Scene 1:
(It’s a busy Morning time in Hari's house – Hari getting ready for school. Ramu, the servant boy helps everyone at home)
Mother : (Screaming) Ramu...! Ramu...! Where are you? Don’t you know that it is time for Hari to get ready for school?
Ramu : Coming, Aunty. I was watering the plants.
Mother : Is that urgent now? Can’t you hear the School Bus horn?
Hari : Mummy! Look! Ramu has not even polished my shoes.
Mother : He has become too lazy these days. What about Hari’s lunch box?
(Ramu rushes to the kitchen to get the same)
Father : (Angrily) Why are you standing like a pillar? Can’t you carry his bag? It is so heavy.
Ramu : Okay Ji... Hari...! Give me the bag. (both rush out)
Father : Oh, now I remember. His uncle called me to say that his mother is sick and wants to see him.
Grand Mother : Poor boy. Let him go and stay with her for 4, 5 days.
Father : Ok.
(Ramu's uncle comes and takes him to his village. After 3 days---)
Scene 2:
Mother : I am so tired. Lot of work. He used to help me so much.
Hari : He used to keep everything ready for me for school. Oh, I miss him.
Grand Mother : You have all become so much dependent on him even for simple tasks.
Father : True. Look at the garden. The plants have almost dried up in Ramu's absence.
Grand Mother: But, any of you could water the plants. It is our garden. we are equally responsible to maintain it properly.
Father : Hari, Ramu is of your age only. It is high time you start doing atleast some of your tasks independently without expecting Ramu to do all your work.
Father : Later on, suppose you may have to go to hostel. Then how will you manage your work?
Grand Mother: Or, if he no longer continues in our house, then?
Mother : My God, I just can't imagine.
Grand Mother : There is a limit to which we can thrust all jobs on him.
Father : Amma, you are right.
Mother : Let us not do so hereafter once he is back with us. In the long run, we are bound to become too lazy then.
Hari : I'll start with folding my bed after getting up in the morning, polish my shoes, fill my water bottle and pack my lunch bag on my own first.
Father : That's good. If we share his work he will have more spare time too. I have decided to coach him up in studies so that we can try for his school admission next year.
Grand Mother : (happy)Noble idea!
