cyclonic storm on Friday, moving to the Arabian Sea. The Navy rescued eight fishermen caught in choppy waters and intensified search for others who ware missing. Both state governments have put the disaster management team on high alert as the severe cyclonic storm, lying km south of Kanyakumari, was expected to dump more rain in south Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the next hours. It was expected to move toward the Lakshadweep archipelago in the Arabian sea and hit the islands on Saturday.
Unit- A full thirty days after Ramzan comes Id. It is a glorious morning. Look at this morning’s sun. How lovely!
As if it were congratulating the world on this day of Id. The villagers are getting ready to go to the Idgah. It will be late getting back from the Idgah. A walk of three miles, meeting and greeting hundreds of people; it would be impossible to return before noon!
The boys are the happiest. Some had kept only a single fast, some not even that. Fasting is for grown-ups and old people. But the joy of the boys going to the Idgah cannot be diminished.
They were counting the days, and at last the day has arrived. Now they are impatient. Their own pockets bulge with coins, like the stomach of the pot-bellied Kubera, the Hindu God of wealth. They are forever taking the treasure out of their pockets and counting and re-counting it before putting it back.
Out of this countless hoard, they will buy countless things – toys, sweets, trumpets, balls, and much more. The happiest of all was Hamid. This boy was four or five years old, and thin and scrawny. His father had died of cholera the previous year and his mother bade farewell to the world.
Hamid now lived with his grandmother Amina, slept in her protective arms and was just as happy as ever. Hamid had no shoes on his feet and the cap on his head was soiled and tattered. Nevertheless, he was happy. Poor Amina sits in her hovel and cries.