Ravi, of course that was he, happy and glee, dressed up in cheap clothes going to the movies with big brother. He showed off his new dresses to the crowd, he was just a few years old. They were going to see Superwoman, and Ravi didn�t know that till the end of the movie. The movie was in English anyway and nobody understood it, he thought, not even big brother. What an adventure, it was, and Oh man, the lady in the blue dress could fly. Lets think about it, if Ravi had a scarf around his neck, tucked into his shirt collar, would he be able to fly, may be. And he tried it too. For some days the scarf would help, but on some dull not so windy days, he couldn't fly without a sheet or spread. There was a green favorite spread, with a small hole in the right top corner or left top or left bottom or right bottom, depending on the way you hold the spread. The hole was small enough to get both of Ravi's hands through it, but the fact that should be noted is that the hole never affected his flight, nor did it affect the enthusiasm of big brother to help him fly. It never rained those days and they played, like it was forever. That�s when he knew that flying isn't so difficult, didn't you see the man landing so swiftly in the front yard using a parachute, well, it scared him badly that he hid behind the coconut trees sometimes and some other times he screamed for help. Scarier than the man landing in the front yard was the gorilla that went wild in the front yard chasing him to hide in the toilet. That�s another story, but flying is also sometimes scary. Nobody ever noticed the helicopter that hovers in the dark corner of the bedroom, in which he slept with his grandparents? So, he had to spend many sleepless nights, watching the chopper hover in the darkness, and he was too scared to sleep. After the monsoons and just after big brother left him alone, Ravi discovered that the chopper was flying silently and the noise was his grandfather snoring. That find didn't solve any purpose because the thing that scared him, the helicopter, the parachute man, the gorilla were all still there, lurking!

      Nobody could understand the deep love they shared between them, not even Ravi. Big brother taught him to sing, act, soak printed-paper in water, see half the colors dissolve and then, dry them in the sun. After he dried them, they were grainy and crisp. The mischief reached its height when he soaked grandpa�s lucky lottery tickets in water. Then what? Grandpa did the same thing, he dried them in the sun but in the end he wasn�t very happy seeing how well they dried. He might have lost a pretty huge amount, could have been thousands at least, one could guess, from disappointed look on his face. Ravi soaked his dreams of becoming rich fast. But, grandpa never scolded him or chided him. Either he was sweet or he knew that quick money carries evil. The former was the truth and the latter was the effect of communism.