My Apu

My Apu
It's Saptami...The dhaks (drums) are being beaten. All of Apu's friends are at the 'Mandap' - the place where the worship takes place. However, Apu can't go out to the Puja Mandaps alone (he had a fever two years back and cant walk since then). His mother cant take him either - she works as a domestic help and has gone out on work. Apu was trying to listen to the 'Dhak' beats, when this weird person with a gun like thing arrived to shoot him. Is Apu scared? Never, Apu is a brave boy!

He knows it - they call it the carma, errr...the camra. The take photos using this every year, promise to send them back but never sends them.

Apu's real name is Sujit. He belongs to a potter family and haven't seen his father ever - his father left the family a month before Apu's birth and nobody ever found out where he is.