Translation Exercise - 47

There was a lot of pressure in class tenth, but Kabir was very intelligent, it was not going to be so difficult for him. Kabir, as expected, passed the Class tenth examination with pretty decent marks. Now the biggest problem was that there were no good schools in an area like Leh and it was almost impossible to get a good education, especially for the twelfth class. It was very expensive to go out, spend a lot of money to go to a big city and enrol in a big school, and Kabir or his parents did not have that much money. Kabir wondered what to do now. He sought help from some of his close friends, but no one had such a huge amount to get enough for Kabir’s studies. In the end, Kabir did not see any ray of hope and thought that his academic career had come to an end. Kabir was very disappointed and told his father that he too would now go along with them daily for goat grazing. Dad was shocked to hear this and talked to a lawyer friend. He told Kabir’s father about a scholarship that is given by the Government of India. He talked a little about that for Kabir. Kabir’s tenth class marks were pretty good, he benefited immensely and Kabir was one of the ten children who got scholarships from all over the state. When Kabir came to know this, a new ray of hope arose for him. Kabir decided on that day that he would take full advantage of this very golden opportunity in life.