Home Was Not So

By Raja Sharma

Manav did not know who Mahesh was so he looked questioningly at Sohail. Sensing his curiosity, Sohail said, “He is my mother’s husband. He is a good man.”

Sohail began to look at the cars along the road. He was expecting Mahesh, his mother’s husband.

Manav began to think about Sohail. He was happy because he had his mother and father with him, living in the same house under one roof. Sensing the sadness on Sohail’s face, Manav said to him, “Summers were really good this year.”

“Yes, but nothing different from the last year,” said Sohail and hailed a white car that was coming in our direction.

Home Was Not So
Copyright
Chapter One
Chapter Two: Sohail
Chapter Three: Malini’s Marriage
Chapter Four: Zoo
Behind the Ruins
Chapter One: Strange Invitation
Chapter Two: Meeting with the Queen
Chapter Three: The Palace
Chapter Four: After the Dinner

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Apr 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310731013

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Home Was Not So

Raja Sharma

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Home Was Not So

Raja Sharma

Copyright@2014 Raja Sharma

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Chapter One

How expectantly we used to wait for the last day of the year at college! Whole year we had struggled hard to understand the things taught by our teachers. However, I was sure that I had done well in my final exam.

So eventually, the last day of the college arrived. There was a lot of hustle-bustle along the corridors of the college. The garden and lawns were teeming with people. The students were happy because they were going home, the teachers were also happy because their students had done well, and the visitors were also happy because they had arrived to take their wards away from the college. Everything seemed to be colorful that day: no discipline, no fear of the teachers or the principal, no sound of the bell, and no long wait outside the toilets in the dormitory of the college hostel.

Manav had already paid his canteen dues. His luggage was packed. He left his hostel room and came downstairs and carried his luggage up to the main gate of the college. He came out of the college and kept his luggage on the pavement on the right side of the gate and began to wait for his mother.

He knew that his father would not be coming there to pick him because he had to work in the night shift in his company. He had told Manav that the work was necessary, so he would send Manav’s mother to the college. Manav knew that she would be driving her old car very slowly, heading in the direction of his college. He was sure that she would be praying while driving her car. A faint smile crept over his face.

There were so many unknown faces in the college campus that day. Some of them were parents of students, some were their relatives, and some others were friends and relatives. He was unable to find a single face that seemed to be known to him. He began to look around him.

Suddenly, his eyes fell on Sohail, his friend, standing at a little distance from him. Instead of going near Sohail, he shouted, Hello, Sohail!

Sohail turned in the direction of the call and saw Manav. He waved his hand from there. Manav noticed that there was neither excitement nor a smile on his face. He seemed to be quite gloomy. Manav could not resist and he lifted his bags and began to walk in the direction of Sohail.

"Who is coming to pick you? Is your daddy coming? Manav said to Sohail.

No, my dad can’t come today, he said quite politely.

Then Farjaana?

No, she is not coming. Mahesh is coming today, he said.

Manav did not know who Mahesh was so he looked questioningly at Sohail. Sensing his curiosity,