…I remember those tired red eyes far too well…she had been working on the chullha 4 the last 2 hours…cooking food for her family members…before that she was at work..taking care of an officers daughter..she worked as a house maid there…and before that..early in the morning she was in the woods area collecting woods with her mother..
Right now she was standing in front of me urging me to come along with her because she wanted to show me something…I had a lot of experience with this actually…occasionally she used to come to my place to show me all kinda stuff that she used to build..actually invent… out of absolute scrap…and today it was a weird pulley system that she had come up with to help assist her mom in pulling out water from a nearby well…the work of an absolute genius…and all that she had used in constructing it was scrap…quite impressive!!
We had tried showing her work to some school officials…(’we’ includes me and a group of my friends)…trying to get her to attend school on scholarship but it was never appreciated…1nc an HOD in a private school agreed to include a flight model of hers in their exhibition…that brought us some relief because a number of credited personalities were going to attend that exhibition…
We had participated in that exhibition to since we were representing our own school…I lot of guests took gr8 interest in that model…studied its theories..heard the presentation…but up to no result..later when our group was frantically irritated by their lack of interest we asked one of the professors what of wrong with the model…
He just smiled at us and said..:”this is india kids..just brain alone does not matter…and as 4 the model…the girl is just another dangerous idiot who happens to have a high IQ..”…
I dnt knw if I have still understood the true essence of what he meant..but probably he did have a point…
yup, perhaps i get the essence of the sentence...and yet get so confused when i see it happening in daily life, and you know what i have been privy to many such incidents. but i have a firm belief that things are getting better in our country and people are starting to support such talent and soon there will be a time when we wont have such unfortunate incidents...our education system would soon have expanded to a level where there won't be any lack of education and talent will be recognised!
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