Relations

When we like somebody, his/her nature hardly matters. We always ready to do anything for his/her behalf. That is love and there a relationship grows.

Sun is yet to rise. Birds are about to leave their nest. It is not fully dark but it is not visible too. People are still sleepy and so as other animals. Alarm is not yet ringed and so as the Rooster. It is neither the morning nor the dawn. It is before the dawn and everywhere is calm.

At the end of the village, Ravi opened his gate and came out with the net. Ravi is one month old in this village and nobody knows about his past. Since, last one month, with the help of village headman, he has been teaching the students in the school as well as in the tuition. What made him to get up so early and that to with a net, it seems strange. He is walking towards the lake near by the village.

He has caught some fish and before morning, reached at the market. He has to sell all the fish before 10 AM. He enquired the price and started selling fish. Raghu, a person from the same village, came to purchase the fish, because they are expecting some guests by this afternoon. He saw Ravi, both are teaching in the same school, and shocked initially. He straightly went to Ravi and thought to purchase two kg instead of one KG. He is having the money for only one kilo and requested Ravi to provide him two kilo and rest of the money he will pay later. But, Ravi, a pakka businessman, denied. Ravi said, ‘I have not started selling one of the fish yet and you are asking for credit. No credit please. If you have money than take the quantities or else find the next shop.’ Raghu, has not been to any other shop, he purchased one kg from his friend and returned to home.

Ravi has initiated his business. He is the only fish seller in that market. He is expecting to sell his entire fish before time. He has a good start for the day. After sometime, he has about six to seven kg left in his basket, he is happy. The police inspector arrived with his bike and asked Ravi to weight the entire left fish. It is seven kg. Ravi is asked to pack those fish for the inspector and he does as directed. Ravi is happy. He has sold the entire fish before the predicted time. He is watching to the face of police inspector with a smile and waiting for his money. The inspector, started his bike and gone away. Ravi was speechless. It was seven kg, five hundred rupees.

Ravi is doing hard and applying all his skill to become a rich person. His new business is running very nicely since a week. After a week, again a police came and took five kg of fish in the name of the police inspector, without paying a single penny. That happened for three times more. Ravi has lost his patience. The inspector has blocked his twenty five hundred rupees. The next day of the business, the police arrived and asked for five kg of fish. Ravi denies and asks him to clear the credit first. The police convey the same message to the inspector and return to Ravi. He said, ‘saheb tujhe bula rahe hain.’ (Inspector wants to meet you.) Ravi becomes happy. He will get his money.

Soon he arrives in the police station; the inspector beat him hard and put inside the bar by saying saale you need money. I am taking money from each and other and you are asking money from me. I got a complaint that you are selling rotten fishes. Many people became ill by your fish. Now, stay inside the bar and collect the money.

After sometime, the police came and opened the gate. He saw Raghu with the village headman. They spoke to the inspector and release him. Ravi realizes and felt ashamed for that day, when Raghu begged him for two kg of fish and he denied. It is Raghu again, who saved him from the police. He is a true friend. A friend in need is a friend indeed.