After a day long grazing near the backwater, all the members in Bhunte’s herd were completely exhausted and tired. Bhunte’s mom cuddled Bhunte and she dozed off. But, Bhunte could not sleep. He slowly untangled himself from his mom’s trunk and came out. He sat down near a small patch of grasses and gasped. It was a full moon night and everything looked perfectly marvelous. Bhunte kept on gazing at the moon. He remembered- someone from his herd told him, the previous night, that moon has lots of holes and they call them “Craters”. Despite having these, her brilliance always captivated all the onlookers. Bhunte saw all that belonged to the night sky – were perfect and beautiful. He observed all those scattered dots of stars and he too dozed off…

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