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Wednesday 17 January 2018

CAIRO AND ANACONDAS , A BUNKER AT AL AZHAR IN 11TH CENTURY |EP 2 ACROSS NILE| A TIME TRAVEL FUSION STORY

punishment of a bunker
‘What are you doing here? Have you bunked your classes’?
 A very beautiful young girl was there. Hassan listened about the beauty of Egyptian girls, but words were less for her magnificent beauty. He was spell bound……

‘Don’t you listen, what I am saying’? She looked very angry.
 ‘Do you know the punishment of bunkers?’
 ‘Yes…no…. I didn’t…. I just….,’ Hassan got confused.
 ‘Now go and fetch water for all the students’. She brought two big buckets hanging on a big piece of dowel and put on his shoulders from the back.
‘Aaaa…,’ Hassan acted to feel the throbbing from that heavy piece of wood.
She got irritated by his constant non serious reactions. She went inside and took another bucket and gave in his hand, ‘now you will bring three buckets,’ she said and went back again. He looked around. She got disappeared somewhere in the lobbies. The spell was over. He was alone in the backyard with three big empty buckets and with a blazing sun on his head.
 ‘Which way to go?’ At last he came out in the street. There was a big market at some distance. People were buying things of their daily use. Hassan could see the prosperity and harmony on their faces. 11th century witnessed the golden age of Muslims while Europeans were struggling in their dark age.
where is the water?
 ‘Where could I get water’ Hassan asked a man passing there. Many people on street turned to him amazingly on his inquiry.
‘Have I asked something wrong?’ he thought.
‘Nile is 1KM from here, strange! Even a new comer in Egypt knows, where to get water’, that man commented.
 ‘Cairo, Oh yes, I am in Egypt,’ He heard many stories about fast and furious Nile which was life of those people in a big desert of Africa.

But then he estimated the distance and cried, ‘What, 1 km?  It’s too far. How I will hold these buckets, they are very heavy even empty ’, he talked to himself and moved forward.  After a short distance he could see many people going to river for water and fishing. Some were riding on camels but mostly were going on foot. There were green crops at both sides.  He was so tired, that he sat in the way.
‘I can’t even take a step now’.

‘Are you a scholar from Al Azhar madrassa,’ one man on a camel stopped by him.
 ‘Women administrators of madrassa are very strict, I also got many punishments here,’ he told Hassan.
‘woman! She was quite young,’ Hassan thought on his comment. Hassan sat on his camel with his buckets.
‘I also came here from Syria for higher studies in Mathematics like many other students from all over the world. I have very good memories from here,’ that man was lost in his memories.
‘You can ask me in any problem,’ Hassan got happy to see the blue waters of Nile in front of him. That man greeted him pleasantly and went to his way. Hassan looked around the banks of river were crowded with people. Many boats were there to transport people and goods. Birds were flying on blue waters of Nile and catching fishes.
Hassan drank a lot of water, filled the buckets and realized that they were too heavy to lift now even for a minute. He saw many men and women were taking heavy buckets on foot.
meeting of an anaconda

cairo and anacondas across nile
anaconda drifting across nile at cairo
‘You are too young. You should take my buckets too,’ one man with a single bucket replied, when he asked for help. He hardly lifted them, took one step and stopped and decided not to bunk his class in life again. Suddenly he felt his feet on something soft. He looked down; it was a big snake on the muddy bank of Nile. ‘Aa aa…   Anaconda in my feet’ he closed his eyes and screamed at full volume……….
Disclaimer: Names and people in this story are completely fictional. They bear no resemblance to anyone living or dead.

TO BE CONTINUED
1.    Do you think that bunking is a fun?
2.    What punishment do you suggest for Hassan if you would be there?
Don’t forget to write your answers in a comment box.
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disclaimer: all characters of the story are imaginary. they bear no resemblance to anyone living or dead.Enjoy and get lost in videos, saved in space pockets from past and future. Five class fellow went on time travel adventures with the aid of a scientist Zaka, from 24th century and sometimes they replaced with the real characters of past to hype the excitement.Other stories of the series are:
  1.  ACROSS THE NILE
  2. MY BEACON FUTURE HOUSE
  3. THE MUGHAL ECLIPSE
  4. PRITHVI VS GHAURI 
  5. MY GUILTY STYLE
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disclaimer: all characters in the story are fictitious. they bear no resemblance with anyone living or dead.
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