Rigved

After dropping Rig to school, I generally wait at the gate till he disappears. Today we reached quite late, the national anthem had begun. Rig dashed to the entrance and when he climbed the initial steps, he just halted abruptly, waited for the national anthem to finish and then moved on.

Later in the evening I asked him whether it was the national anthem that made him halt or was it some teacher who maybe beckoned him to stop till the anthem was over. Rig said he was on his way up when he noticed another kid who had stopped on the way coz the anthem was going on and that made him stop too.