A prayer

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My results are coming out tommorrow. Papa has promised me choclates and a trycycle if I get first rank.

I don't know if I will get it. Becose I think I did badly in social studies. I knew all the answers, but culdn't remember the name of the prime minster. Was it Manmohan Sinh or Sonia Gandhi? I see both of them all the time on TV. And I am sure Ramesh has the right answer to it. He, most of the times, gets the right answers. He is also very good at mathamatics. That's another subject I am scared of. He beat me in the last two exams. I don't know how he gets all the corect answers. How he is allways first in the class. Oh God! Can't I be first at least once.

Papa and Amma want me to beat Ramesh. I had to stay awake till 11 o' clock at night this exam. And I had to wake up at five in the moning. Papa tells me I have to do it becose Ramesh does it too. Do you know how dificult it is to stay awake? But I had to becose this time I have to come first.

I had come third in the Christmas exam. Papa didn't give me the choclate I was promised. He said only good children get presents. I am bad becose I didn't come first. Why is Ramesh allways first in the class?

He is also good at drawing. He sings too. He can even write. Last year he got five first prizes. I got only two. I came second in three contests. Ramesh was first in all those comptitions. Now I am learning singing from a music teacher. She says I will definitly get first prize next year. And I used to attend drawing classes. I like that. I like drawing hills and trees and flovers. But Papa says singing is better than painting. So now I only attend music classes.

Ramesh is the Teacher's favorite. She says we all should be like Ramesh. We should learn to speek like him, walk like him, comb hair like him, smile like him, dress like him. She never scolds him. Last week he didn't do homework, she just said, "Dont forget next time." When I didnt bring the assignment, I was made to stand in a corner. Why is that? Next time he doesn't do homework, God, please make him stand in the corner.

Do you know those who come first, come on television? I didn't know that. Yesterday, Hari bhaiya's photo came on TV. Amma says he came first in Class XII. Today his photo is there in the newspaper too. Hari bhaiyya says he wants to be an enginear. The newspaper says so. Now my Amma wants me to be like Hari bhaiyya. She wants me to come first in twelfth standard. If I do, I will come on TV. Shobha aunty, Raman uncle, my friends at school and all others will see me on TV. But that can only happen if I beat Ramesh.

Oh God, please help me.

If I don't come first in twelfth standard, please cut off the electricity when it's news on TV. I don't want Papa and Amma to see Ramesh on television. But please give electricity when news is over. My favorite programme is Superman. It comes just after the news.

Yours
Mintu

And God, please don't tell Papa I wrote to you.
Also, please don't tell Teacher and Papa if my spellings are wrong.first published:May 23, 2006, 14:20 ISTlast updated:May 23, 2006, 14:20 IST
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