Page One | Twisted Tales and Turns: A Journey through the Unexpected | Smita Das Jain

THE FIGURE IN THE CHARPOY

I was a terror in my days. No one in the village dared to come near me," the old man reminisced.

Ujjwal gave his grandfather a second look. With loose skin on a wrinkled face engulfed in cream-coloured patches, swollen eyes with blurred vision, and black teeth covered with tobacco from pipe smoke, the sixty-five-year-old looked anything but scary as he sat on the charpoy enjoying the morning sun.

Ujjwal and his parents had returned from Ara, the ancestral Indian village of Ujjwal's father, the night before. They had gone there after the demise of the young boy's grandmother.

Ujjwal resented the intrusion of a guest in his space.

"Why do I have to share my room with him?" he had asked his mother five days ago in Ara after being informed that his grandfather would henceforth be staying with them in the city.

"We don't have any other space in our two-bedroom house," Ujjwal's mother had replied.

"Then why does he have to come with us? He can continue to stay here."

"He won't be able to stay alone. Someone has to look after him after your grandmother's death," she had explained to the six-year-old, much to his displeasure. That was that-he had to live with this forced roommate.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Readomania

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 Pages

Price : ₹314.00 (Inclusive of all taxes)

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9391800580

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9391800581

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