My Simple Lion Raju, was the pet name of my simple lion Charles Richardson .Christened after the famed officer ,who liberated him from his mother’s arm, and left him alone to cherish his hard found freedom. Really? I don’t know. Who am I to question my commander. “He must be right.” “Am I too timid to reason? Or am I just like Him?” The liberated cub was brought to our camp- They tried to teach him habits, prevalent in the civilized world of ours. They planned, to make that child a gentleman. They chained him , to make their motives clear, They used hunter- (on my child) to instill fear. They barred the sun, from entering my child’s eyes. They stopped the air, from drying my child’s tears. Every night after 10, I sat near him. I tried removing his fear, I tried cloaking memories, of his mother so dear. One beautiful morning, when the officer’s daughter was playing near my cub, somehow, a drop of red blood app...