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H.S. English project Indianisation of a short story thank you ma'am

INDIANISATION OF THANK YOU MA'AM

Indianisation of a short story

Original story : Thank You Ma'am

by Langston Hughes

The last word to Mrs Das

Mrs. Das was a resident of Salt Lake sector 5 area. She was working in a B.P.O. in Rajarhat Newtown. She was a widow and had no any relatives or children. She always came back her home late at night where she lived as a paying guest. In her gesture she was a large woman.

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Just like other usual days, one day she was coming home very late at night. She had a Big purse in her hand the purse had everything in it but hammer and nails. It had a long strap and she carried it slang across her shoulder. It was about 11 o'clock at night and she was walking alone when a boy ran up behind her and tried to snatch her purse. The strap broke with a single tug the boy gave it from behind. But the boy's weight and the weight of the purse combined caused him to loss his balance so, instead of taking off full blast as he had hoped, the boy fell on his back on the sidewalk and his legs flew up. Mrs. Das turned and kicked him right square in his blue jeaned sitter. Then Mrs. Das reached down, picked the boy up by his shirt front, and shook him until his teeth rattled.

After that Mrs. Das said '' pick up my purse and give it to me''. She still held him and under the capture her and the boy was unable to do anything.

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''Are not you ashamed of yourself ?'' Mrs. Das asked the boy.

Firmly gripped by his shirt front, the boy said ,''Yes Ma'am''.

''Then why you are doing so?'' Mrs. Das said to the boy angrily.

The boy replied ,''For nothing ma'am.''

''Don't tell me lie'' by saying these words, Mrs. Das shook him again.

There were very few people on the road at that time. Only two or three people passed, stopped, turned to look ,and some stood watching.

''If I turn you loose, will you run?'' asked Mrs. Das.

''Yes ma'am'' said the boy.

''Then I won't turn you loose,'' said Mrs. Das. She did not release him.

The boy was trying to achieve Mrs. Das's pardon by saying ,''I'am sorry madam, very very sorry.''

Mrs. Das thought a little and then she said,'' I can not release you as your face is very dirty. I have got a great idea in that occasion.'' Then she started dragging the boy and the boy became very frightened. He was totally confused by her behaviour.

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'' Is there nobody at your home to tell you to wash your face? asked Mrs. Das.

The boy replied,'' No ma'am there is nobody in my home.''

Mrs. Das was continuing her dragging the frightened boy behind her. By the time of dragging she looked at the boy several times. He looked as if he were fourteen or fifteen, tall and thin and graceful also. He was in tennis shoes and blue jeans. After a few moments Mrs. Das said ,''You ought to be my son. I would teach you right from wrong. Least I can do right now is to wash your face. are you hungry?''

''No ma'am'' said the boy '' I just want you to turn me loose.''

"My dear, am I bothering you?'' asked Mrs. Das.

The dragging boy replied ,''No ma'am''.

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''Listen son,'' said Mrs. Das ,''if you are thinking to escape from myself, remember my name is Nilima Das, a former athlete.''

The boy was now sweating badly and he had no idea what was going on. After a few minutes they reached in front of a five storied flat. Mrs. Das was still continuing to drag. When she got to her door ,she dragged the boy inside the room. It was a fair large room and well furnished. There was only a bed, a table and a chair ,a television set and other furnitures. She switched on the light and left the door open. The boy could hear other roomers laughing and talking in the other rooms. Some of their doors were open too. Mrs Das still had the boy by the neck in the middle of her room.

Finally she asked the name of the boy. The boy replied ''Tuhin''.

''It is a nice name. However Tuhin go to that sink and wash your face'' said Mrs. Das. After that she turned him loose at last. Now Tuhin looked at the door and then looked at Mrs. Das, and finally he went to the sink. ''Wash your face and hands properly and carefully, there is a towel also.'' Mrs. Das added.

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Tuhin now became comfortable with the atmosphere. Then he asked Mrs. Das ,''Do you want to call the police?''

Mrs. Das laughing and then said ,''No , not with that face, I would take you nowhere.''

They both remain silent for a few moments. After that Mrs. Das said,'' I think you are hungry, so please wait a few minutes till I complete my cooking''. Mrs. Das went to the kitchen. Then Tuhin him thought what was happening. The door was open, he could make a dash for it down the hall; he could run but he did not.
After a while she returned from the kitchen and served the food on the table. There was some rice and egg curry. Then she asked him to join her in the table. Tuhin hesitantly seated in a chair and started eating. Mrs. Das asked him if he liked the egg curry .

