September 10

The scene is a rural landscape. It is some where in rural Bengal most likely with its kaccha roads and patches of greenery but there is something sinister in the landscape…it is not lush green but parts of it are barren and desolate. I'm trying to escape and there is a child with me. I don't know who the child is but she/he seems to know that we are in mortal danger and our only hope is to get on this train which is about to arrive. This train is filled with other half-naked children who are thin and gaunt from hunger and many of them are maimed with their limbs missing. It is a huge relief when we are able to get on the train at the last minute…someone pulls us in and we are huddled with the other scared children. I don't remember the rest of the journey but at some point this child and I get off and this child has someone/something with him…can be a pet or a soft toy. The scene after getting off the train is a ditch-like road which has on its two sides raised surface. So we are in this ditch-like road and the moment we are off the train, I hear a gunshot and the child with me is dead, sprawled out on the ground. The shooter is someone in uniform and he is aiming towards me from the raised side. I try to climb up on the other side but it is too high and then I decide to lie down thinking the man will not have a good view of me if I do that. But it turns out that as I'm lying belly-down on the ground I'm in perfect line with his shot and he aims at my head. I can feel the blood running down my skull and my face and then there is oblivion. Am I dead? I wake up gasping for air and I'm horrified and relieved at the same time. I'm alive. That was a nightmare.