At the Age of 16!

Sohni came back from school and laid down on the sofa of her living room. Her whole body was aching and she felt like her legs are breakng apart.

"What happened dear?" Mom asked.

"My whole class was taken to the playground and made murga. for the whole Physics period. my body is breaking."

"For the whole period! how long is a period of yours?" Mom was a little shocked to hear this.
"45 mintutes."
"Oh! poor child."
"Why did DBS had to stop at class nine! i wish i was back there." Sohni sighed.

Sohni had been in DBS since her kindergarten. Her family was Pakistani, but had always lived in Dubai since her parents got married. DBS was a good school  but it did not provide O'level classes. So students had to leave after class 9 and find another school for doing O'levels.
So her parents got her admitted in PMD school which had O and A levels. it was a school for Pakistanis girls only. Sohni did not want to go in a all girls school but her parents were insistent that she gives Urdu paper as well and since that school was A'levels also, she would not have to go through the hassle of taking admission.

When Sohni started going there, it was a completely different environment. it was a complete Pakistani environment, where people usually spoke Urdu. The worst part was girls were made murga in the school. Girls of age between 16-19. First Sohni was not very alarmed to see other girls being made murga. but when she told her parents about this, they were surprised, because they knew that girls of such age are not punished like this, not even in Pakistan. But there was no question of leaving the school, Sohni had to spend 4 years in this school now, 2 years for O'levels and 2 years for A'levels.

"I'm never going to this school." said Maya, her younger sister. Maya said in her red skirt and white shirt, which was her school uniform. she also went to DBS since her kindergarten.  "and besides, i like wearing skirts, im not going to wear shalwar kameez."
Maya was in class 8. she had one more year before she left DBS.
"We will see dear, we will find another school for you."
"Why does she have to go to another school and i have to go to this school where they humiliate students like this." said Sohni.

Her Mom had no answer.

Sohni often talked to her younger sister  about the punishments she got. in fact, on the dinner table she used to narrate to her entire family whenever the P.E. teacher made her murga, when the maths teacher made her murga, when the chemistry teacher made her murga.
it was strange for her family that their daughter was facing this situation in the age of 16. they tried to be supportive and never made any funny remarks or made fun of her.

Standing outside class

Neha was made to stand outside class holding her ears along with 2 other girls. her side of the elbow was touching the girl's beside her.

The Way Things are

i try to grip my ears a little more tighter. that's the thing about murgha punishment, your grip on your earlobes tends to get loose time and time again. i would know, after all i am receiving this punishment for 22 years of my life. This time i am punished for no reason at all. but i gladly became a murgha when my grandmother (dadi) told me to become murgha. she is getting old and i understand she feels very lonely in her room. She used to punish me when i did something naughty when i was younger. she used to pull me by the ear and bring me to her room. after some scolding and slaps, i used to stand as a murghi for as long as my grandmother liked. Sometimes my mother used to come and plead to grandmother,
"kab se murgha baani vi hai ye, ab tou khatam krden iski saza."
sometimes my father used to come and intervene,
"itni dair se murgha banaya wa hai aapne Sara ko, please khara krden."
 many times the pleading worked, but sometimes it didn't and the murgha punishment seemed to go on for eternity. After i turned 16, murgha punishment stopped, as i had grown older and had stopped doing naughty stuff. Although i did get scoldings time and again. Then however, as i turned 19, one day dadi called me in her room and said murgha bano.
"Par kio? kia kia mene?"
"Kuch nahi, bas mujhe wo waqt yaad araha hai jb tm mere kamre mein murga banti thi."
"Par ab mein baari hogae hun, is tarah se murgha banna sahi nhi mere liye."
After i said that, i noticed a very lonely look in my dadi's eyes. she was feeling lonely.
she had been a very stern and strict dadi, but now she had no one to discipline.
there and then i decided that i will be her good grand daughter.
in her last days of her life i will support her in her loneliness. if that meant becoming murgha in her room, then  murgha i will become.
So i became murgha right in front of her. she sat on the single sofa of her room and i a stood as a murgha in front of her. i knew this gave her a good sense of the old days. i also got a sense of the  old days but they were more peculiar as i noticed my body had become bigger. so for a the past 3 years it had become a custom for  me, going to my dadi's room at 10 pm after dinner to become a murgha and give her the company of a good granddaughter. I assume this will go on till i am married. that will probably happen after 3 years.

