I'm going to seek apology from you right in the beginning itself coz for all the wonderful 20 updates you've given, this is my first comment but gonna be long but doesn't make up right?! I'm so sorry for that..not that I've been tied up with work but somehow after reading each update, I was at a loss of words..my mind would be so occupied with the story..!! Each chap bought out a new feeling in me - sometimes it would be euphoria, sometimes agony, sometimes sadness, sometimes anger and admonishment but truly I discovered a new feeling every time I read a new chap!! And that is only and only because of you..the way you potray the emotions and feelings..that the reader automatically connects to it and is able to feel it!
They usually say it is easy to say why you dislike/hate a certain thing, you'll have a hundred reasons for it..but to put down in words and reasons why you love a particular thing it's very very difficult..The same case here..I've so many innumerous reasons why I so love this FF(I damn loved Spiral Staircase too but tof this genre I'm totally in love with this!!)!! Be it the way you potrayed the friendship b/w Anjali-Payal-Khushi, the relation b/w Akash-Khushi, the bro-sis Rustam-Khushi, the mother-daughter Naila-Khushi, Khushi's realation with Vidhya, the way Khushi makes Arnav realise his importance his family, that his family still cares for him, Gilani Sahib having so much of love and respect for his late friend, his love for his friend's son, his concern for Arnav, his love for his family, his love for his motherland, his strong belief that things will change, the way he loved and supported his daughter, the way Naila was furious in the beginning when she knew something was up b/w Arnav-Kushi, her confessing to her daughter that she was like her in the past, the last move where with all confidence and certainity she pushes Khushi into Arnav's arms knowing that her daughter will be completely safe with him and might be slight joy that her daughter has got her true love, the Arnav-Khushi confrontations, the way both were mesmerized by each other, their physical attraction, his want to clear up the misunderstanding she had abt him and La, Khushi's excitement over the feeling she had abt Aranv, her chirpy nature in the beginning, the way Arnav realized the complications of their relation, Khushi's agony and lament after she comes to know that she's got to marry Shamsher and Aranv's gonna marry someone else, the care-concern the brothers Arnav-Akash had for the Gilani family, the way Arnav wanted them shifteds to Lahore, the way Akash was advising Rustam, the way those small children died in the name of religion and partition, the way the Gilani family the father-mother-son sacrifised themselves, the concern Arnav had for his family, his fear of losing Akash, his fear of losing Khushi, his repentance and guilt of not able to save the Gilani family, his agony-pain when he saw Khushi all broken and bruised mentally and physically, the way a hard, arrogant, supposed to be ruthless person could provide a bit of solace and comfort to that girl who'd lost her everything in front of her own eyes, the trauma both of them are facing, the panchayat's discussion on how a Muslim unmarried girl has been in their house, Arnav's firm decision of marrying Khushi,of protecting her, him marrying her, taking the pheras, filling her maang, feeling like a rapist while consumating, Khushi's point blank stare when he removed of her pallu, her questioning eyes when he stopped in mid and covered her up, her guilt that she'd all the way prayed for this and today when she has got what she wants, she's not interested or to say it doesn't even hold importance to her coz she's had to pay a heavy price for it, all the way he'd wanted her and now she's rightly his but the conscience and guilt makes sure that he can never ever relish and enjoy that!! Indeed both of them have paid a very heavy price!! And these are just few of the reasons why I love this FF and there are many more..But the main thing here is the way you've laced each and every word, each and every sentence with intenisity!! With honesty I do, accept that sometimes I might skip certain lines of an update but here I've made sure I dont skip even a single sentence coz that's the way you've written it!!
I never knew someone could do so justice based on this particular genre, based on this particular backdrop but you've exceeded all my expectations and oh yes it's way beyond my imagination..I mean I never knew or could have never thought how the partition affected people..For one who's bad at history..this came very much as an eye-opening one!! The terror they must have faced, the agony those millions of people had gone through, those billions hearts that must have shattered..I'd just fleetingly heard about it but when I read the story I'd just not been moved..I was moved to tears..!! I've never cried for any story or movie coz at the end of day I used to always tell myself it's just fiction but when I read abt that innocent child's death, the way Rustam and Gilanis died I literally cried..it was heart-wrenching..so much of depth in it that it's difficult to fathom in words!! To say that I love reading this is an understatement!! Hats off to you, I definitiely owe you one <3 I've stored it in my comp and I re-read it again and again and everytime i do that i look at it in a new way and I get a new meaning! To say that you are one of THE BEST/AMAZING/ FANTASTIC/FABULOUS/BRILLIANT/SPLENDID writers is the least I can do :)
Cont soon and thanks a lot for coming up with back-to-back updates <3 <3 as well as for the pm's :D
Sia
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