OS: Musings of Anandi ShivRaj Shekhar

This OS is dedicated to all my AT Peeps and especially Vedo who goaded me to write this and helped me to edit it. All comments are welcome, good bad.😆😆

OS: Musings of Anandi ShivRaj Shekhar

Before marriage in Haveli

Such a soft caress... a touch like a light feather. How soft and nice is the breeze, making the sweet music with my wind chimes as its partner.

Just then my graduation certificate flew by. I hurriedly caught it, before it flies away with the wind and was putting it away when suddenly the name printed there caught my eyes... "Anandi Singh".

Anandi Singh...this is who I am. The one name that stood with me like a shadow, never changing. It was there with me when I was shattered with Jagya's betrayal and his looking down upon me. It was there when I became the Sarpanch, becoming my identity and giving me confidence. That name became a pride not only in this haveli...but in the whole of Jaitsar.

But what is this, how can I forget, soon another name will be linked to my name... "ShivRaj Shekhar"! Will my name...my identity will get lost in the crowd?! No longer will I be Anandi Singh but Anandi ShivRaj Shekhar. Will this give me the same confidence, support and comfort?! I felt so lost that very moment as if something precious will be gone...

After marriage and my entry into haveli:

As soon as I stepped inside, Taisa called me Mrs. Anandi ShivRaj Shekhar. For a while I didn't know how to react. Everything felt so strange; it felt as if she was calling out to someone else. But wait...what is this? Why am I feeling so excited? Why is it sounding like music? Why the very name is bringing a blush on my face? What is happening to me? Why am I not feeling so lost anymore?

At night after Griha Pravesh in CH:

I glanced at Collector Sahab sleeping like a child with full innocence. How different he is, how understanding. Like a true friend he understood my fears and grief in being separated from my Maa, Baapusa, Dadisa, Tausa, Taisa and Nandu. I will never ever forget how he held my hand and wept along with me...sharing my grief and then cracking silly jokes to lighten my mood.

At That very moment, I got the answers that were eluding me. Why I was so happy and excited at being called "Anandi ShivRaj Shekhar". This new name means starting a new life full of happiness, which I know Collector Sahab, by just being there, will give me. This new name is not a loss of my identify, but it means that there is a strong pillar behind me, who will give me support, will prevent my fall, and will push me to new undiscovered heights.

Anandi Shivraj Shekhar is not an end but a sweet beginning to a new and beautiful dawn, giving me the wings to fly into the open sky with no constraints...just freedom.

I glanced again at my sleeping husband's face and slept peacefully...with a smile on my face and sweet dreams of the future.

Its just superb supriya👏

Simple just like anandi yet beautiful, after all its her emotions😳 Loved your wordings. Do keep writing. Loved it.

Originally posted by: vasanthimrao

Its just superb supriya👏

Simple just like anandi yet beautiful, after all its her emotions😳 Loved your wordings. Do keep writing. Loved it.

Thanks Vasanthi

Yeh kya thha yaar!!!

WOW...Supriya...

Thanks Vedo, Myra, and Uma, all this means quite a bit to me. I just thought what anyone of us especially Anandi would have felt and penned it😊😊

supriya it is beautifully written,👏

it gave us an idea how anandi feels about her new name.

for a first attempt it is very nicely written.

do write more,

P. S. thanks vedo for goading supriya.😛

Thanks Anshu. Ab aur OS ke lye toh wait karna padega kyunki woh tabhi milega jab mera phirse courage jaag uthega😆😆

Wow! Supriya that was really awesome! You have perfectly depicted how Anandi would be feeling 😳 .
It has a little bit of shyness, a little bit of cuteness, a little bit of simplicity, a little bit of excitement and little bit of anxiety that every new bride has in her