P&P with a twist IV - Page 17

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Posted: 4 years ago

I am with Viveka on the Kheer. I like mine warm. No cold kheer for me.

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Posted: 4 years ago

Viveka feels Raanav fits with Naina. And here Rakshit is feeling he fits with Lekha. Such a parallel between their thoughts.

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Posted: 4 years ago

Azaadi & Rights

He is in the dog house. Brings her back home and then works.

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Posted: 4 years ago

Bookmark

He got her the perfect gift. That book means a lot to her. The bracelet is just the icing.

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Posted: 4 years ago

Investment & Indignity

She didn’t expect to see him at night at a friend’s barsati/top floor apartment in the DDA colony, she spent the day at Shahpur Jat doing aroll call, figuring out next steps for establishing a permanent outpost for the NGO, with a store front of sorts, Dilli Haat was out of question too much politics and too many hoops to jump through

Halima, Ishwar Ratna Farha and Suhani and her sat on the dhurried floor and went through every scenario, every accounting transaction from the last year, profit was negligible but they were not in the red

Every craftsman was going to get a modest bonus

She cringed to take even a penny from the initiative

She had recorded auto, bus fare or Metro fare when Ishwar and Naina insisted she be paid for her effort

Now she considered paying it back to the NGO even Rs. 10,000 was going to pay the 10 craftspersons Rs.1,000 each

“Didi aap padhe jaogey na Kharagpur?” Suhani questioned

“Bas aap mujhe smart samajhte ho, college waale nahi” she chuckled

She sniffled trying to fight a sneeze….

“To theek hai aap naye naam ko register karwa do, main phir yaha se nikalne ke baat kar leta hoon property dealer se”

“Naam ko lottery style mein nikalte hain” she laughed sneezing

“Iqrar aur Malti ne jo choose kiya last time who rakh lete hain” ratna laughed trying to look for that file in her C drive

“hamey Cloud ke liye pay karna shuru kar dena chahiye, har koi hamare files ko kahin bhi access kar sakta hai”

“Bijli chali gayi tab bhi?” Suhani asked

“TAB nahi” Viveka laughed shaking her head folding her hands in prayer

“Phir kya fayda”

“Keh doongi Bezos ko” Viveka laughed

“who kya hai?”

“KAUN hai… banda hai”

Viveka spent the next 20 minutes explaining how it all worked

She had a white board on the naked brick wall it was the most useful investment she had made

“Mujhe teacher ban jaana chahiye” she sighed staring at the image

“who to aap ho Didi” Sooraj told her with pride

“Cloud computing ki nahi hoon”

Almost all of the office staff or people that had a bachelors degree had laptops

She wanted to surprise the last two this week

Amba and Walid were the only ones without it. It would be great to buy some kind of inventory SW as well but there was no money for that

Abhishek had texted her this morning

“Are you going to the India in the 21st Century conclave at Vigyan Bhawan?”

She was shocked to see his message

“This is Viveka” she returned

“I KNOW, tu ekdum ghoomi hui hai”

“Oh”

“Are u going?”

“I don’t know…. I have to check with my husband first”

“Ghar se nahi nikalne deta kya tujhe?”

“That’s a great way to start talking Abhishek, I wont answer that…”

“I was hoping we can all represent D School of Economics”

“Are they giving out free tickets?”

She didn’t hear back for 3 hours

She had sent Rathiji off saying she will work till the evening

She wanted to take the Metro to see her JNU friends today she was disturbed by Smrita’s texts

When she was done at JNU, Raanav texted her as if on cue

“Do u have a ride”

“I believe I do” she said pretending to sound sincere

“Ah, can I talk to him please?”

“Abhi main building me hoon”

“I can wait”

“I can call back”

“K”

She frantically tried to reach Rathiji

No answer

“Hes not here”

“I know Viveka Mathur”

“Meri test le rahe the?” she was irritated

“U can ride home with Mum, she is on her way back”

“NO… I am OK”

“Whoa?”

“I am fine I just realized…”

“What”

“Umm.”

“I can, I have to go figure something about a Vigyan Bhawan thing”

“She is almost at the gate Vi” he was irritated

“Mujhse nahi pooch sakte the?” she was hopping mad

“WHY?” he was angry too “Uve been told a zillion times u are not supposed to let the driver go. You let go of him you lie to me and don’t want to ride with my Mum”

“I didn’t let him go I told him I will get a ride home around 6ish”

“Well he scraped a sidewalk to avoid a redline bus but hit it anyway they are trying to impound it near airport”

“Was I supposed to know this would happen”

“I am done arguing with you”

“I don’t need a ride?”

“WHY?”

“Because ur mother told me we don’t have to be civil to each other when no one is watching and I refuse to ride with her pretending to be civil I would rather take a Metro home.” She was in tears as she hung up

He had seen his mother’s text this morning he was already upset with his Dad about a work thing, his cold war with Satyen was never ending

His mother had p---ed him off also

He chose to ignore her text

But now it was coming back to bite him

“Vi” he texted

And called

“Mujhe call mat karo”

“TEXT in ENGLISH for God’s sake”

“Grow up! TRANSLATE!”

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Posted: 4 years ago

“Grow up! TRANSLATE!”

🤣🤣

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Posted: 4 years ago

Absolutely loved the update. Everything about it.

Viveka took Satyen's advice and spoke her mind to her husband.

Way to go girl.

Ranaav has to make a choce:

Wife/Mother

Right/Wrong

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Posted: 4 years ago

I feel Ra and Vi's relationship is going in a good direction. They are coming little closer. She is accepting his gifts, he is becoming more observant and concerned. She chose to share her apprehension about his mother with him. I hope Raanav will take some stand this time.

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Posted: 4 years ago

The Cold War at multiple levels in multiple relationships is getting to a point where it's going to be a nasty public showdown of sorts. There's now too much negative energy everyone's inhaling at the parashar mansion.


I for one don't honestly get Satyen's actions. His rude awakening to the most obvious/ disagreeable facts and his dissing smrita and Raanav is not going to get the redemption out of them. Even His reprimand at multiple levels in multiple relationships is doing more harm than good.


I think his most sane course of action to strive for 'civility ' would be to let Raanav and veev 'Go'. I mean really LET GO. The only way to make smrita bite the dust is her realization that she drove her son away. Even then I wouldn't dream of expecting a redemption from her .

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Posted: 4 years ago

Dadi had given her earful about wasting money on bekaar ki qitaabein when she had told Dadi about what Amartya usually wrote about

“Gareebi to hamare desh mein har jagah hai, uske liye kitab kyon padhogi? BATAO?”


This line from Dadi is a rude awakening too 👏. She is a very wise soul🤣


Brilliant one liner Nisha. Worthy to be "QUOTED"!👏

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