Mehul was in her early forties, she was gentle, well mannered, pretty, single by choice, because she did not believed in compromising with her dignity, hence, the sincere attempts by her lower middle class family did not worked. Either she rejected the suitors because they were not of her brainwave or they rejected her because she did not had enough dowry packet to offer to them.
She was working as an administrative executive in a small private firm, it paid her enough to take care of herself and her parents modestly.
It has been raining cats and dogs since the morning, so, when Mehul left for home in the evening the road was a river and the water reached her knee. There was no bus in sight so she started to walk towards the direction of her home. After a walking for a considerable stretch she reached dry area but no bus was in sight, she was standing in the bus stand, feeling bewildered, all of a sudden a taxi stopped there and a few guys came out of it, they looked drunk, she looked around but could not see any one in sight, she did not thought it wise to stand there, hence she started to walk in the direction of her home, a chill ran down her spine when the taxi blocked her way within five minutes, she was thinking about sprinting to a run when another car stopped, a guy rolled down his window and asked if she was having any problem.
One of the guys roughly told him to mind his own business and move away if he wants to move at all. The guy gently brought out a revolver out of the window and dared them to touch Mehul, the guys scurried away like a bunch of rats.
The guy opened the door of the car and asked Mehul to get in, she looked inside the car, the guy was the only person in the car, seeing her hesitation, he said that those people may resurface again if he leaves. So he came out of the car and stood beside her, she saw that he was visibly limping. He waited with her till a bus arrived, he told her his name, Arman, he was an airforce officer, had to leave the force after being wounded, at present he is running his own business.
As she already had more than one reason to like him Mehul did not minded exchanging phone numbers, next morning her phone rang, it was Arman, he asked her if she reached home safely, and she invited him for tea.
They met next Sunday, they became fast friends very soon, because every thing matched, starting from the nature to choice. They were of the same age also, Arman was one month older than Mehul.
A few months later Mehul asked Arman why he was not married, Arman replied after a little hesitation that he was engaged when the accident occurred. But, the accident made him incapable of being a father, so, he persuaded his fiancé to marry some one else. He did not wanted to ruin some one’s life.
Mehul asked him after a brief pause, that why did he thought that a woman’s life can be wasted after having a life partner like him? Arman replied that most of the people marry to have family, Mehul replied may be, but not every one.
A little more time passed, with every passing day they both realized that they may not have any problem in life without each other, but, some how they were feeling each other’s absence too much, Mehul was shy to propose and Arman cared for her happiness more than his own.
Mehul’s mother understood her daughter’s pain and consulted with her father, they both slowly brought Arman out of his complex, that marrying does not means having a father for one’s children or a protector for oneself to every woman. To some women it means having a companion, a person who they can respect, and look up to for the entire life, a partner in every sense.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
give and take
When Pallavi finally found out Jyotika she was standing alone on the roof humming some thing softly. Pallavi tiptoed to her and playfully startled her, they both giggled merrily and sat down on the swing side by side.
They were close friends, very fond of each other, Pallavi was light hearted, bubbly and Jyotika silent, deep. This contrast made their friendship tie even more strong, Jyotika looked up at Pallavi for cheering her up and Pallavi at Jyotika for counsel.
Pallavi asked Jyotika after babbling for a little time that if she can ask her some thing serious.
When her request was accepted she asked Jyotika if she regrets her decision of marrying Nayan.
Jyotika laughed and answered, “Not an inch!”
Pallavi sat silent for a few minutes and then asked her “Did you loved Pavan?”
Jyotika softly said, “With all my heart , but Pavan has told me directly that he did not loved me and will never be interested in me”.
Pallavi asked “Why did you gave up so easily, you might have tried a little to make him love you.”
In response to her question Jyotika broke down into peal of laughter.
She softly placed her palm on her friend’s palm and said “I have tried in all the way that a dignified woman can, who is madly in love with some one, but all my attempts were ignored with extreme kindness and politeness. Love is a game of give and take, it is worthy only when it gets its return. I used to dote on Pavan but he loved me as a friend, my heart was bleeding from his constant rejection and then Nayan came, and he fell in love with me, he started to shower me with his affection and even though I was in love with Pavan I started to realize that I will be able to love Nayan very easily because his love for me was too overwhelming and deep”.
“Hence when Nayan proposed me i married him”.
Pallavi asked her, “What will you do if Pavan comes back into your life, madly in love with you? It often happens in real life, does not it?”
Jyotika shrugged her shoulder and said “There is only one form in which Pavan can now return to my life, that is of a platonic friend”.
