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FIRST DAY, FIRST SHOW BLUES (SHORT STORY) (GENRE:FICTION)
By Neel Anil Panicker
First Day, First Class, First Hour: Twentyone-year-old Kishore Prasad Mahto wished the Earth below his feet would give way and he be sucked deep into its recesses.
He looked what he was: A person from the heartlands.
Clad in a pale blue workman’s half sleeved shirt, cheap cotton trousers worn out at the edges, thin lips pursed around a scraggy pockmarked face that looked dyed a permanent dirty yellow, and cracked feet half covered in shocking red slippers, the kind that you get in village fairs popularised by the cattle classes.
Cattle class, that’s what he was and that’s what he epitomised.
He was seated all alone in the farthest corner. The desk beside him was empty, so were the ones in front and back. His segregation from…
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