博客來In ＂The Ghost and the Orphan Boy＂, Pinku, who was an illegitimate child, was abandoned at an orphanage when he was barely two days old. He was born accidentally when his parents had an illicit relationship while they were studying at college. A ghost haunted him every time he dreamed and whispered in his ears whenever he went to accept a friendship, when he was four years old. Unconditionally, he accepted friendship with the ghost. Thereafter, the ghost often visited the orphanage where he lived, narrating the different tragic incidents to Pinku. The ghost narrated that it was the soul of a dead woman who was born in the village and bloomed in the hazy atmosphere of the city. The ghost detested the human life because human society was full of misery; there was not justice, and law existed only for the rich people. The ghost did not want to be born again as a human being; it said, ＂It is far better to remain as dead living forever.＂ The ghost said that it could not remain as long as dead living according to their wishes, because the nature of force determined when they would be reborn and where they would be reborn, whereas a man of the supernatural power could foretell for himself when and where he would be reborn.
Pinku said the orphanage was the dumping place for parentless children, so he hated the life of an orphan. He could not tolerate that living at the orphanage seemed like living in hell. He thought that it was better to die instead of living at the orphanage. He decided to run away from the orphanage. Before he left the orphanage, the ghost told the incident how he was abandoned at the orphanage. As the ghost was ubiquitous, omniscient, it told Pinku what it knew very well and further said that his mother still could not forget him and his father did not remember him even a day. Pinku was desperate to see his parents, so he wrote a letter to his uncle, Krishna, and left the orphanage forever one late night in search of his parents.
