Essays

Introduction. Lire is a mixture of laughter and tears- joys and Sorrows. There are events of both light (happiness) and shadow (Sorrow) in life.

My saddest day. The 22nd June, 1989 is the saddest day in my life. Oil this day a number of sad events look place. I can never forget this day. It is the blackest sport in my memory.

What happened on the saddest day? I had taken the inter examination. Some of the papers were quite stiff. I had not fared well in Mathematics. I have never been good at mathematics I was wait in tor that result with teat. On this day the saddest one in my life" my result was to be declared. I looked at the result my fears only turner out to be too true. My roll number was missing in the list of successful students. My old father was then ill. He had been suffering from high blood pressure. The- news of my failure shocked him- He was almost speechless with sorrow,

I bought of my poor old man. He expected much of me. I was once the brightest boy in the school. Ml my teachers spoke highly of me. But Mathematics had let me down.

Another misfortune. It appears as if circumstances. Conspired together to undo me. Fate had turned against me. There was still another shock in store for me. And the whole family. Elder brother was employed in Civil Supplies.  He was the head clerk in the office. He had been suspended on the aliened charge of corruption. It was alleged that lie had Liken bribes from the people. He was not on good terms with the boss. He made out a case against him. (In his report he was suspended

An inquiry of the police into the alleged charges against my brother was held. We were sure that in\ brothers innocence would he proved. There was not much evidence against him. But the police collected a mass of lies against my brother. All false evidence was cleverly put up before the magistrate. We thought that the learned magistrate would see through the game and knew the truth. But no, even the magistrate was befooled by the crooked evidence of the police.

It was on this day al about 8 p.m. that we received a telegram. When I opened the envelope, my ailing father impatiently enquired of the contents. With tears in my eyes, I told my father that it   was the dismissal order of my brother. My father was wild with grief. My brother was the only hre.id-earner in the family. We all depended on his earnings for our very life.

The shock was too severe for my old sick father to hear. He died under it. The whole family wailed. My two younger brothers and a sister were beside themselves with grid. They wept bitterly. The people of the village came lo sympathies with us in our tragedy. This indeed was the saddest day in my life.