The night the ghost got in

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Summary:
This is a story of one night in the author's house. These extracts are from a fiction book by James Thurber : My life and hard times. It is an auto biographical story that means the author is writing about himself. But it is fiction as I said before.
The story starts with the author coming out of the bathroom after a bath and drying himself. That's when he hears footsteps downstairs near the dining table. He wakes up his brother Herman. Herman got scared and ran back into his room and slammed the door shut. James shut the staircase door. Hearing all the commotion woke their mother who came out and demanded to know what was happening. Although the author and his brother thought the sounds had been made by a ghost but they told mother that they believed there was a burglar in the house. Mother wanted to call the police, but the phone was downstairs. So she the her shoes at the neighbors window to ask them to call the police.
The police came along with some reporters. The police searched downstairs and when they found nothing they came upstairs to tell mother. That's when they heard the author's grandfather in the attic. They rushed upstairs to the attic. Grandfather believed he was still in the war and as soon as the police entered the attic started shooting at them.
After all the police managed to come out of the attic one of the reporters asked James about the matter. James told him about the ghost. At this all the policemen left.

Another lynching

Another lynching. Mob mentality. Education Modi response. He talks of the mahatma. Meanwhile another mob gets lynched.

Junaid's death strikes a chord because he is a child. Just 15 years old he hardly knew Indian politics had come down to. How low we've become. Doing everything wrong yet riding our high horse. Junaid simply wanted to get in his new clothes and celebrate an auspicious day he had been waiting for a long time. It is unthinkable what those goons wanted to prove by killing the child. Mohamed Akhlaq was killed for the same reason and so was the techie from Pune and so was the old man from Alvsr. 'Beef ? No! Because they were Muslim. 

Prime minister Modi issued a statement condemning the killing, and it is very obvious to many people why his statement is just a farce. First, everybody knows he became Prime Minister on that agenda. Creating hatred towards Muslims and promising everything under the sun for Hindus. So what he is now saying is opposite of what he has been saying for the past so many years. Ask Rajdeep Sardesai and all the journalists who asked him if regretted what happened in Gujarat. 

The second reason why he is obviously not sincere in his anguish is that he invoked the mahatma. He said the Mahatma would not approve. The Mahatma, as everyone knows is one of the most hated figures of the RSS. RSS is the organisation from where Nathuram Godse the Mahatma's killer originated. They and it's break away factions celebrate Nathuram Godse's birthday. So invoking the mahatma is like talking about the teacher who you do not like and make fun of always. Mr Patel will not approve. The rest of your gang know you are being sarcastic and Mr Patel's injunctions are meant to be broken. Even while he released his statement saying these killings are wrong lynch mobs are doing their work unbated. 

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