Tuhin replied that he liked that. Then Mrs. Das asked him why did he snatched her purse. The boy replied that he wanted to buy a pair of blue shoes. Then she said,'' you don't have to snatch My Pocket book to get that . Look son , I am a hard working woman. I work 10 to 12 hours per day in a BPO centre. I had also a younghood. I had also huge desire, but I never snatched peoples pocketbooks.''

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Within ten minutes the dinner was finished. Mrs. Das again returned to the kitchen. Tuhin was alone in the room. There was no one, he could easily escaped from the room but he did not. The woman did not watch him nor the purse which was left behind in the day bed. But the boy took care to sit on the far side of the room where he thought she could easily see him. He did not trust the woman not to trust him and he did not want to be mistrusted now .After a few minutes, she returned from the kitchen with two bowls of Kheer. She offered Tuhin a bowl and the other was for her. They started with the Kheer.

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Mrs. Das did not ask the boy anything about where he lived, or his folks , or anything else that would embarrass him . Instead, as they ate, she told him about her job in a BPO Call Centre that stayed open late; what the work was like; what kind of customers she had to deal with etc. Suddenly Mrs. Das noticed the bowl of Tuhin emptied . She said,'' Eat some more son, I fetch some more.'' Tuhin prohibited her and said ,''No ma'am it's ok, I don't need more.''

When they were finished the kheer Mrs. Das got up and went towards her purse. From the purse she took some money and returned to Tuhin and said,' 'Now, here, take this one thousand rupees and buy whatever you want. And next time do not make the mistake of latching onto my purse, nor nobody else's- because things come by devilish like that will burn your soul. I have to get my rest now. But I wish you would always remember my words.''

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She accompanied Tuhin to the front door and opened it. Then she said ,'' Goodnight! And remember my words.'' At that exact moment Mrs Das was looking out into the street, she was not looking at Tuhin. Tuhin could easily notice the tears from Mrs. Das's eyes.

Tuhin wanted to say something. But he could not do so as the door was banged in front of him. He never saw the woman again and he never said his last words '' Thank you ma'am'' to Mrs. Das.

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Scene : ( I )
(Mr. Sivasanker stands in the front veranda of his house. He is brooding over the servant problem. A young man named Sidda enters.)

Sidda : Sir, do you want a servant?

Mr. Sivasanker : Come in. (Sidda opened the gate and came in. Mr. Sivasanker subjected him to a scrutiny and said to himself) Doesn’t seem to be a bad sort ... At any rate, the fellow looks tidy. ) Where were you before? What’s your name ?

Sidda : In a bungalow there.(indicating a vague somewhere) in the doctor’s house.

Mr. Sivasanker : What is his name?

Sidda : I don’t know master. He lives near the market.

Mr. Sivasanker : Why did they send you away?

Sidda : (Giving the stock reply) They left the town, master.

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(Mr Sivasanker was unable to make up his mind. He called his wife. She looked at Sidda.)

Mrs Sivasanker:-He doesn’t seem to me worse than the others we have had.

(Leela, their five-year-old daughter, came out, looked at Sidda)

Leela : (Giving a cry of joy) Oh Father! I like him. Don’t send him away. Let us keep him in our house."

Mr Sivasanker - Ok , we have decided to keep you as our servant. You will be given two meals a day and four rupees a month, in return for it you have to do some household affairs like washing clothes, tending the garden, run errands, chopping wood and looking after Leela.

Leela : (Crying) Sidda, come and play!"

( After the employment Leela took his hand and they disappeared)

Leela : Now throw the ball into the sky.

(Sidda clutched the ball, closed his eyes for a second and threw the ball up. When the ball came down again)

Sidda : Now this has touched the moon and come. You see here a little bit of the moon sticking. (Leela keenly examined the ball for traces of the moon.)

Leela : I don’t see it."

Sidda : You must be very quick about it because it will all evaporate and go back to the moon. Now hurry up.... (He covered the ball tightly with his fingers and allowed her to peep through a little gap.)

Leela : Ah yes, I see the moon, but is the moon very wet?"

Sidda : Certainly it is.

Leela : What is in the sky, Sidda?"

Sidda : God.

Leela : If we stand on the roof and stretch our arms, can we touch the sky?

Sidda : Not if we stand on the roof here, but if you stand on a coconut tree you can touch the sky.

Leela : Have you done it?

