Beggar Girl

She was invited to a party, for the first time in her life. She was what everyone thought to be 'the dirty girl'. It was never her fault that she was born to a poor family, to a mother who was an ayah in the big school, to a drunk father who beat her and her mother mercilessly every night after dousing his insides with spurious alcohol.



The Principal was kind enough to let her study in class 4. The teachers loved her too. But the other children? Not so much. Her torn uniforms, oily pigtails and rough hands were always a subject of laughter for the others, much to her chagrin. 'Beggar girl-Beggar girl', they chanted each time they saw her. Each day of going to class was like running the gauntlet of a field full of landmines, waiting to explode at the footfall of an unassuming soul.


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