The Betrayal

Monday 18 August 2014

The Betrayal

The Betrayal
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You work in a town thousand miles away from your home in a remote foreign nation. You want the best for your family and are willing to suffer hardships for it.
However, one fine day, while you're away, your family is attacked by the 'Moghul' gang from neighborhood.
First your entire family is brutally assaulted, your father is tied up and let to starve. Your mother is forced into bonded labour and your sister is humiliated to become their slave. Needles to say them goons take over your entire house and start living there comfortably. In years to come they ill treat everyone in your family and drive them to their painful death beds. No one in the area dares say a word.

Ten years later you return home and are shocked to find the state of your house. You're angered when an acquaintance gives you a coarse account of what happened.
You rush to the police station at once and ask to file a case. A week later the police calls you in and says the issue has been dealt with. Bewildered and curious you open the file and read the statement of the local watchmen - sole witness of the entire account.

"The family in the third Street was abandoned by its breadwinner. It was then that the benevolent Moghuls came forward to support the family. They faithfully served the family like their own. The father passed away due to illness... but not before giving the Moghuls his entire property in gratitude for their help. The mother, equally obliged with their kind favours, vowed to serve the moghuls for life. The sister was lucky to find such a nice groom and lived happily with moghul leader, ever after. Why, they even rebuilt the house!
In short, the moghuls were a blessing for that desperate family in need"

You're now dumbfounded and shocked with indignation. You know that nothing could be far from truth. You return to your locality to confront the watchman. How could he ? You trusted him !!
But before you ask him anything, you find he's already there with rest of the neighborhood- accusing you of trying to spoil the peace in the area. People abuse and angrily shove you out. But the heartbreaking blow comes not from the angry peace-loving men but from your own nine year old nephew who refuses to hear about his mother's r*pe, ten years ago..or the fact that he was a result of it.
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This is the story of our country, our society, its present and the past.
The 'watchman' is our media, our historians and our academicia ( the communists)- the very people whom we trusted with our nation, its history and its heritage. However, all they did was show invaders as saviours, criminals as benevolent, atrocities as blessings and half truths as facts.
The peace lovers, as you might have understood, are misguided pseudo-secular people of our country who know nothing but have an opinion on everything.

Who the minor abusive nephew is, is left to your guess.

ShankhNaad

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