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Lost and Found: The Kohinoor Diamond

Raju ran and picked up the stone. “Hey, you dropped
this!” he shouted.

The boy stopped, looked back and saw Raju holding the
stone in his hand, calling him to come back. He walked
back to him. “Oh, thank you! My mother would have
scolded me so much!” he said.

“Not a problem. But what is this?” asked Raju.

The boy looked left and right. He looked all around before
leading Raju to a corner of the road. Deepu and Sonia,
feeling left out, went behind them too.

“Don’t tell anybody. This is a part of the Kohinoor
diamond! You know about it, don’t you?” he asked Raju.

“Kohinoor?” Raju could not contain his excitement. “Yes,
of course! It was a part of the decorations of this very fort
we are standing in front of. The Red Fort! And it was taken
by the Britishers,” he said. Sonia nodded her head
vigorously.

“Not just that. Our government is negotiating with the
British government to get it back,” said Deepu.

“Wow, you guys know it all!” said the boy. “So you know
that a part of it was kept back by the soldiers of the Red

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