Then she gently said, “You know Pallavi, you cant make any one love you, but you can make yourself love any one until and unless that person is not utterly disagreeable in your eyes, when I loved Pavan and failed I was in a deep darkness, then Nayan came, he doted after me, and his affection made me forget my gloom, I slowly started to judge him whether or not he has the qualities which are essential for me in my spouse and realized he had all the things which I feel should be present in my spouse and to my greatest fortune he is madly in love with me. So I decided to change myself and give him his due affection and I succeeded. So Pavan is just a friend to me, my love for him has become platonic affection after I married Nayan. Because I believe that amorous love is only for husband, not even for lover”.
Pallavi hugged her tightly and they both sat side by side on the jhoola watching moon shine over trees and buildings.
They were close friends, very fond of each other, Pallavi was light hearted, bubbly and Jyotika silent, deep. This contrast made their friendship tie even more strong, Jyotika looked up at Pallavi for cheering her up and Pallavi at Jyotika for counsel.
Pallavi asked Jyotika after babbling for a little time that if she can ask her some thing serious.
When her request was accepted she asked Jyotika if she regrets her decision of marrying Nayan.
Jyotika laughed and answered, “Not an inch!”
Pallavi sat silent for a few minutes and then asked her “Did you loved Pavan?”
Jyotika softly said, “With all my heart , but Pavan has told me directly that he did not loved me and will never be interested in me”.
Pallavi asked “Why did you gave up so easily, you might have tried a little to make him love you.”
In response to her question Jyotika broke down into peal of laughter.
She softly placed her palm on her friend’s palm and said “I have tried in all the way that a dignified woman can, who is madly in love with some one, but all my attempts were ignored with extreme kindness and politeness. Love is a game of give and take, it is worthy only when it gets its return. I used to dote on Pavan but he loved me as a friend, my heart was bleeding from his constant rejection and then Nayan came, and he fell in love with me, he started to shower me with his affection and even though I was in love with Pavan I started to realize that I will be able to love Nayan very easily because his love for me was too overwhelming and deep”.
“Hence when Nayan proposed me i married him”.
Pallavi asked her, “What will you do if Pavan comes back into your life, madly in love with you? It often happens in real life, does not it?”
Jyotika shrugged her shoulder and said “There is only one form in which Pavan can now return to my life, that is of a platonic friend”.
Then she gently said, “You know Pallavi, you cant make any one love you, but you can make yourself love any one until and unless that person is not utterly disagreeable in your eyes, when I loved Pavan and failed I was in a deep darkness, then Nayan came, he doted after me, and his affection made me forget my gloom, I slowly started to judge him whether or not he has the qualities which are essential for me in my spouse and realized he had all the things which I feel should be present in my spouse and to my greatest fortune he is madly in love with me. So I decided to change myself and give him his due affection and I succeeded. So Pavan is just a friend to me, my love for him has become platonic affection after I married Nayan. Because I believe that amorous love is only for husband, not even for lover”.
Pallavi hugged her tightly and they both sat side by side on the jhoola watching moon shine over trees and buildings.
Game of love
Shruti was habituated of having her way through out her life, she was the pretty daughter of a well to do family, smart, prettily dressed. She was madly in love with Brij, her bachelor boss, who just was not interested to warm up to her, the reason was even more infuriating, he was in love with a colleague of her, who was atleast four or five years older than him and eight years older than her. Shree was not her competitor in any way, she was ordinary, from ordinary family back ground, the ordinary next door girl. And to add up to the frustration she was not even the least romantically interested in Brij. She treated him with the same affection she used to treat the bell boy of the office, even that was not able to douse the flame burning in Brij’s heart.
She requested her best friends to help her, her friends thought it was their duty to help her, hence they plotted a plan. Just like youngsters they thought that out of sight is out of mind will be the best modus operandi.
Hence they decided that they will make Shree leave the office and once she is out of office Shruti will play her charm on Brij. Shruti started to mingle with Shree hiding her true intention. Shree accepted her with open arms because she found no reason to mistrust a girl who was seven or eight years younger than her and was always sweet to her.
Shruti slowly started to play her game, she used to do things deliberately which she knew will infuriate or trouble Shree. She discovered that Shree had one big weak point, she was not a good actor, if she was upset about some thing it used to reflect on her face and she hated double standard people, she instantly turned cold towards them and pushed them away from her.
She discussed this weakness with her friends and they decided to zero on it, they all of a sudden surrounded Shree showing overwhelming affection for her. Shree was pleasantly surprised, because she had an inferiority complex about her shy nature, she always thought that people think that she is boring. Hence, when that bright group of boys and girls surrounded her she became overwhelmed. She never suspected that it was a trap.
Shruti and her friends used to show deep affection for her when Brij or his father was there but the moment they used to move away they used to show her cold shoulder, but veiled in politeness, so she could not say any thing against them. They used to move around her as a group pretending to be charmed by her personality. Slowly they started their game, they used to wait for the moment she had to go out of her cabin and used to tamper her works.