Kaan Pakro!

Kaaaaan Pakro! Kaaaan-e dhuru!
She could not believe the teacher was telling her to do this.
she is the coolest bitch in the college. how could the teacher ask her to do this.

Kaaaaaan Pakro. chalo. forun!

there was utter disgust in the way the teacher was emphasizing Kaan. it was making her feel most uncomfy. about two dozen eyes were onto her.
slowly and gradually she lifted her hands. then she thought what the hell she was doing. she let her hands down again halfway to her ears.

KAAAAN PAKROOO!!!

when the order came more severely, her hands moved again, slowly still, but went up all the the way this time. when her fingertips touched her ear lobes, she couldn't hold them. the ear lobes felt very cold, the sensation made her really really uncomfortable. she hadn't felt so much uncomfortable, even when her mother had pulled her ears to scold her.  she let down her hands again.

Kaan pakar rahi ho class k samne ya principal k office mein murgha banna hai. pichle hafte hi do larkia murgha bani hai wahan. akhiri baar kehri ho, kaan e dhuru, wrna murga banai debo principal k office mein, AIK DUM MURGHA!!

this really frightened her. she didnt knew what to do. would it be good to hold her ears in front of all her classmates, or go to the principals office and become murgha in front of the principal alone? well, her classmates already knew about it, so her image would be shattered anyway. so she thought it would be good to hold her ears. then she finally seized her ears. it felt strange. she felt shame in all her body, especially her buttocks. after a while she felt as if she was naked.
she had to hold her ears for a good part of the whole session of mathematics.

Murga Culture

"who would like to see Dadi's dance, hahahaha!"
i said jokingly, as evryone was joking around then.
Dadi gave me a look which is all too familiar.
to save my face i thought it was better to become murga myself.
i stood up nd became murga. i should have fixed my clothes. my ass felt tight because of my panty and shalwar. then i realised everyone was not familiar with this. and a girl 20 years of age becoming murga was not a good idea.
"its ok sit." said dadi

The Interview

today we are here to cover this school. this is considered to be one of the best schools in whole of India, and most probably the most expensive. as you can see the campus is huge, have a look at the playground, it has got an area for volleyball, cricket, and a seaparte swimming pool.
i hear this school is very strict also.
oh, what do i see?
lets have a closer look.
these are girls punished outside a classroom in murga. it is unbelievable to see such grownup girls be punished this way. lets see if we can interview them?
why are you punished.
as you can see these girls are not lifting their heads because of embarrassment.
i guess the teacher must be very strict.
"what are doing?"
i was just to trying to interview these punished girls.
"they are not allowed to talk while punished"
okay, we'll just leave then. i hope you donot punish me too.
"yes, you will be punished, because no one is allowed to  talk to the punished. become murga beside them"
i am not really sure whether the teacher really means this or not, but  i guess since i am in the school ,i have to obey the teacher.
let me become murga beside these girls. although i am a girl of 25 years.
viewers as you can see that i am also punished beside these girls now, and i can tell you its really painful. i do not know for how long i will be punished. we will continue afyer i am allowed t get up.

Dadi's room

our dadi lives with us. and you know how dadi's are. they still have old ways of thinking.
i love my dadi and respect her very much.
i am 22 years old. my name is Sara Mughal. i like to think i am a very mod girl. i dress in jeans n t most of he time.
but my dadi still makes me murga in her room.
whenever i do something bad, she takes me to her room and orders me to become murga. the punishment is about 10-15 minutes.
i asked her till when will i get this punishment? she said till you are married off.
it is so strange to make your body in such a fold and hold your ears. it is so tight.