You don't need feet to dance

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Once upon a time, in a concentration camp, there was a prisoner, who had just

been sentenced to be executed.

 

Few days later, he was seen in the middle of the prison square playing his

guitar.

 

A large crowd of prisoners gathered to listen to this strange music, which

seemed to make the prison walls disappear.

 

When the prison authorities saw this, they immediately passed orders forbidding

the condemned man from playing the guitar.

 

Next day, the man was back in the square singing and strumming his guitar, for a

larger crowd.

 

The guards dragged him off and amputated few of his fingers.

 

Next day, the man was back in the square, singing and strumming his guitar with

whatever fingers that were left, to a cheering crowd.

 

The guards smashed his guitar.

 

Next day the man was back in the square, singing with all his heart.

 

What a song !

 

The crowd joined in and sang with their hearts and for those brief moments, they

were free.

 

So angry were the prison authorities, that they caught the man and had his

tongue torn out, in front of the crowd.

 

The crowd was speechless.

 

And watched a torn bleeding broken figure, stand up and sway and dance to a

music that only he could hear.

 

And the crowd also heard that same music and were helpless but to dance and sway

to that music.

 

 

 

 

 

Sudha Chandran, a contemporary classical Indian dancer, was cut off in the prime

of her dancing career.

Her right leg had to be amputated.

 

After she had been fitted with an artificial leg, she went back to dancing and

made it right back to the position she had earlier.

 

When asked how she had managed, she said quite simply " You don't need feet to

dance".