“Yes, my sister failed. Go and tell the whole society.” This storyteller takes you back to school and the pressure of dealing with exams.
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00:00For my graduation, I wore a matching dress with my friends
00:03and I even brought a dress to go.
00:05How will I go to the bus stand?
00:07How will I sit in class with those juniors whom I used to flirt with?
00:11I jumped and reached those aunties
00:13who were probably talking to us in a crowd.
00:15I said to them,
00:16Yes!
00:17My sister has failed.
00:18Go and spread this in the entire society.
00:24If you want to see tension,
00:26then you don't need to go to North Korea or the US
00:28or the India-Pakistan border.
00:30You just need to go to that house
00:32where kids are giving board exams.
00:34In the month of March,
00:35our house was in the same situation.
00:37My sister had a board exam
00:38and I had to appear in it.
00:40A board exam is not an exam.
00:42It is a festival that lasts for two months
00:44in which a well of death is dug
00:46which is called an examination center.
00:48And kids are forced into it like stunt artists.
00:51According to the percentage of children,
00:53people judge the upbringing of parents very easily.
00:57Because of all this,
00:58kids are so tensed
00:59that they see only that last law.
01:01That last law is the last exam.
01:03They come and somehow get rid of this curse.
01:06My sister's last exam was of physics.
01:08And see the irony
01:09that in which there are chapters
01:11of big electricity generation,
01:13two days before that,
01:14there was no electricity in our house.
01:16The inverter failed
01:17and my sister literally
01:18had to burn the midnight oil
01:19in the light of a lantern.
01:21Somehow she finished her physics exam
01:23and we happily
01:25started waiting for her results
01:26in the month of June.
01:28What will be the result?
01:29It's not you,
01:30it's your family,
01:31it's your society that decides.
01:32So for them,
01:33the first division was considered.
01:34At that time,
01:35the result was not on the internet.
01:36It used to come in a newspaper
01:37in which the division was written
01:38in front of the roll number.
01:40In that month of June,
01:41after standing in the heat for a long time,
01:43suddenly it rained.
01:45At 11 o'clock at night,
01:46I took that newspaper
01:47and came home
01:48and wrapped it around that wet newspaper
01:50and started looking.
01:51I reached that page
01:52where their roll number was written.
01:54Before that,
01:55there was a lot of second division
01:56and after that,
01:57first division.
01:58But didi?
01:59Didi's number?
02:00Didi's number was not there.
02:01Papa said,
02:02look carefully.
02:03Mom started worshipping God
02:04and didi
02:05went to a wall
02:06and stood there.
02:08I tried for a long time
02:09and felt like
02:10I should write the division
02:11in front of the roll number
02:12and finish the matter
02:13but I could not do that.
02:14The smell of that drying newspaper
02:16went into my sister's eyes
02:17and from there,
02:18it came to her cheeks.
02:20Although she had given the exam,
02:21the whole house had failed.
02:23We did not know
02:24how to say this.
02:26And the next day,
02:27the news in the newspaper
02:28in which the children
02:29committed suicide,
02:30committed suicide,
02:31I started looking for it,
02:32hiding it
02:33and throwing it away.
02:36Didi left the house
02:38and we stopped
02:39leaving her alone.
02:42My one wish was going to be fulfilled
02:44that I would get new books.
02:46But I did not want
02:47if I get them like this.
02:48I wanted those books
02:49in which the level of irritation
02:50is underlined,
02:51in which a dry rose is kept,
02:54in which a leaf of knowledge is kept
02:55and in which sometimes
02:56with the names of Shweta and Parul,
02:58their letters are cut
02:59and played the game
03:00of Love, Hate, Adore.
03:03Then that unfortunate day came
03:04when Didi had to wear
03:05the school dress and go.
03:08We did not know
03:09how to tell her
03:10to wear the uniform.
03:11For graduation,
03:12she had worn
03:13the matching dress
03:14with her friends
03:15and brought the dress
03:16to go.
03:17How?
03:18How would she go to the bus stand?
03:19How would she sit in the class
03:20with those juniors
03:21whom she used to flirt with?
03:22And even if she did all this,
03:23because of frustration,
03:24she did not return home.
03:26So?
03:28That morning,
03:29that morning of July,
03:31when Didi tried
03:32to open the door,
03:34but she could not open it.
03:35She sat on a sofa nearby.
03:36No one said anything to her.
03:38And in the night,
03:39she slept on the same sofa
03:40wearing the school dress.
03:41The next morning,
03:42my mother told me
03:43to drop Didi to the bus stand.
03:44I always used to get irritated.
03:46But today,
03:47I was not irritated.
03:48I was scared.
03:50Somehow,
03:51I dared to go to the gate.
03:53Before going to the office,
03:54I put my hand on her head
03:56and whispered something
03:57in her ear.
03:58Didi got up
03:59and maybe because of me
04:00or my father,
04:01she was able to dare
04:02to open the gate.
04:03She put her first foot
04:04on the road
04:05and closed her eyes
04:06and accepted her
04:07failure and defeat.
04:08Now we started
04:09walking towards the bus stand.
04:10The aunts standing nearby
04:11were sweeping.
04:12The grandfather
04:13who always used to go
04:14from the window
04:15and the uncle
04:16who used to take a bag
04:17and leave for the office
04:18everyday,
04:19were walking very slowly
04:20today.
04:21We felt
04:22that this road
04:23should be cut
04:24somehow.
04:25And we were walking
04:26on this road
04:27while closing our eyes.
04:28We did not have the courage
04:29to look up
04:30and reach the place
04:31where our special people
04:32could not see us.
04:33Didi pulled me
04:34and pushed me.
04:35And because of her
04:36tears falling from her eyes,
04:37my T-shirt
04:38and the oil
04:39on my head
04:40started spoiling
04:41her bus shirt.
04:42I told her,
04:43Didi,
04:45I will not be able
04:46to walk on this road.
04:47I don't want to walk
04:48on this road anymore.
04:49Our last fear
04:50was proving to be
04:51true now.
04:52The school bus
04:53had arrived
04:54and I thought
04:55I should stop them.
04:56But she said
04:57something while
04:58leaving my hand.
04:59I got confused.
05:00I was decoding her
05:01that while getting
05:02on the bus
05:03full of juniors,
05:04she reached the seat
05:05which is the longest
05:06and the last
05:07but usually
05:08only those people
05:09sit there
05:10with whom no one
05:11sits.
05:12She took her hand
05:13and said,
05:14I won't go anywhere
05:15until I get my
05:16600 rupees.
05:17She kept her hand
05:18on the big window
05:19like this
05:20and we both
05:21started laughing
05:22and crying
05:23slowly
05:24while looking
05:25at each other.
05:26It felt like
05:27we had
05:28washed away
05:29that fear
05:30with tears.
05:31Now I was
05:32able to understand
05:33her.
05:34I jumped
05:35and reached
05:36those ladies
05:37who were
05:38probably
05:39talking to us
05:40in a crowd.
05:41I told them,
05:42she gave me
05:43very bad looks
05:44and a thousand
05:45abuses.
05:46I moved ahead
05:47and then turned around.
05:48I said the same thing
05:49which my dad
05:50said to me
05:51while getting
05:52on the bus
05:53with my sister.
05:54Instead of
05:55being a failure,
05:56it's better to
05:57try and fail
05:58a thousand times.
05:59Isn't it?