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Originally posted by: mayyo13

To say that the title of the chapter shocked me would be an understatement. Though I wasn't sure after reading the chapter if it was the end or not but I've read your edited note now and I'm relieved! 😆

😆 I hadn't even thought of it that way until Sampa asked. It just seemed like a fitting title.

"...you don't look as if you've been touched by a holy spirit."
This one made me laugh at first, at the audacity of the man and the awkward situation it would've made for Geet had she been in a normal mood. But when I think over it now, there's a question that coming in my mind. Why do people associate appearances with what kind of a person one might be? Why do they think that a person who wears traditional dresses is the only one who can be religious or something like that? Can't people who wear suits and contemporary clothing have beliefs and can't they also be religious at heart? And can't people who wear traditional clothes be as modern and open in their approach as any other person? I know I'm going off topic here but this is what came to my mind, that it's wrong to assume about someone judging them from how they're dressed.

Exactly. Assumptions, assumptions. We are all guilty and all offended. The ' she's a modern, suit-wearing, working woman so she must not be in touch with her culture/religion/roots etc' is an assumption I've seen often. And don't worry, there's no such thing as 'off topic' here!

" The sensation of being pushed into an ocean bubbled to the surface as she absorbed the ring of finality."
I don't know why I stopped to read and reread this one sentence thrice. Maybe it's because this one sentence proves that up until now, we've believed she was content with what she was doing but that wasn't entirely the case. With this one sentence, it's shown that she still was somewhere dubious about her decision but now she believes there's no turning back, that she's being pulled into a maze and she knows she won't be able to return...

"... the dread that followed brought with it a wistful flash of home."
Home is where the heart is and how-much-ever Geet refuses to accept, her heart is still back there. The first thing to come into her mind at such a time was a reminder of home and the hurt associated with that home came second. That's proof enough to what her deeper desire is; to be at home.

I've found Geet to be a very self-aware woman. Right from her understanding why Maan would say that he doubts their love to now, when she knows that she misses home, it seems that she is exactly aware of what is happening in her life - she's very much tuned in. But the difference for Geet lies not in what she knows but in what she chooses to acknowledge. She suppresses and she ignores, she focuses only on the task at hand. She goes on as if she has not noticed. The exception to this being, of course, the very decision that has brought her to Darjeeling...

"...its beauty lay in its gentle state of dilapidation."
Isn't this the case with everything we come across? Things, people... relations, every single thing on the face of this earth sees its high times and falls. It depends on us to actually see the beauty behind it when it's over its majestic time. A lot of problems would be solved if we started seeing the deeper beauty of things, the beauty that isn't only what is in front of the eyes.

No need for me to add anything here, you've said it all beautifully.

"But what... are you really doing here?"
This question of a stranger in a place like that would've given me chills down my spine. But since I'm reading it, I got goosebumps. There's a strange time when everybody around you seems to know that you're in a difficult situation even though you try hard to cover it up. It always makes you feel paranoid if you land up in such company!

There are some people in this world, I believe, who just know. They look at you and they just know what's wrong, what's right, what you need. A completely unnerving idea, I think, putting your fate into the hands of a stranger who knows more than you've shared...

"...Welcome to your new home."
What does this mean? It's deeper than it appears, I know that but it doesn't give me a good feeling. It doesn't feel like a guest is being warmly welcomed in the guest house for her stay. Rather the man has made it seem like she's left her home for good to settle down here.

And now when I think about the title of the chapter, does it mean that a phase of Geet's life has ended? A painful phase. Will this end make way to new beginnings for her, to lead her life the way she wants to and with the people she wishes to be with...?
Only the coming story can answer the questions.

I'll leave it to you all to find your own meaning for the title and for Gopal Kaka's sentence. Whether he is being welcoming or his words hold a hint of menace is up to you. Whether his reference is solely to the guest house or to a the more abstract phase - so, a new home in her life - is also your decision. I have not quite made mine either.

Thanks for updating and the PM, Z! And if my comment here seems convoluted, just ignore! 😆

Originally posted by: palindrome

Like every other reader on this thread,I was shocked,depressed, sad, with the "title" at once but then you "very precious note" gave the much needed relief..!!!Now coming to the chapter,

Honestly I don't know what to say as I am literally out of words..!!!..

May be Its me only first time noticing it,but the "details" you have put in this chapter awwed me..I am sure you have been to Darjeeling very lately and your "words" took me too there..!!! I simply could feel the place

.."Bratty" was the only one who used to rule my heart with the "vivid descriptions" of the "places",till now. But from today you are the other resident in that area of my heart,,!!!

and i guess,till gehraiyan would approach its finish,I would have to ask for another "Heart" to God as one "heart" won't be sufficient to accommodate the "pure bliss" I feel when I read your works..!!!!

Thank you, Palin. Really, I am awed and humbled by the compliments. I had to read this comment twice because I could not believe what I was reading. I then sat there grinning for a full five minutes. The human ego likes its boosts 😆 I have never been to Darjeeling so to hear you say these things is the highest compliment. Wait, second highest - to be compared to our darling Brat is just something else. So thank you :)

Each and every chapter of Gehraiyan is read thrice by me..First time,i read it to know the "story"...Second time I read it to learn,"how one should write"..Third time,I have to read it to bring the "affect of your writing on me" into words so I could write something here for the comment...!!!

Thank you so much for giving me this story,zarin!!!🤗

And thank you for making it what it is!

At last..

As the man at the service station said

"It wants to tell us a new story this year."

I am ready for it...😊

You're right, I think we're all ready for a change :)

ps-Mariam has already done wonderful analysis of the entire chapter..Her comment is as beautiful and powerful as the chapter itself...😊 She is rightly and aptly entitled as "Queen of comments"...😃

Agreed! I don't know how she does it! But you and everyone else on this thread are no different!

Originally posted by: had2bu

Lost in the Gehraiyan on the vadiyan of Darjeeling...

This plays like a movie in my vision... beautiful ... wish we all had a place to escape like this when we cannot stay in the other place anymore...

Your chapters seep into my eyeballs and refuse to leave...

Thanks for updating...

Originally posted by: kaamchorni

Of characters, too, Mariam?

Originally posted by: kaamchorni

Just curious, did anybody check out page 1?

I had a question for you all. I was thinking of adding a few pictures, some of which may be of characters. Would you like them under a link so that you won't have to see them unless you want to or are you quite happy to have me put the photos up as is? I ask because like me, you may not imagine faces or may have your own visuals already. Of course, you do not need to use any of the photos for your imagination but since you can't un-see things, I thought I'd ask...