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Death Becomes Him<br />

Jayanta Sarkar<br />

...continued<br />

He was initially afraid, but then he<br />

smiled to himself thinking that now all he<br />

has to do is to keep away from crocodiles.<br />

He will then get immortalized. He left his<br />

home town and went and got settled in a<br />

desert kingdom.<br />

In this kingdom water was a precious<br />

commodity and no such water bodies<br />

existed to sustain any big water<br />

creatures. Though getting obsessed with<br />

defeating death yet he was a learned man<br />

and quickly earned a position at the<br />

king's court.<br />

Now this king was childless for a long<br />

time, but within a year, a prince was born<br />

which called for the whole kingdom to<br />

rejoice and celebrate.He was considered<br />

auspicious by the people and the king<br />

from that day.<br />

But when he saw the little prince, he<br />

felt both a sense of recognition and<br />

unease at the same time but could not<br />

understand why. The king announced<br />

him as the prince's teacher. As days<br />

went by the prince grew up and became<br />

very fond of him. But the sense of<br />

recognition and unease was growing<br />

within him too. He still could not find<br />

any reason.<br />

Ten years have gone by, and the<br />

prince was now a ten years old<br />

child.One day the prince went to the<br />

king and requested that he wanted to<br />

go for a bath at the river Ganga. The

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