Initially she used to think that it was her fault but slowly she became sure that some one was tampering her work, and for that getting rebuked from Brij’s father became an every day’s affair. Even Brij had to tell her that she should concentrate on her work. She could not complain to them like a school kid that some one was tampering her work. Nor did she suspected for a second that an entire group was against her, because they did not showed overwhelming affection for Shruti. they have left their personal life out of the territory of the office. In office they were just colleagues.
Shree was blindly looking for a single culprit, she had her suspicion on Shruti because she had realized by her talks that she was smitten by Brij, she have felt Brij’s eyes on her but did not entertained him because she was aware of her social status, hence, she in her foolish thought process thought that Shruti also knows the same and does not counts her as her rival, but her inner self was telling her that she was reading Shruti wrong. She committed her second blunder by confiding in her friends that she had suspicions on Shruti.
They understood that they have the trump card in their hands, they vehemently discussed the matter amongst themselves in a manner that Brij overheard it and thought that Shree was jealous of Shruti because she was pretty, young and more efficient.
That formed the first crack in Brij’s heart which they expertly made wide, they slow poisoned Brij’s mind in one hand and on the other hand they made Shree’s staying in the office impossible. They painted her image black in Brij and his father’s eyes. And canvassed Shruti so much that Shruti’s dream was fulfilled, Brij fell for her and Shree changed her job.
Time passed on, Brij and Shruti got married, they had a lovely daughter. One day Brij was visiting the office of one of his friends when he saw Shree working there, as a manager. He was surprised. He asked his friend how much he rates Shree as a staff and to his utter shock he told him that she is one of the most efficient, perfectionist and well mannered employees.
She has transformed his office and made an energetic team out of his employees who were divided into small spheres before she became their manager. Brij was surprised, he indirectly told the story that happened in his office, hiding that one of them was his wife, his friend laughed and told him that’s a common office politics of small offices, they do it to throw out efficient workers so that the competition dies.
He expertly explained the things that happened in Brij’s office from the office politics angle, a veil lifted from his eyes, he went back to his home in a grim mood. Shruti came to meet him with a warm smile. He returned her a blank gaze.
He softly narrated the story told to him by his friends and saw the colour fading away from the face of his wife. After confirming his suspicion, he asked her only one question, did you had to be this cheap to have the thing you wanted but some one else deserved?
She requested her best friends to help her, her friends thought it was their duty to help her, hence they plotted a plan. Just like youngsters they thought that out of sight is out of mind will be the best modus operandi.
Hence they decided that they will make Shree leave the office and once she is out of office Shruti will play her charm on Brij. Shruti started to mingle with Shree hiding her true intention. Shree accepted her with open arms because she found no reason to mistrust a girl who was seven or eight years younger than her and was always sweet to her.
Shruti slowly started to play her game, she used to do things deliberately which she knew will infuriate or trouble Shree. She discovered that Shree had one big weak point, she was not a good actor, if she was upset about some thing it used to reflect on her face and she hated double standard people, she instantly turned cold towards them and pushed them away from her.
She discussed this weakness with her friends and they decided to zero on it, they all of a sudden surrounded Shree showing overwhelming affection for her. Shree was pleasantly surprised, because she had an inferiority complex about her shy nature, she always thought that people think that she is boring. Hence, when that bright group of boys and girls surrounded her she became overwhelmed. She never suspected that it was a trap.
Shruti and her friends used to show deep affection for her when Brij or his father was there but the moment they used to move away they used to show her cold shoulder, but veiled in politeness, so she could not say any thing against them. They used to move around her as a group pretending to be charmed by her personality. Slowly they started their game, they used to wait for the moment she had to go out of her cabin and used to tamper her works.
Initially she used to think that it was her fault but slowly she became sure that some one was tampering her work, and for that getting rebuked from Brij’s father became an every day’s affair. Even Brij had to tell her that she should concentrate on her work. She could not complain to them like a school kid that some one was tampering her work. Nor did she suspected for a second that an entire group was against her, because they did not showed overwhelming affection for Shruti. they have left their personal life out of the territory of the office. In office they were just colleagues.
Shree was blindly looking for a single culprit, she had her suspicion on Shruti because she had realized by her talks that she was smitten by Brij, she have felt Brij’s eyes on her but did not entertained him because she was aware of her social status, hence, she in her foolish thought process thought that Shruti also knows the same and does not counts her as her rival, but her inner self was telling her that she was reading Shruti wrong. She committed her second blunder by confiding in her friends that she had suspicions on Shruti.
They understood that they have the trump card in their hands, they vehemently discussed the matter amongst themselves in a manner that Brij overheard it and thought that Shree was jealous of Shruti because she was pretty, young and more efficient.
That formed the first crack in Brij’s heart which they expertly made wide, they slow poisoned Brij’s mind in one hand and on the other hand they made Shree’s staying in the office impossible. They painted her image black in Brij and his father’s eyes. And canvassed Shruti so much that Shruti’s dream was fulfilled, Brij fell for her and Shree changed her job.
