A wary night with shimmering moon light had
the encounter of the city, Rica with a gang of monkey. The monkeys weren’t the
ordinary ones. They came in group for shopping in midnight with the clothes
they found soaking in moonlight. One monkey was super excited. He was not he
but she. The girls are obsessed with gold so was this monkey, Ash. She took
some great leaps in her career as a professional monkey that day. Though she wasn’t
monkeying around like this always but the night has the speciality that even
Baba Rampal could not foretell.
The monkeys went on and on like they had
just finished being inspired by the Rise of the Apes flick. And suddenly they are
at a Trehan’s news laundry. They later accused their literacy level after
venturing into the laundry and not finding any clothes. Ash was disheartened to
see a strategy coming down to a tragic end. But she wanted to shop so eagerly
that she went on away from the gang. She remembered Thomas Edison and his
famous “stick-to-itiveness”.
Just a few jumps on one wall and then the
other, she developed appetite. In rush, she touched the water. Ash saw the moon
in the pond and criticised times to be so bad that even moon had come down to such
a low level. She watched the moon with devil eyes. This particular thing
annoyed the moon and it vanished from the place, turning the water to gold
polished dust! Ash drank the water and developed the touch of Midas! She rushed
excitingly to her gang to narrate whole trail to her mates and went hitting the
off-road, touching concrete, mortar, straw, dust and finally climbed on the
tree to reach the laundry of Trehan earlier. This turned everything on the way
to the dust of gold.
Soon her
happiness of so much gold had her being in a gang of wasseypur like people. She
thought of that pigeon in the movie that was always claimed to fly by one wing
and saving dignity with the other. But soon Ash remembered her Midas touch. She
now had a weapon that was as equally an ornament. A weapon of gold! What more
can a female monkey expect. Ash well defended herself just with the Midas touch
and soon every enemy was turned into gold.
Ash stared at the moon and asked what more penalties had she to pay
to meet her gang, her family. The gold had rushed on to her but she wasn’t too
desperate for shopping than to meet her gang. She soon found way to her place
on the tree and was afraid of touching her house tree as it would also turn to
gold. She had a doubt. She could live in the home made up of gold. But she had
made a sweet home on that tree and it was there she gave birth to baby monkey.
The tree breathes, play, live with her children while she was out to bring
food. She couldn’t let this home turn to dead gold. She took out a toy of moon
shape and asked for penance. She soon found the moon in the sky vanishing in
the day light. She was worried. She didn’t know how time fly by and the ray of
sun touched upon her house. She wiped her tears and was surprised to see that
Midas touch had disappeared! The sunlight came as a ray of surprise for her
that morning.
On the other side, in town everyone was surprised seeing the roads,
trees, dust and pond of gold! There was a huge riot like situation to rob of
gold. Ash also watched this mad rush from some distance and was relieved that
she thankfully didn’t go with gold temptation. She had saved her home, her
family and earned repute in her gang.
Soon a gang member came with the news of arrest of thieves who were
found to have a prize announcement of 2 lakhs. Ash went on with her gang
without even bothering about the amount and the credit. She chose to be called
“anonymous man-key”.
If I had the Midas touch, I had also decided to act same.
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