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In the land of happiness

Long long ago there lived a king and a queen in the land of happiness, ‘Sukhinagar’. They lived in great bliss with their son, Arup and daughter, Priya. King Manik and Queen Heera were very kind, just and generous to all their subjects. In their kingdom everybody was very happy. The king used to be upset when his subjects were even the least bit sad and took immediate measures to solve all their problems. Time passed without any trouble for many, many years.

Then one day, another king started visiting Sukhinagar. He was a wicked king. He started to give bad ideas to the king of Sukhinagar. When the queen came to know about this, she wanted to find a way so that the two kings did not become friends.

Arup and Priya and Queen Heera started to formulate a plan. They thought and thought till they had a wonderful idea!  King Manik invited the wicked king to his durbar (court). He was given a royal reception. The wicked king was greeted with flowers and with honour and even given a royal treat. Finally it was time to leave. King Manik called for his minister to speak on this beautiful occasion. The Minister, after thanking everyone, started to recite a magic Mantra (spell) and to everyone’s astonishment the wicked king gradually became smaller and smaller and then was trapped inside a balloon! The balloon began to fly high up in the sky and floated away further and further, never to return!

The country thus got rid of the wicked king and everybody was happy again. Never since has anybody tried to do Sukhinagar any harm and it has remained a land of happiness, forever more.

Sudip uses a communication display which has few words with pictures and all the letters of the Bengali alphabet. Sudip pointed at the letters to form a word and the teacher wrote it for him. After construction of each sentence the text was read out to him. After 3-4 sentences, it was read out to him again and he had the choice of continuing with the sequence or modify the text. Sudip was also given a few key words to help him develop the story.