackberry and cluster fig."

Shyam: Bhaiya, can I climb on the tree? There are some small unripe mangos.

Ram: No, you are too small to climb. I can pluck this for you with a stone.

Ram throws a stone on the tree. It did not hit the mango. He again tried to hit the mango, with a wood. It hit the mango. The mango fell on earth everyone started searching for it. Preeti find it and she ate it.

Shyam started weeping saying that Bhaiya plugged it for me.

Preeti said, “I found it so I eat it.”

Ram: Don’t worry. I will pluck some more mangoes for you and Raj.

Ram again tried and plugged some more mangos for them.

They all ate unripe mangoes. Preeti asked everyone to go back as it was growing dark. They all saw monkeys on the tree. Shyam feared and rushed to go back. They all rushed and stopped near the pond. They throw some stones on the pond. They all came back home.

Preeti picked some old album. she did not want all of them to be bore. She asked Ram and Shyam to see the album.

Ram: It is very old.

Preeti: Yes, here are the pictures of our mother and father’s marriage.

Ram: See, your father and mother was so small.

They saw all the albums. Then mami asked them to take dinner.

Shyam asked, “What did you cook mami?”

Mami said, "Alloo Ki kachaudi with coriander and mint chutney. You can take curd if you feel the food is spicy."

Shyam: I like the most aloo ki kachaudi and cold cold dahi.

Mami asked everyone to wash hands and have seat.

Preeti took mate and unfold it on the floor.

Raj went to call his grandfather and mother for dinner. They all sat, them Raj and Preeti took plates and bowls. Preeti also took one plate which was filled with salad of onion and tomato.