The Disgraced Star.

The Disgraced Star [Every story has a background. This story was conceived when standard XII Arts B students talked to me about their problem of writing a story. I told them that all the notes, tips and so on would not help them much unless they took to writing stories passionately. The best way to learn story writing is by trying to write a story yourself. I asked them to write a story with the above title. Initially I had asked them to write with the title ‘The Fallen Star’ but I changed it to the above title later. I finished writing half of the story in the class itself. I even shared it with Ms. Sangay Lhamo. I finished the rest of it after getting back home this afternoon.] A piece of news published in the Kuensel, the national newspaper of Bhutan, caught my attention as I was sipping my coffee in bed. My wife, Tshewang, was in the bathtub. She was freakish about having a shower almost on a regular basis and there was an aura, a glow about her that would put even the Lux gi...