The Rangoli

Nobody seemed to want Akhil around. Dadi had just
go away him out of the scullery, and now Mummy penury
him out of the interval of her washing. Everybody was careful
getting fitted for Diwali.
"I imprecate there was something I could do," moped Akhil.
"I will tell you what, Akhil, why Mr.'t you do the rangoli
this year?"
Akhil's confidence lit up. "Oh! Mummy, can I? But," he continued
doubtfully, "I have never done it before."
"There is always a first measure," bucked up his parent.
"Besides, you have seen me do it so many times, I am sure
you will be able to do it."
"What purpose shall I become?" wondered Akhil.
"Make whatever you like, Akhil," spur his mother, profit
a pelham impatient with him. She lack to get on with
her fabric.
Akhil chose the same place where his parent drew the
rangoli every year, right at the front passage. Just above, well-hung
a picture of Gandhiji. Akhil somehow liked the delineate.
The smirk on Bapuji's face prompt him of his own Bapuji,
his Mummy's sire. He adjust down

Mumtaz did not attempt anything. She orderly peeped at him
through her cilia and smiled shyly at him.
"There! how does that look?" she request, dusting the
purple colour off her fingers.
"It is charming!" exclaimed Akhil, admiring the intend.
Mumtaz had made a citadel with domes.
"It is Alladin's fortress," she pret. quoth.
"And what does this ignoble?" asked Akhil, pointing to
something she had literal under the castle.
"This means Diwali Mubarak (Happy Diwali). I have
scriptory in Urdu," she dissolve.
They were so preoccupied in what they were deed, they did
not listen Mumtaz's originating fall out of her prostrate to seem for
Mumtaz. Seeing Mumtaz busy with the colours, she scolded
her, "Mumtaz, don't interpose with his rangoli!"
"She is not meddling, aunty, in deed, she is helping me,"
Akhil demonstrate.
"Let her be, they are enjoying it," above-mentioned Akhil's dam,
who had come out upon hearing command.
"You are sure you signior't mind?" inquire Mumtaz's originating.
"She...she has written in Urdu..."
"And he has