Sparrows is a story written by ka Abbas and it tells us the story of Rahim Khan who was turned into a rude and violent person because of his lost love and dreams. Rahim of 50 year old farmer is the main character of the story. He was a rude and unpleasant person who illustrated his own family. He was disliked even by the villagers and was even in fear of him. But Rahim Khan did not become heartless and rude overnight but this happened because of many build up emotions and broken dreams in his life.
At the time of his youth Rahim Khan was a great athlete in wrestling and Kabaddi and diving from the canal bridge. He had the ambition to join a touring circus which happened to pass through the village. He believe that the circus will be the best place to settle in his careerm Meanwhile, he also fell in love with a girl name Radha daughter of Ram Charan. However both his ambition and love he had in life was crushed by his parents and society in the name of tradition .The idea of marrying Radha Hindu was considered very irreligious.
Radha was married to another man and through this their relationship came to an end. By the name of tradition, his dreams were crushed by his parents and society and for a respectable person circus was considered very low and immoral. Driven by the needs of the society, Rahim Khan had lost his idea of his own life. this heart a huge impact on his life and he was turned into a cruel and hard hearted person. His eldest son Bundu hadd run away from his house 6 years before and later the other son also joined. Finally even his wife had left which bothered him not because he laughter but the unusual missing of something that was present until then.
One monsoon evening Rahim Khan return early from fields and found that the sparrows were not coming out for the crumbs of bread. He found that the nest was damaged and repaired it and by this time he was completely drenched from the rain. The next morning you woke up with high fever as he had not considered the sneeze he had last night. Later Rahim Khan was found dead by his neighbours when they came in searching for him as he was missing and was not found in the fields for a long time. that's the story putri is the character of Rahim Khan as a person who was once well behaved and held a good inner self but has drastically changed to a cruel person because of the circumstances he had in his life.
This story really influenced me to think about how beautiful souls turn to be evil because of what life puts them through.