This hindi poetry titled बिना आवाज़ की चीख़ is a reflection inspired by people who mask their emotions, as if screaming in silence
This hindi poetry titled बिना आवाज़ की चीख़ is a reflection inspired by people who mask their emotions, as if screaming in silence, to prevent others from noticing their pain and state of mind. We all know one or more such people around us!
English Version: The Silent Scream
the deep silence of the night was suddenly broken,
someone somewhere, screamed in silence
there is always someone around, who goes through this
This short story is about a girl who was a pillar of strength but wondered if being strong was a good thing. Read to see how it ends!
This short story is based on real events and the echoes in my mind after hearing this story, transformed themselves into words which make this story.
She returned home from the hospital amidst the stillness of the afternoon. This weekly visit was an irritating necessity.
Her home was an eleventh-floor apartment in a posh society, easily worth a couple of crores. It never mattered much to her. Money, she thought was a useless pursuit, like relationships, love, and life. She liked these lines from a blog she had read recently
She had a comforting relationship with her parents and was living with them since her divorce a decade ago. She was strong, something she had learnt to be. Though sometimes she wondered if strength was a good thing.
She had found solace in her fitness regime. Last week, she invited an evening walk acquaintance, “Join me at the gym, noon every day. I’ve shed 10 kgs already.”
She rested for a while after coming back home from the hospital, and then engaged in a conversation with her parents. It was brief and she responded to their queries with a detachment in her tone. “What did the doctor say?” her parents asked. “Usual, he asked me how I was feeling”, she replied. Any changes in medication? They inquired. “No, the usual” she dismissed. She was used to the anxiety in her parents’ voice and always presented a calm face in front of them.
Her parents were murmuring to each other and suddenly they heard a piercing scream followed by a deafening thud. The echoes of the scream and the words lingered in their mind, “I’ll be in the balcony”, she had told them.
This is a story of a man who enters his house and sees something so astonishing and unbelievable that he collapses…
It was a mayhem when he entered his house. His daughter was wailing, and his wife was inconsolable, echoes of cries filled the room. His heart sank as he braced himself to hear a terrible news. He felt nauseous and his hazy eyes drifted to a lifeless body lying on the floor, draped in a white cloth.
Devasted, he dreaded going near it and wanted to run away, wishing it never happened. His throat went dry, but he painfully mustered the courage to uncover its face. As he moved closer, a whirlwind of thoughts swirled in his mind, leaving him incoherent. With trembling hands, he slowly tucked away the cloth, revealing a face identical to his own. Shaken to the core, he became unconscious and collapsed.
No one came to pick him up.
Years have passed since that harrowing evening. Till date, he continues to live there as a silent observer, but no one has ever noticed him in the house.
This intriguing short story about Raju who worked as a compounder in a village hospital will leave you amazed!
Raju lived in small sleepy remote village on the outskirts of Kolkata. He could barely read or write but he knew everyone in the village by their name. He worked as a compounder at the almost dilapidated but functional village hospital, and used to usher patients to the doctor. ‘Roshan’, Kanahiya, ‘Lata Devi’, he would shout with enthusiasm. Often, he would forget the order of their arrival, but used his best judgement to maintain a decorum.
After long days of toil, he would spend the nights at the hospital, comforting the admitted patients. He was always engaged in a chit-chat, many a times he went sleepless all through the night.
One day, a medical camp was set up at the village hospital and a very renowned doctor from the city came over to consult the villagers. Raju knew he was in good health, but he couldn’t resist the opportunity to consult the esteemed doctor.
Eagerly, he arrived early at the hospital early and got the doctor’s undivided attention. Intrigued, the asked him several questions about his childhood, family, work, and friends. Convinced of his well-being, Raju dismissed any symptoms in response to doctor’s questions. A little restless, but touched by Raju’s simplicity, the doctor wrote a prescription and recommended future visits to the city. Raju felt extremely elated and thought to himself, “Doctor sahib has invited me to meet him in the city’, how lucky I am!” Triumphantly, he ogled at his prescription entire day and clutched it like a certificate of achievement from a renowned doctor.
Throughout the day, Raju was exceptionally cheerful with all patients but made sure anyone doesn’t disturb the doctor. Whenever doctor spent an extra moment with someone, he felt a tinge of jealousy and subtly signaled them to conclude swiftly. In the evening, he expressed profuse gratitude to the doctor, escorted him to his car and bid a heartfelt goodbye. Later, filled with enthusiasm, he narrated the day’s events to all the patients admitted at the hospital. Unable to sleep, he didn’t stop talking entire night.
The hospital, primarily a day care center, possessed a few empty beds. Due to lack of adequate infrastructure, overnight admissions had ceased long ago. All villagers were aware of this fact, perhaps Raju as well. But that didn’t bother him. The prescription he held with pride, as a coveted certificate indicated an advanced case of schizophrenia.
This hindi shayari of 2 lines captures the essence of life: it’s short & often surprises us, the biggest surprise is it’s end, unanticipated!
This hindi shayari of 2 lines captures the essence of life: it is short and often surprises us, and the biggest surprise is it’s end, unanticipated. I heard the news of an unexpected death of a friend’s father and it made me wonder that we spend years trying to find the meaning till the biggest surprise of this ephimeral life comes our way!
When relationships get strained with loved ones, it’s agony and hurt for everyone, but ego wins! The lines below capture the situation of a broken relationship in a family.
Thousands of people lose their loved ones in road accidents and the trauma continues to haunt them. I wrote these lines after I saw a video in which a middle aged man and woman met an accident with a truck. I couldn’t stop thinking how a few seconds changed everything for their family!
This wordplay is a reflection that quite often, we are too self-critical and most of us struggle to accept and really appreciate the compliments from others. Of course, complimenting self is even rare.
The below wordplay captures this essence. Hope it inspires you to appreciate yourself!
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