Kabuliwala

When we talk about school life there is always choke in mentioning about anything related to What was taught, and for a major part it was not the content but the delivery of the content which has created these bad memories.

Now Why am i referring to these ideas randomly ? In this week's KBC there was a reference to a story which kindles up the deep lying fears and emotions within me every time i read it. It is the famous "Kabuliwalla" written by Rabindranath Tagore. The synopsis of the story is it talks about an honest man whose single drive to live in life is his daughter and for her future he comes to an alien land to make a living by selling items in the streets of Calcutta.. He befriends a girl who is of his Daughter's age who begins to admire him as her father is not able to spend time with her. In an effort to gain some money to go back home to his daughter he gets angry with a rude customer and stabs him. He accepts his guilt in court, Once he completes his sentence he sees the world has changed and the little girl is ready to be married and with the gracious money given by the girl's father he starts back to his homeland hoping his daughter would remember him.

  I get choked every time i read read it. This story talks about two unadulterated pure things in the world

1) The innocence of a child

2) The Worth of Life for everyone

The second one is the most critical thing for us in life where we always should see if we can think of the consequences and act on it than on blind rages which hurt everyone around us