THE ILLUMINATING

  A HOUSE BY THE MOUNTAINS   The winds of Sarmoli village were cold. People were busy in thier livlihood. Children were returning from school, Sarmoli was a place where people practiced a simple life and lived peacefully. A man's cough was heard in Mrs Singh's house. She had a quite small house. A mud house, with a small garden, a typical mountain house with limited resources sufficient for her.               There was a man lying covered in bandages, hsi face and body having multiple cuts, shivering in cold. Mrs Singh enters the house and says "You were lying by the road, had a high fever, Kalyani spotted you and informed me". Mrs Singh moved her hand forward to check the young man's fever, "Aah you'er buring with fever, you must be from the Indo-West battalion?".  The man shivering looks at her and asks "How do you know?". Mrs Singh: " I read your badge , most wounded ones are from there only"            ...