Klaus tried to explain to me several times why this is so: the stars move, space also moves, and if you want to get somewhere in a reasonable amount of time, then the right thing to do is fly to the lakshmi point.
That is, to the same direction as the destination is approaching.
I didn’t understand, even though I tried to, but that is me.
I’m only nine years old and I have never been to school: the Dalits are not allowed to.
Also, why go to school?
Dalits were born to do hard and dirty work.
This is their dharma.
Klaus, l tell you, has superhuman patience.
He looks like a real Sahib from New Delhi.
They specifically made him that way so that he could walk among ordinary people and not to attract particular attention to himself.
Mukesh, who sold me for ten thousand rupees, was ready to bargain with everyone, even with foreigners from the West, even with rakshasas from Naraka, as long as he was paid a good price.
Klaus was sent to Mukesh by Skipper, Rico and Kowalski.
They are, of course, not rakshasas, and they don’t really look human, because they are aliens, mlecchas, from the Mimosa system.
You can never tell exactly what they are thinking when you look at them.
They look funny.
They are so clumsy and plump and move in a peculiar way – like a waddle.
But you’d better watch out for them!
To be honest, I’m little afraid of them.
Not as much as at first, but still a little.
When they kept me in Mukesh’s place, I was even more afraid, because I didn’t know who they would sell me to and what they would do to me.
I prayed that they would take me to New Delhi, to some rich house - to wash clothes, to wash dishes and to clean up.
I heard that beggars are purposely maimed.
Having no choice, I went to Klaus, who stood near the car in the cruel sun, as if he didn’t feel the heat at all.
I was worried though.
I kept looking out the window, because I had never been anywhere other than Gunloy.
I saw passing elephants… nothing particularly interesting.
I don’t know how long we rode because I fell asleep on the way…
I couldn’t imagine where the white sahib had taken me in his black car.
Not to New Delhi, not to Mumbai, not even to America.
It must be somewhere much further.
So far away that I couldn’t even get my head around it.
So, Klaus took me directly to heaven. Really!
But this is not the same heaven as Svarga.
Klaus said that this heaven is called ”space” and extends much further than the North Star: up and down and in all directions.
And near many of those stars various aliens would live.
So I found myself on a vimana of aliens traveling among the stars.
It was scary and exciting at the same time.
The whole thing is weird to me here, and it all makes my head spin.
Klaus was standing by my side the whole time.
I realized that he was not a sahib, but kind of a naukar serving the aliens.
It did, however, make me wonder why the Mlecchas needed me.
They also made the air cooler.
But the most amazing thing was that they gave me my own room.
I had a TV and I could watch different movies and cartoons.
I also had picture books.
I couldn’t read, but I could look at pictures.
Most of all I liked to draw.
Klaus brought me a whole stack of paper and many crayons especially for this purpose.
I spent hours drawing while humming songs that I had heard in my village.
Skipper, Rico and Kowalski came to watch me draw.
I drew them too.
I think they liked them because they took my drawings for themselves.
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