My Second Identification Mark

I had already mentioned how I got my first identification mark. But you have to have two identification marks in every document. Even my second identification mark has a small history.

There were lots of incidents in my childhood, which had given me a few small scars here and there. These, I consider normal because, any child worth his name should be having them. These do not qualify for identification marks. But the scar on my forehead, which I acquired when I was seven or eight years old, is a beauty.

The fall was very normal as any child could trip and fall while running and playing. But there was a sharp stone, providence had kept ready for piercing my forehead with and unsuspectingly, I fell on to that. Again, one of grandma's medicine - grandma's medicines were what saved me on many such occasions to come out of such accidents unscathed - was used. The black soot on the wooden ceiling in kitchen, mixed with sugar, ground to a powder was filled in the wound. Whether any other ingredient was added I wouldn't know. It is quite possible some herb or the other, which there were plenty in our compound, might have been added. The wound healed over a month leaving a bluish mark on my forehead, almost in the middle like a pottu (a ‘dot’ as they call it).