JUSTICE!!!                                                

  Minu came back from school and immediately went to search for her cat Chinu. Minu’s  actual name was Meenakshi  but it  existed only in school’s register,  even in school all  her friends call  her minnu.  She was a chubby, talkative lovely girl - everyone in the locality loved her.

 But where was the cat? She looked under the staircase …no, not there. She looked near the dog’s kennel - no not there also! Where did it go? After a long Search she was discovered the cat inside the small shade where all the gardening tools were kept. But, hello! She was not alone- who are there? Chinnu   the cat lying on the old mat and near her three cotton balls! Ah they   were not cotton balls- they were her kittens, they were moving!   Minnu went near, careful not to frighten the cat.  She sat there watching   them with Wonder what lovable, little creatures- eyes are still closed.

 Within an hour everyone, who lived nearby had come to know that minu’s cat chinnu y had delivered three kittens.  All her friends crowded the shade to have a glimpse.  They peeped through the door; they peeped through the windows and peeped through any holes they could find.  And all of them agreed minu was very lucky, now that she had not one but four beautiful pets!

 Days Passed and the kittens opened their eyes and looked at Minu know and she immediately fell in love with them. They were very beautiful creatures with their mother’s green eyes and black and white fur, playing gleefully under their mother’s watchful eyes. Minu adored them.   Every day she would bring milk for the kittens and Chinnu. “Now I have to find names for them”- thought minu.   After thinking for some time she told her mother “I would like to call the Tina, Nina and Gina”. “Oh! What beautiful names” - mother her friends also said they were lovely names.

 Every day the kittens would be playing near the car park where some place was still available and in the garden where yellow flowers were in bloom.  All the children would play with them in the evening after school. Kittens provided with much more entertainment and exercise than on a T. V

 One day mother said “The kittens are growing up fast; we need to find them homes.  We cannot keep that many cats!!!”Minu was sad but knew that mother was being practical. She wrote  a notice with the help of her mother and also pasted a picture and stuck it to  the gate  post and asked  her friends to enquire with the neighbours and relatives if anyone was willing to adopt any of the them. Time  passed but nobody came forward.  Minu was not upset but rather happy that she did not have to lose any of the kittens.  One day when she came back from school, Tina and Gina came running to play with her but where was Nina? She searched her everywhere but in vain. “Don't worry,  she will be back. Maybe she went to see how the outside world looks”, said her mother

 it was almost evening, when  heard her friend Deepa’s  voice calling  her urgently-“Minu a car ran over your cat Nina  on the road near our house only now I saw it”. Immediately Minu ran  to the place- there lay her beloved Nina,  the White and Brown fur ball, No! No more white and brown, now it was red. Somebody had moved her to the side of the road. The kitchen’s eyes were  closed as if Nina did not want to see the cruel world outside. Minu’s eyes  was full of tears,  she thought “No no one was kind enough to be careful because it was just s kitten, who did not know the dangerous in the world yet. Is not her life as valuable as ours?” she bid goodbye to Nina, came back and cried her heart out.

 Next morning was bright and Shiny. It was a new day, new hope, new joy and new beginning. Minu came down to get into school bus. There!!  Tina and Gina came to greet her with their love written on their faces.  How glad Minu was!!! The kittens pawed her  shoes, tugged  at her socks mewed  as if  saying “We are here for you”.