This was one of your most beautiful posts, aunty 😳❤️ It was so heart-warming...
The whole of 'Sunlight on a butterfly's wings' portion was magical. I couldn't decide upon the favourite portions because it was poora ka poora❤️❤️❤️
My favourite bits in other portions...
It is a symbol, for Nandini, that just like his arm, the whole of him belongs to her, and she will assert that right any time and every time. As she turns on her side and prepares to fall asleep, there is a secret little smile in her eyes and her face, which is reflected in his as he looks sideways at her. Awww..mast..
When her attempt, while feigning personal unconcern, to use Chanakya as an effective roadblock to the marriage is stumped by Chandra's sophistry, she is suddenly afflicted by a bout of foot-in-the-mouth disease😆😆
This reached its apogee when Chandra proceeded to pull her leg with a vengeance - with a highly dubious account of his bedroom antics with Roopa, whom, he claimed, he had mistaken for Nandini - all the while watching Nandini's angry reactions with barely hidden amusement, like a cat at a mousehole. 😆😆
His exasperated retort, once the matter is cleared up: To phir mujhe vaanar keh kar kyon nahin bulaya, moorkh?, must belong in the Hall of Fame for the most original romantic lines. That is certainly an original 😆😆
And if they both happened to be re-incarnated in the 21st century , their natural habitat would be a nudist camp! 🤣
...move from the teasing, leg pulling, quarrelling, sulking, jealous, possessive face of love - prem ka pehla rang- to another. The face of loving and giving, like Friday's child. Of instinctive protectiveness in each towards the other. Of a sense of belonging together, irrevocably, now and forever. Of the inability to even visualize one's life without the loved one, or with anyone else.
...this prem ka doosra rang leads to a union of their two identities in a way that is more spiritual than earthly. It is an aatmaon ka sangam that transcends all else, which makes the one feel adhoora, incomplete, without the other. If one could cite the parallel without the fear of being dubbed sacrilegious, it is something like the concept of the ardhanareeswara. In such a union, there is no longer any place for ego, or one-upmanship, or for scoring points off one another. There is only a sense of belonging together, of a shared destiny, of the need to be together till death doth them part. Amazing!!
...the look on her face, as she regards him, is full of melting tenderness and warmth, and as she smiles, the whole gloomy place seems lit up by the radiance in her face and her eyes.
...does not need this mothering bit to have his bond with Nandini enhanced. It is already as strong as spider's silk, which is said to have many times the tensile strength of steel. Spider's silk...what a beautiful way of describing the strength of a relationship❤️
I hope your hands are feeling better, aunty. Thoda pamper karo unko...they've earned it :)) Will wait for your next post.