THE INDIAN COMMENTATOR

Kalakar Colony   Round-2   Chapter 11 Roohi and Krishna Read Chapter-10  here “How did you find me, Krishna?” Roohi was eager. “Run,” he said. “Tell me how you found me,” she insisted. “Run,” the young man only said. The sun was red hot and the road was a black oven fuming with vengeance. The road seemed to be a forgotten bypass to some old work site. Roohi felt her soft paws heating up inside the flat-black school shoes. “Where are we going Krishna?” Roohi mumbled. Krishna, this time, did not say a word. Roohi felt safe in the tight grip on her right arm. The young man with a single shiny metal earring didn’t seem to give up on her, when no one else showed signs of looking for Roohi. “No one wants me Krishna,” Roohi managed to utter through a hardened throat and shivering lips. Roohi’s mind wandered into a dream she had. The crowd of people moving away. Then she thought about the photographer. Then the man with the fair ...

Read the previous chapter here : Kalakaar Colon y Roohi clung onto the woman. The tattoo on her right hand was beautiful. Roohi knew where she wanted to go, but she didn’t know where the bike was heading. There was no way she was going to tell Jennifer she is confused about the turns they took; left to the statue, right to the traffic circle, and all the way straight to the Park Road. “Jennifer, could you please stop the bike, let me walk my way to grandpa’s home?” no way . Roohi thought. Roohi loved parks. But Park Road wasn’t closer to any park. It was called Park Road that was all. There was something stupid about it, wasn’t it? She thought and that made her smile. “Do you really understand the extremity of the situation?” she could still hear her mother screaming at her father. “I am trying,” her father had replied. There was something about her grandpa that she loved. He made her smile and laugh. It was as if all his time was dedicated to little Roohi. She ...