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Blast in book

by R.Shiv Narayan   

Monday,March 31 2014,9:00 AM.One fine day in which Dev was all set to go to the public library to start his holidays productively which he hadn't done before.He was 15,just completed his board.His hobbies were videogames,videogames and videogames.But he was interested in reading.Because of his hectic schedule(!)he didn't have time for it.He now decided to go to library daily to start reading which was the only interest other than videogames.

9:30 AM.After getting membership,he sat in a bench to read the book he took.It was a varied atmosphere.Silence was seeping through his ears.His benchmate seemed to be a pro reader.But violating the rules of the library,he was marking something.Dev got his eyes off the surrounding and laid them on his book.That was a great book.He almost sank inside it and was swimming to the deepest point,the end.It was pretty short for him, maybe his skills in vocabulary.Inspector lynley was the protagonist of that book.Inspired by his adventure, Dev wanted to be a detective.With this in mind,he went home.

3:10 PM,He came again to th library to read another book of lynley series.He sat on the same bench and read the second book of the series.He saw another man as his benchmate.That's right.One can't sit on the library the wole day.To his astonishment, the book was same.Dev thought that it was a reputed book.His mind again returned to lynley.After finishing the book,he went home.

Tuesday,April 1 2014.Dev can't play his videogames for one whole day today.Maintainence.It was a common thing in Tamil Nadu. He doesn't have the idea of going to library that day because of the new game he downloaded.Now no other go but to go to library.he said to his mom that he will only come by 1:30 to eat and return to the library.on his way to library,in the panadonic showroom,he saw the news going that a reputed mall in Chennai,Sagarika emporium met its demise because of a bomb blast.Bomb blast?In Chennai?Dev had many more questions in his mind because that was a rare thing in Chennai.He went to his library.At that time,he doesn't know that he was the one who was going to unfold the crime.He again started to read the third book of the lynley series.But that day his mind was fully occupied with the bombblast and had no room for lynley.His benchmate was the same person he saw the day before with the same book.It was a short book.But he was taking too long to read it.After the departure of his benchmate Dev's curiosity urged him to read the book he was reading.He saw many letters were marked in them.He didn't have his mind in reading but in the words marked in that.It was not a very reputed book too.As he arranged the words in it,he got some scrambled words.He saw something in them he unscrambled them and was spellbound as he came over the result.It said Sagarika.It also had the letter B.All the books start the story in the second or the third page, but this was staring at the first page itself.Int the last paragraph,the last word was April.And it was circled.

Interested by this, he continued to the second page, it was having the scrambled letters of koyambedu,which was a much crowded area.It also had a letter B.He didn't have any idea of what the letter B said but he had only thing that bomb was blasting tomorrow in koyambedu.He went without wasting a second to the nearest police station and said what happened.But the police didn't believe in him.He pleaded to them and brought them to the library and shown them the book.no one but a constable believed in him.He said that he will help.On that evening, they tailed the man who read the same book, and captured a couple of images of him getting a bomb from an unofficial dealer and planting it in an uninhabited area in koyambedu bus stand.They went to the inspector and handed over the proof to him.He arranged the bomb squad and got the bomb disabled and got the terrorists red handed.

Dev for his act of bravery got Rashtriya Veerta Puruskar which was given by the president.

THE END


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