The wonder boy!
27/11/18 This incident happened few months back. There was a fair, cute and a neatly groomed boy in my class. Initially the boy was as quiet as a clam sea but as the time went by, he developed better competency in both english and dzongkha which ignited his talkativeness. He even displayed interest in coming near to my table and communicating with me about anything , almost daily. One day, the boy came to me and whispered in my ears , ' mam, can i tell u one thing? ' to which i agreed. With a slight smile on his lips, he told me something which took my breath away for few seconds. He said, ' mam, yesterday my Apa(father) beat my Ama(mother) with my guitar and the guitar broke.' Upon hearing this, i couldn't believe my ears at first and to confirm what i heard was correct, i asked him in a loud voice(may be i was bit shocked), 'what ? why? what did u do? how did u feel? were u scared? did u cry? or did your ama cry? ...and when i realized, i already had