John Jones and
Tales From Far Away
Introduction
Sefali was thinking of her son, Ritwick, she had
managed to put him through school and college, it had been hard work, what with
very little income she didn’t want her son to go without quality
education. When he had been born, Guruji
had told her,”This one will bring you a lot of happiness.” Despite her overpowering cynicism for life, she
still believed in God and had allowed this thought to keep her alive for the
next 20 years or so.
Ritwick had managed a job of an intern with SAIL, Rourkela , a job finally ! so was her wayward son finally growing up, maybe Guruji had been right, her son could be her passport to freedom. She immediately halted her string of thoughts for she had seen so many dreams fall by wayside. Tough times hadn’t stopped Sefali from dreaming, she wasn’t vocal about her dreams, she would wait till it happened, till he was actually earning the Rs 13500/- he had been promised at Rourkela.
She wanted to tell her son so many things, from her
past, about who his father was and how she had endured the hardships to get her
family to this stage. She had endured
hardships all her life but now had a group of friends who were her peer
support, she would stay with them till her son was old enough to understand
what she had to tell him.
"You Don’t Know What Sells in this World,
where Cynicism is the King.”
The Road Map to Freedom
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Sefali
Marik and her group of friends wanted to buy Solar Lanterns for their homes,
but they wanted Lanterns designed for their need, something special, made for
them, “It’s all in the design, pay for the design,” I said to my colleague in
West Bengal. We were willing to invest
our energies in designing a new Solar Lantern, it would cost a shade over Rs
1600/- and would be well worth the investment.
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