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Vsuresh Posted 13 years ago
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While I was in class 12, I remember having a story in the English supplementary reader, of love which is very different from from all love -at –first sight accounts of all times: A young man develops love for a blind young lady whom he sees only for a short while at a train station.
The name of the story is The Train Stops at Shamli. I think the name of the train station where he sees the young lady must be Shamli and that is why the story is named so.
The story goes like this: A young man visits his hometown at least twice a month. Shamli is one of the stations the train he travels stops in between. While at one such occasion he happens to spot this lady sitting all alone in one corner of the station, which seemed not to be very busy usually. The lady appeared to be blind as she could not be seen any way affected by what was going on around. The moment the young man sees this lady through the train window he feels a strong attraction for her.
Thereafter, in his every subsequent journey the moment the train reaches Shamli, his eyes search only for this lady. The writer tells us that though the man feels a deep attraction for her, he does not alight the train to go near her. That was probably because the train did not halt for more than a couple of minutes at Shmali. Anyway, his not taking interest to know about her did not make me think his love for the lady was not profound.
The story has a tragic ending. In one of his regular trips to home later, he finds the young girl missing. He turns anxious. In the previous occasions he saw her and thus was pleased and satisfied. Now she is not there. This compels him to alight the train and enquire the people who seemed to be hanging around there always. On enquiring one such person, he learns that she passed way the previous evening. She had turned sick and was left unattended for more than a week. Her death leaves him heart broken.
Please give your comments on this writing on a story.
While I was in class 12, I remember having a story in the English supplementary reader, of love which is very different from from all love -at –first sight accounts of all times: A young man develops love for a blind young lady whom he sees only for a short while at a train station.
The name of the story is The Train Stops at Shamli. I think the name of the train station where he sees the young lady must be Shamli and that is why the story is named so.
The story goes like this: A young man visits his hometown at least twice a month. Shamli is one of the stations the train he travels stops in between. While at one such occasion he happens to spot this lady sitting all alone in one corner of the station, which seemed not to be very busy usually. The lady appeared to be blind as she could not be seen any way affected by what was going on around. The moment the young man sees this lady through the train window he feels a strong attraction for her.
Thereafter, in his every subsequent journey the moment the train reaches Shamli, his eyes search only for this lady. The writer tells us that though the man feels a deep attraction for her, he does not alight the train to go near her. That was probably because the train did not halt for more than a couple of minutes at Shmali. Anyway, his not taking interest to know about her did not make me think his love for the lady was not profound.
The story has a tragic ending. In one of his regular trips to home later, he finds the young girl missing. He turns anxious. In the previous occasions he saw her and thus was pleased and satisfied. Now she is not there. This compels him to alight the train and enquire the people who seemed to be hanging around there always. On enquiring one such person, he learns that she passed way the previous evening. She had turned sick and was left unattended for more than a week. Her death leaves him heart broken.
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