

Ovi Mhaisekar, Class 7, The Orchid School, Baner, Maharashtra
It was a dark and gloomy day the light fell only on the old park bench. Most people who visited the park, didn’t bother with it.
“Yuck!” they said, looking at it. ”Who would ever want to sit on such a bench?”
What they did not know was that the bench had witnessed the most glorious moments.
The park had once been hosting the after-party of the Grammy Awards. The bench had been brand new back then.
Many famous singers like Michael Jackson had been on the bench “Had I not”, it thought to himself,“ been the centre for all the pictures?”
Dismissing this moment, he thought of another memory. A few months after the Grammys, the park had gotten very famous.
Such was its popularity that the Queen of England decided to pay it a visit. The moment still lived in his head. The Queen had actually sat on him.
“Alas,” it thought.
“There was no possible way the rude visitors of the park would know!”
Thinking this, he rested his mind and gazed upon the other benches.
July, 2025