Sidda : Yes, many times. Whenever there is a big moon, I climb a coconut tree and touch it.

Leela : Does the moon know you?

Sidda : Yes, very well. Now come with me. I will show you something nice.

(They come and standing near the rose plant)

Sidda : (Pointing) You see the moon there, don’t you?

Leela : Yes.

Sidda : Now come with me. (He takes her to the backyard. He stopped near the well and pointed up.) The moon is there, too.

( Leela clapped her hands and screamed in wonder.)

Leela : The moon here! It was there! How is it?

Sidda : I have asked it to follow us about.

( Leela enters in her mother's room and told her mother)

Leela : Sidda knows the moon.

Mrs Sivasanker- Ok , play less and complete your home tusk.

(Leela and Sidda sitting in a room . She has a box with some catalogues, illustrated books and stumps of pencils. She made him squat on the floor with a pencil between his fingers and a catalogue in front of him. She has another pencil and a catalogue.)

Leela : (Commanding) Now write.

(Sidda trying to copy whatever she wrote in the pages of her catalogue. But Sidda even remotely copied that.)

Leela : (Examining his effort.) Is this how I have drawn the crow? Is this how I have drawn the B?" (She pitied him, and redoubled her efforts to teach him. But that good fellow was utterly incapable of playing the pencil. After a few moment )

Sidda : I think your mother is calling you to dinner.

(Leela drops the pencil and runs out of the room. )

(Bed room of Leela ,Leela is laying in her bed and Sidda is ready with a story. He is sitting on the floor near the bed and telling her stories)

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Scene –(II)

(Mrs Sivasanker is doing some household affairs, in that time Leela enter into this room and suddenly noticed something at Leela's neck)

Mrs Sivsanker - Where is your chain?

(Leela looked into her shirt, searched but did not find her chain)

Leela : I don’t know.

(Her mother gave her a slap.)

Mrs Sivsanker - Do you know it was a gold chain ? How many times have I told you to take it off and put it in the box? (Shouts) Sidda, Sidda! (Sidda comes in) Where is the chain? Where have you kept it?

Sidda: I don’t know (With a dry throat)

Mrs.Sivasanker: Bring the chain or I'll call the police.

(She turns to go back to the kitchen for a moment )

Leela : Give me some sugar, Mother, I am hungry (Sidda exits)

Mrs.Sivsanker - Sidda, Sidda ..............

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SCENE : ( III )

( Mr. Sivasanker comes home )

Mrs Sivsanker - Do you know what happened today !

Mr Sivsanker - What ?

Mrs Sivsanker - Leela's gold chain is missing and Sidda is also missing.

Mr Sivsanker - What ! Ok I will take proper steps. ( Goes out from the room)

Mrs Sivasansker - Ok Leela , now go to your bed .

Leela: I won't sleep unless Sidda comes and tells me stories...I don't like you, you are always abusing and worrying Sidda.Why are you so rough?

Mrs Sivasanker: But he has taken away your chain...

Leela: Let him. It doesn't matter. Tell me a story.

Mrs Sivasanker : Sleep, sleep.

Leela: Tell me a story.

Mrs Sivasanker : It is God's mercy that the villain has not killed the child for the chain..... (Turning to Leela). Sleep, Leela, Sleep,

Leela : Can't you tell the story of the elephant?

Mrs Sivasanker : No (Leela makes a noise of deprecation)

Leela : Why should not Sidda sit in our chair, Mother? (Mother does not answer the question. Silence for a moment) Sidda is gone because he wasn't allowed to sleep inside the house like us. Why should he always be made to sleep outside the house, Mother? I think he is angry with us,

(Mr. Sivasanker enters)

Mr Sivsanker - What a risk we took in engaging that fellow. It seems he is an old criminal. He has been in jail half a dozen times for stealing jewellery from children. From the description I gave, the inspector was able to identify him in a moment.

Mrs. Sivasanker: Where is he now?

Mr. Sivasanker : The police know his haunts. They will pick him up very soon, don't worry. The inspector was furious that I didn’t consult him before employing him...

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SCENE : ( IV)

(Mr and Mrs Sivasanker are sitting in a room . A police inspector and a constable bring in Sidda. Sidda stands with bowed head. Seeing Sidda, Leela is overjoyed )

Leela: (running towards Sidda) Sidda! Sidda!

Inspector: (stooping her) Don't go near him.

Leela: Why not?

Inspector: He is a thief. He has taken away your gold chain.

