A Story about Daydreams.
The time was 1.45 in the afternoon. I’s waiting infront of the now bare and empty yet what was a very lively and chatty Class- XI Arts A till yesterday, waiting for the 6 th period to begin. Mr. Sangay Tempa, the School Councillor, asked me if I had time to explain the story “Test” to him. There was some 10 minutes left when Ms. Pem Choki, XII Arts B, asked me to join them behind the huge rock turned into an artificial garden at the beginning of the session this year. There were Sangay Tempa, Ms. Pema Choki, Ms. Passang Wangmo, Ms. Poonam and Ms. Karma Denchen Pema. All seriousness personified. We spent the next 20-25 minutes discussing various issues related to Tagore's masterpiece "Woman Unknown". It was Pema Choki again who asked me to move on with the next story, ‘one of her favourites’, Thurber’s immortal “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. Ms. Passang Wangmo’s question, in the meantime, had made me reflect on the fact that writing a story on daydreams or fanta...