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Describe Night train at deoli​

Answer 1

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In this short story, Ruskin Bond narrates his experience during one of his train journeys to Dehra as an eighteen-year-old. He tells us that he used to spend his vacation every summer in his grandmother’s place in Dehra and had to pass a small lonely station, Deoli amidst the jungle on the way. This station appears strange to him as no one got on or off the train there & nothing seemed to happen there. He wonders why the train stopped there for ten minutes regularly without reason and feels sorry for the lonely little platform. 

On one such journey, the author happens to see a pale-looking girl selling baskets. She appears to be poor, but with grace and dignity. Her shiny black hair and dark, troubled eyes attracts the author. The girl offers to sell baskets to him. He initially refuses to buy and later when she insists, happens to buy one with a little hesitation, daring not to touch her fingers in the melee. Both of them just look at each other for quite some time, just as it strikes a chord of affection between them. He longs to see her, her searching and eloquent eyes, again on his return journey. The meeting helps to break the monotony of his journey & brings in a sense of attachment & responsibility towards the girl. 

The second time he sees her, both of them feel pleased to see each other, a smile on their faces reinforcing it, it seems like a meeting of old friends. Silence reigns and speaks more than words. He feels like taking her with him but does not do so. He tells her that he needs to go to Delhi and she replies saying she need not go anywhere, perhaps expressing her helplessness. Both of them separate unwillingly as the train leaves the station, with the hope of meeting again. The author spends the remainder of the journey and a long time later thinking about her. 

The next summer, soon after his college term finishes, he rushes to go to Dehra, eager to meet the girl, his grandmother being an excuse. This time she is not to be seen at the Deoli station though he waits for a long time. This deeply disappoints him and a sense of foreboding overcomes him. On his way back to Delhi, he again waits anxiously to see her, but it ends in vain. On enquiry, he comes to know that the girl has stopped coming, & nobody knows about her whereabouts. Once again, he has to run for the train and invariably leave the station. He decides that once he would break the journey there, spend a day in the town, make enquiries and find the girl who had stolen his heart.

The following year in summer, he again walks up & down the platform hoping to see the girl, but somehow, cannot bring himself to break the journey to look for her. He seems to be afraid of discovering about her, dreading about anything unfortunate that could have befallen her and wants to retain his sweet memories of her & not allow it to be spoilt with unfortunate events. All the same, the author also suggests to his readers that he did not want to project himself like a hero of a movie where the hero would meet his sweetheart going through all hardships and win her over. He prefers to keep hoping and dreaming, waiting for the girl. 

The author brings the readers to a realistic world rather than a fictitious, imaginary, unreal world, driving home the fact that life is not like a fiction novel or a movie; losing and gaining becomes part of life’s journey that needs to be taken in our stride. Life is a constant process, which cannot be stopped. We can only carry memories forward while life goes on

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Answer 2

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The Night Train at Deoli is a sensitively told story about adolescent infatuation. It describes the narrator's feelings for a poor basket-seller he meets on his way to Dehra Dun at a little station. He only meets the girl twice and never sees her again, yet she lives on in his memories. The plot revolves around the meeting of two strangers and their brief acquaintance. It captures the essence of a few minutes with unbridled suspense and all-encompassing passion.

• The story begins with the eighteen-year-old protagonist narrating an incident about one of his regular visits to his grandmother's place during his college vacations, set against the backdrop of Deoli—a small station where the train would briefly halt before entering the dense jungles of the Indian Terai belt.
• The train would arrive at Deoli station around five a.m. and would stop for about ten minutes. Nobody ever got off or on the train here.
• The narrator was curious about what happened behind the walls of the stations and felt terrible for the small town that no one seemed to care about.
• He was captivated by the appeal of a little girl selling cane baskets at Deoli station.She was not dressed ornately, but she had an elegant walk and a dignified expression that drew the narrator's attention. He locked his gaze on her, and even though she feigned not to notice, their gazes collided.
• The narrator was taken with her attractiveness and exited the train to visit the tea shop. The two were attracted to each other, and the girl followed him there and asked if he wanted to buy a basket. The narrator, despite his reservations, purchased a basket so as not to disappoint the girl and paid her a rupee in exchange, barely daring to touch her fingers.
• Their talk was cut short by the station master's bell ringing, and the storyteller had to dash back to his compartment. He gazed out his window at the girl, who was standing alone on the platform.
• This was how the first gathering concluded on a gloomy note, and the cherished moment seemed to slip away with the platform.
• It wasn't until he was on his way back two months later that he remembered the girl. The anticipation of seeing her again rushed through him, filling him with an unexpected joy.
• The second meeting between the girl and the narrator felt familiar. Both remembered their first meeting, and the initial apprehension was gone. She didn't go around the platform selling baskets, but instead approached him at the tea-stall, and their mutual delight at meeting was transmitted silently.
• The narrator had a crazy temptation to put her on the train and take her away with him because he couldn't face the thought of seeing her fading into the distance of Deoli station again.
• He took her hand in his and informed her he was travelling to Delhi and would return. In response, the girl nodded, indicating that she would be there to meet him again.

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