Leela: Let him. I will have a new chain. ( All of them laugh)

Mr.Sivasanker: Why have you taken the chain? Where is the chain? Tell me what you have done with the chain?

Mrs Sivasanker: Sidda, so ungrateful you are! You are a devil. (Tears roll down Sidda's cheek)

Sidda: I have not taken it. (Very feebly, looking at the ground)

Mrs. sivasanker: Why did you run away without telling us?
(There is no answer. Laela's face becomes red.)

Leela: Oh, policeman, leave him alone. I want to play with him.

Inspector: My dear child, he is a thief.

Leela: (Haughtily) Let him be...

Inspector (to Sidda): What a devil you must be to steal a thing from such an innocent child! Even now it is not too late. Return it. I will let you off, provided you promise not to do such a thing again.

Mr. & Mrs Sivasanker: (agreeably) Return it now. No harm will be done to you.

Leela: (feeling disgusted with the whole business) Leave him alone, he hasn't taken the chain.

Inspector: (Humorously) You are not at all a reliable prosecution witness, my child!

Leela: (screams) He hasn't taken it!

Mr. Sivasanker: Baby, if you don't behave, I will be very angry with you.

Inspector: (to the constable) Take him to the station. I think I will have to sit with him tonight. (The constable takes Sidda by the hand and returns to go. Leela runs behind them.)

Leela: (crying) Don't take him. Leave him here. (She clings to Sidda's hand. He looks at her mutely, like an animal. Mr. Sivasanker carries Leela back into the house. )

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SCENE : ( V )

( Leela is sitting in a chair sadly. Mrs Sivasanker is doing household affairs. Then Mr Sivasanker comes in )

Mrs Sivasanker: Any news of the chain?

Leela: Where is Sidda?

Mr. Sivasanker: They still have him in the lockup, though he is very stubborn and won't say anything about it.

Mrs Sivasanker : (with a shiver) What a rough fellow he must be!

Mr. Sivasanker: Oh, these fellows who have been in jail once or twice lose all fear. Nothing can make them confess.

( Suddenly Mrs Sivsanker putting her hand into the tamarind pot in the kitchen, and picks up the chain. She takes it to Mrs Sivasanker )

Mrs Sivasanker - There ...... here is the chain ! How does it come here !
( She goes to Leela to show the chain to her.)

Mrs Sivasanker : Look at the chain.

Leela: It's mine, Give it here, I want to wear the chain.

Mrs Sivasanker: How did it get into the tamarind pot?

Leela: Somehow,

Mrs Sivasanker: Did you put it in?

Leela: Yes, mother.

Mrs Sivasanker: When?

Leela: Long ago, the other day.

Mrs Sivasanker : Why didn't you say so before?

Leela: I don't know.
( Mr and Mrs sivasanker astonished deeply )

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SCENE ( VI )

( Mrs Sivasanker is doing household affairs , Mr. Sivasanker comes in )

Mr Sivasanker : The child must not have any chain hereafter. Didn’t tell you that I saw her carrying it in her hand once or twice? She must have dropped it into the pot sometime .

Mrs.Sivasanker: What about Sidda?

Mr. Sivasanker: I will tell the inspector tomorrow… in any case, we couldn't have kept a criminal like him in the house.

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Dramatisation : Leela's FriendDramatisation of a short story Leela's FriendClass 11( XI) English project Leela's Friend

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Scene : ( I )
(Mr. Sivasanker stands in the front veranda of his house. He is brooding over the servant problem. A young man named Sidda enters.)

Dramatisation : Leela's FriendDramatisation of a short story Leela's FriendClass 11( XI) English project Leela's Friend

(Mr. Sivasanker stands in the front veranda of his house. He is brooding over the servant problem. A young man named Sidda enters.)

[Dramatisation : Leela's FriendDramatisation of a short story Leela's FriendClass 11( XI) English project Leela's Friend]

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Dramatisation : Leela's FriendDramatisation of a short story Leela's FriendClass 11( XI) English project Leela's FriendScene : ( I ) (Mr. Sivasanker stands in the front veranda of his house. He is brooding over the servant problem. A young man named Sidda enters.)

Dramatisation : Leela's FriendDramatisation of a short story Leela's FriendClass 11( XI) English project Leela's Friend

(Mr. Sivasanker stands in the front veranda of his house. He is brooding over the servant problem. A young man named Sidda enters.)

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Scene : ( I )
(Mr. Sivasanker stands in the front veranda of his house. He is brooding over the servant problem. A young man named Sidda enters.)