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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