AN EXPRESSION OF GRATEFULNESS

Before I proceed to write my next article on this blog I sincerely require to express my gratefulness to a stranger co-passanger some three to four days ago without whose co-operation I might have suffered serious consequences on my health front. Kudos to his sense of humanity that worked without any request of help from my side.

It was the auspicious afternoon of MAHA ASHTMEE ( DURGA POOJA ) when I started from Kolkata to Tatanagar by Geetanjali Express ( a superfast train) and it was when the train was approaching Tatanagar I started feeling sick. As I had to rush to Ranchi I booked a ticket in a luxary bus & occupied my seat. It was to take an hour & a half to start. My condition gradually deteriorated & I was compelled to drop my journey.

What next happened to me is not at all significant. Significant for me is to remember the young man, a co-passanger sitting by my side, and to thank him from the core of my heart who extended all his co-operation and help that was needed to me --- even without being asked for ! His physical body was also made of usual blood, muscles & bones like all of us. And it was only at the time of taking departure from me ( as the bus had started ) when, replying to my question, he replied, " I am Rizwan. "

For many of my friends, relatives & my own Mumma he was a Moselman. I want to ask you who he was. Who should he be ? A Moselman ? A Hindu ? A Christian ?

-----Savitree