"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."
- Anne Frank
It wasn't just simply said, "A pen is mightier than sword." As the writers hold their pens, they don't just write. They create a whole new world. A wor...
Written by Nita_Reid Winner: The WARRIORS OF INK Contest - SET 1 (Category: More than 4 years)
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What makes you question the path you choose to walk either you reach a dead-end or face an obstacle that is insurmountable.
For Avinash Singh, the obstacle came in the form of his best friend Karan's sister. The girl who held his attention from the first time he met her, she was also the one who showed him a glimpse of her world that left him questioning his world.
All it took is one wisp of a girl and her strong sense of belief that made him question everything he knew about himself. And takes him on a journey of self discovery where he finds out how blurred the lines were between right and wrong, for someone whose vision was clouded by his father's words and actions.
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Avinash Singh was driving his new bike and he should have been happy, because the gift from his father came as a surprise. Yet his mind was hung up on the familiar bruise he had seen in his sister.
Keerthi, his sister was two years older than him and got married when she turned 18, last night she came home and he had been happy to see his sister until he noticed the bruise.
He had seen the bruises in his mother often, yet he had accepted that such events weren't under his control not when his mother continued to make excuses for his father and not when his father was always quick to anger.
The first time he interfered had been when he was ten and his father backhanded his mother, because she spilled tea on him.
"Don't hit mom. Please," he spoke up still quaking in fear, but his mother had been quick to shush him, told him it was her fault just like every other time. And so he gave up interfering because in the end adults never listened to kids.
He interfered again when he was sixteen and this time his father hit his sister, because she dared to ask his permission for attending college.
"A girl's place is at home," had been his father verdict, he tried to tell his dad that his friends from school has sisters who were in college, but his father's answer had been that he knows what's best for his kids.
And it was the same reason his father gave him, when he made his sister marry someone against her will, his mother couldn't interfere anymore as she died the year before and his father beat the submission out of his sister, so the day before the wedding he marched into his sister's room to ask her if she wants to escape.
