English

The hero mumbled so because he did not want to set ablaze the flame of communal violence on the ground that the cyclist had hit him.

The hero exchanged words with the cyclist because his cycle wheels ran between the hero’s legs while he was hurrying home through the narrow lane.

On the 29th of October the hero plunged himself into work in order to get rid of the thoughts of violent communal outburst from his mind. It was getting dark when he stood up from his seat. He was anxious about reaching home immediately. The usual way seemed to him laborious. So he took a …

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The atmosphere of violence and hatred that lingered in his locality and all the hate charged communal propaganda sounded ghastly to the hero’s sensitive temperament.

In the atmosphere of violent and hatred, people seemed to the hero sneaky and secretive. So he avoided meeting anyone.

The hero’s wild imagination pertaining to some peril that might happen to his wife and children in an atmosphere filled with mutual fear and hatred frenzied him to such an extent that he could not sleep at night.

The school remained cloosed on the 29th of October as a precaution because it was believed that the ultimate settlement of the communal issue would ensue on that day.

The hero’s wife tried to persuade him to keep from offiice as a precaution because the zero hour i.e the time fixed for the ultimate settlement of the communal issue was scheduled on the 29th of October.

The hate-charged communal propaganda all around made the hero whisper “God forbid”.

The time of the story is October 1947, soon after independence and partition of India.