PXylem

NEW DELHI,INDIA

Assam,Silchar
Location in small village

Jotting down from my diary which I wrote decades ago............

Near about 50 years ago the shape of our society is out of imagination of present day generation; and they may only strangely assessed the tale stories of happenings at that period of time. The change of the society is attributed to the development of infrastructure in every spheres of our life, education, mass communication, well connectivity of villages with nearby towns or cities.

Though the glimpse of modernity knocked every doors of our life yet I never forget one of the incident related of devils.

In the early 60s it was a ritual of our society, boys and girls of the village playing various types of games at afternoon after taking lunch and dinner. While at night it gets limited to adjacent neighbors only. The neighbours had a common courtyard where we all used to play day in and out.

It was our routine when elders went on to sleep after dinner we all boys and girls assembled together in the courtyard and start playing games of our choice, all happening in the absence of now ubiquitous looking electricity. At that time electricity was unheard thing. If there was any foreign thing that was visible, it was transistor. There were three or four transistors if one adds five or six adjoining villages.

One day, after playing so many games we noticed that some tiny boys with maximum 2ft height came from every directions of nearby bushes assembled in the courtyard. On seeing the incoming flux of tiny devils the inmates rushed inside the house with fear by leaving me in the opposite side of the courtyard alone.

Being kept alone I noticed that the courtyard was fully packed by tiny necked devils of having same height and every one possessed small brass cymbals in their hands. They began dancing by beating cymbals and generated a whispering mild noise through their mouth. The magnitude of their noise and the sound of cymbals were so mild that one could not heard the same from a distance of 10 ft.

After dancing three or four minutes in the courtyard the gatherings of devils disappeared themselves by entering nearby bushes. And when the courtyard was fully evacuated I entered the house and narrated the whole story to my inmates.

From where did they come? And where did they go? What were they doing? Even after decades I don’t find any answer. But it was something, which I believe those reading it cannot digest. But it is true to the salt.

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