Time passed on, Brij and Shruti got married, they had a lovely daughter. One day Brij was visiting the office of one of his friends when he saw Shree working there, as a manager. He was surprised. He asked his friend how much he rates Shree as a staff and to his utter shock he told him that she is one of the most efficient, perfectionist and well mannered employees.
She has transformed his office and made an energetic team out of his employees who were divided into small spheres before she became their manager. Brij was surprised, he indirectly told the story that happened in his office, hiding that one of them was his wife, his friend laughed and told him that’s a common office politics of small offices, they do it to throw out efficient workers so that the competition dies.
He expertly explained the things that happened in Brij’s office from the office politics angle, a veil lifted from his eyes, he went back to his home in a grim mood. Shruti came to meet him with a warm smile. He returned her a blank gaze.
He softly narrated the story told to him by his friends and saw the colour fading away from the face of his wife. After confirming his suspicion, he asked her only one question, did you had to be this cheap to have the thing you wanted but some one else deserved?
fluff
Rick has just descended from the auto rickshaw with his mother he saw him, he was standing on the pavement looking at them, his eyes were bright, shining. Rick looked at his mother, she was busy with the auto driver. He went straight to him and fished out a biscuit from his bag, Fluff ate it up hungrily and looked at him with great eagerness, his tiny tail wagging from side to side crazily. Rick searched for more biscuit but could not get one, by then his mother has finished her business, she took Rick’s hand and started to walk towards their housing. After walking a few minutes Rick looked back, Fluff was following them. His mother also looked back, and saw Fluff, she softly reminded Rick that stray dogs are not allowed in their housing and Rick’s face hung.
When the reached the housing Fluff stopped outside, and Rick and his mother went in. he looked at them longingly and Rick looked back at him as far as he could. When they reached their home he asked his mother if he could give Fluff some thing to eat, because he was so hungry. Aparna said, ok, but outside the apartment premises. Rick went outside and started to look for Fluff, he was sitting right where they have left him, quivering with eagerness. Rick gave him the food and water and stood there, he finished it up within a few minutes. Rick collected the plate and went back home, Fluff followed him to the gate.
In the night Rick requested Aparna for some food for Fluff and got it, he again stood there watching him eat before coming back. A couple of months passed, one day Rick’s father came back in the night, he told them that they have been transferred to a small town, where they will have their personal quarter, with garden. They will have to leave within a month.
That evening Rick went out with a sad heart, he gave Fluff his food sadly, and stood there watching him eat, he knew that their separation is near. So, his attachment for Fluff increased. In the night Aparna woke up and found that Rick was not in bed, she went out looking for him and saw him standing in the balcony, she asked him what is he doing there, and he replied sadly that he was thinking that what would happen to Fluff.
Aparna gently wrapped her arm around him and brought him back to the bed, he fell asleep but his tiny face was sad. The next afternoon when they were coming back Aparna observed Fluff for the first time, he was a tiny puppy, brown in colour with black shining eyes, his eyes were brimming with affection and loyalty while he was walking meekly behind Rick.
That night Aparna asked Arindam, her husband, that if it was possible to take Fluff with them to Purulia. Arindam thought for a few seconds and then replied why not.
When the reached the housing Fluff stopped outside, and Rick and his mother went in. he looked at them longingly and Rick looked back at him as far as he could. When they reached their home he asked his mother if he could give Fluff some thing to eat, because he was so hungry. Aparna said, ok, but outside the apartment premises. Rick went outside and started to look for Fluff, he was sitting right where they have left him, quivering with eagerness. Rick gave him the food and water and stood there, he finished it up within a few minutes. Rick collected the plate and went back home, Fluff followed him to the gate.
In the night Rick requested Aparna for some food for Fluff and got it, he again stood there watching him eat before coming back. A couple of months passed, one day Rick’s father came back in the night, he told them that they have been transferred to a small town, where they will have their personal quarter, with garden. They will have to leave within a month.
That evening Rick went out with a sad heart, he gave Fluff his food sadly, and stood there watching him eat, he knew that their separation is near. So, his attachment for Fluff increased. In the night Aparna woke up and found that Rick was not in bed, she went out looking for him and saw him standing in the balcony, she asked him what is he doing there, and he replied sadly that he was thinking that what would happen to Fluff.
Aparna gently wrapped her arm around him and brought him back to the bed, he fell asleep but his tiny face was sad. The next afternoon when they were coming back Aparna observed Fluff for the first time, he was a tiny puppy, brown in colour with black shining eyes, his eyes were brimming with affection and loyalty while he was walking meekly behind Rick.
That night Aparna asked Arindam, her husband, that if it was possible to take Fluff with them to Purulia. Arindam thought for a few seconds and then replied why not.
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