A Day At The Movies
Big days meant making big decisions, or so believed Akanksha and it was precisely one such day . A day when Akanksha and Tanay were going to watch a movie at a theatre all by themselves for the first time ever! What is the big deal about a couple of twenty one year olds going to watch a movie all on their own, you may wonder . Well , it is a big deal when the twenty one year olds in question are non speaking autistics who type to communicate and who experience the world as differently as Akanksha and Tanay did! Akanksha remembered Tanay’s response to the grand movie plan , when she suggested it during their weekly Cubbon Park jaunt , very vividly . ‘What !’, he had typed, his face replete with shock and disbelief , ‘why do you want to go to a dark , claustrophobic and noisy place ? What is wrong with Cubbon Park ?’ ‘What can be wrong with Cubbon Park?’, typed Akanksha, even as she made a childish face , ‘nothing , except I am bored of it and want to do something different for a chang