~ Our Cute Neighbors…~

The two kiddos are new to my vicinity, their innocence is captivating, as they always say , children are an epitome of Godly presence – for their simplicity and noble thoughts is what makes them class apart in every sense. These two kids have become the talk of the town for one good reason and that is that both of them are twins – one is a girl and other is boy, they both loiter around in and around an under construction building that their parents are working on the whole day.

The pure innocence of their existence makes them friendly to various gentry passing through the aisle of our street, calling them by various names. The genre ‘Beta’, ‘Beti’ is a common voice that we hear the whole day as they play with gods natural toys – sand oil and pebbles which is part of the construction material – they make their own zig-zag designs and also fight over it as two kids would have. 

Their mother is protective of both of them, considering their age and chirpy nature – now that both have them have learnt to walk – their crawling days are over, the motherly love sometimes gets over them and the reprimand over any kiddo-nonsense that they do is punished, though the severity is not much, considering their age.

They are learning not speak but know their names by hard – they actually have a synonymous names which have been carefully crafted to be spelled in one go – ‘Radha’ and ’Kishen’, the father smiles when asked about the duo’s names – for him it was easy to spell as he has the gut feeling of these souls as true blessings. “Radha is elder to Kishen by 2 mins” he speaks , “ She is naughty and also has a angry attitude towards things, just like his mother.” – knowingly fully well that his wife is not alongside, the husband takes the leverage to spell these words in gossip.

The family has had a nomadic life although, but they originally hail from Rajasthan. Manoj – as the father likes to call himself came to Delhi almost 10 years ago to find work and settlement but was not able to get what he had aimed for, as he tells me, he is a 10^th pass but did not study beyond for the reasons best known to him.
This folly has now has been well understood and he certainly wants his kids to study as much as he is able to provide them the resources for education – as he sees ‘Big Babus’ with big cars in the city, all of them are educated and have made their mark through ‘ Padai-Likhai’ (education), he observes.

It is lunch time now and they have their staple diet of Chappatis and a vegetable which gets cooked in a makeshift kitchen that his wife has established in a 10X10 shanty – they sleep and cook in the same tent and that would be their ‘Sweet Home’ till the builder project is over in almost 1.5 years time, till then I will be a mute witness and a friend to these cute little souls who I happen to meet in my lifetime, who knows after they are gone, we would ever meet again…the wanderers as they are, I wish they have a stable home where I can see them more often… I strongly intuit that   someone is surely listening….