Birthday

-Guru Prasad

Vasu told his wife, ‘Rani! Next week is the birthday of Waheeda! Do you’ve any idea?’

Rani smiled and replied, ‘What’s there to ask? We’ve only one daughter! We’ll have a grand birthday!’

When Vasu saw his parents’ hesitation, he said, ‘What do you look at? This is the tenth birthday of Waheeda. Daddy! This year her birthday would be celebrated not at home but at some grand hotel. We’d invite all our relatives and friends. I’ve made a budget of ten thousand rupees! What is your opinion?’ He looked towards all with anxious look!

‘No! We’ll have no such party.  On my birthday we’d get up early in the morning. We’d go to temple. Afternoon, we’d go to some orphanage and celebrate my birthday with them. And then plant ten saplings around the house!

Listening to Waheeda, all were dumb-struck!