Sweet Poison

[rock_26iin]

Read this on the TOI site. They've got this Newspaper in Education programme going on where they ask kids to write articles and they are then printed in Quest. Interesting read although kinda far-fetched. Pretty good when u consider that a 14-year old wrote it



Sweet Poison

12th February, 2003:

Once there were four friends, namely, Ram, Shyam, Mohan and Sohan. All of them were very close friends and always stayed together. Once they decided to go to the forest near the village on a picnic. On their way, they saw a few bushes of berries and decided to pick a few. They ended up picking so many that even after most of them had eaten a lot of it they still had enough for all of them to take home.



15th February, 2003:

Sohan was not feeling well and as he went to the hospital he saw that the rest of them were also present there. Their condition became so serious that they had to be airlifted to the hospital in the city. After hours of intense medical surgery the doctors came out with the bad news. They said that three of the four would not be saved and Sohan was the only one to survive.



21st February, 2003:

When Sohan was up and about, he asked the doctor what the cause of that severe illness was. The doctor explained that there were some toxins present in their stomachs and had already spread to various parts in the bodies of his friends. His case was slightly different as the toxin was restricted to his stomach by his body. The doctor asked him whether he and his friends had eaten anything which no one else had eaten. At first he could not remember anything but then he remembered the berries and as none other than them knew about it that had to be the cause for their illness. The doctor told him to get the berries to the hospital for testing.

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Sohan went to the spot in the woods and returned with the berries and handed them over for testing. The laboratory technician told him that it would take a few days to find out what the berries contained. So he returned to the apartment that he had rented in the city.



25th February, 2003:

Sohan went to the hospital’s laboratory and was informed that the berries did contain very harmful toxins and he was indeed very lucky to survive. Investigations showed that the harmless looking berries had turned poisonous due to pollution of the water in which they were grown.

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So friends let us be considerate enough to keep our clean and green planet as it is and not demolish it by pollution. Due to our folly lives of innocent people are lost.

[vapourlock]

huh..what?when?where?.....bah...

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amen

[Habitual Perfectionist]

huh..what?when?where?.....bah...
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amen

Kya mai isliye boards se paanch din door hua tha? Don't treat every thread as your jhopdi and start using Sulabh Shauchalays for crapping. Yahan badbu aati hai.



**On Topic**

Kudos to the kid for the story. Its sad that we tend to ignore issues such as pollution. We need to be more responsible towards what world we are leaving back for our kids.