The riddle of death... (end) - Page 86

Originally posted by: Shinning_Stuti

It seems everyone has forgotten this one. 😭 Rose Di, Selvi Di, lashy Di and many many others did not comment on the last and most important chapter. 😔

I am waiting for your review too. 😆

Yes... End!!💔

Originally posted by: jasmine87

The story was superb with an unexpected killer at the end.

Thanks for the pm.

Continue soon with the new detective story...

Originally posted by: lashy

Have NOT FORGOTTEN it at all...

>> R e I know. 😆 Still I keep on reminding all by all these emotional atyachaars 😛 🤣

You know, Stuti... this story pops up in my mind at the very oddest junctures.. like when I'm walking.. and chance upon something that I've seen here...

>>☺️

This is also the first story that I've followed which the author has so so so responsibly completed... for which, I'm eternally grateful👏

>>☺️

It's a story where the author has not deviated from what she promised to serve us...👏 and for that she needs a standing ovation!

>> OFFF!!!!!!!☺️☺️

I am leaving for a wedding tomorrow evening and I very much had plans of reading this and drop my reply before leaving...

>> O acchaaa! Enjoy very much Di!🤗

Really? 😃 Waiting!! ⭐️

Please do not think I say this only because of your note... it was always there 'Stuti's last chapter... have to read it...' my only problem is that I do not like doing half-baked reading/comments... and there has always been something on my mind the past week or so...

When I read I sit and go through every line and give it my full! Which is why I'm a slow reader..

but I will read it da.. and not because you asked, but because I wanted to (have always wanted to) 🤗

>>> Awww Diii! You're so sweet!😳 Never mind, take your time and enjoy the full while reading! 🤗 No hurry and don't take my note much seriously 🤣 I will be waiting for you 😳

I too have not commented in your updates for a long time. 😔 I read them and enjoyed a lot... but did not get time to comment. I will write soonest possible whenever I will get time. 😳

Originally posted by: Shinning_Stuti

Originally posted by: Shinning_Stuti

It seems everyone has forgotten this one. 😭 Rose Di, Selvi Di, lashy Di and many many others did not comment on the last and most important chapter. 😔

I am waiting for your review too. 😆

Yes... End!!💔

Originally posted by: Shinning_Stuti

It seems everyone has forgotten this one. 😭 Rose Di, Selvi Di, lashy Di and many many others did not comment on the last and most important chapter. 😔

I am waiting for your review too. 😆

Yes... End!!💔

Chapter 17

"You had clear idea about who is the killer from first, right Maan? That's why you tried your best to cover her as much possible.

So instead of Meenakshi protecting Maan like some had guessed... it was the other way around...😊

"You showed me this copy as your alibi of solving test-papers at the night of the murder right? But you only completed 3 and a half problem in that whole night, the rest of the answers are written at the next day...

Isi liye bade kehte hain time pe homework kiyaa karo... ab dekho kyaa hua!😒

"I can prove nothing unless I send the ink and copy in lab or to any graphology expert to test.

Stuti didi has done some hi-fi research! Par graphology kyaa forensic anthropology kyaa... nothing stands in front of the dimaag-ology of our hunk Jalal!😎

"Ok, assume that I was watching adult videos in my phone instead of studying.

Jijaji se kaise baatein kar rahe ho!😲

"Picture of my mother. My uncle Sujamal kaka's name was written on the first page... Then while reading that I could not... I could not control myself. He forced himself to control his voice and the tears. "I always loathed my father... but I never knew he was so dirty!"

Maan's voice broke as he covered his face with his palms. Jalal came forward and patted his shoulders with brotherly affection.

Awww😭

"Papa was sleeping on his chair and none was there in room... I was very much sure that he was not stabbed... Just then Nirmala Chachi screamed and everyone got down... Then after a while Maa went upstairs. Then the shout and scream, the murder...

I am a little confused now... when he first checked on his dad... he'd already been murdered by the sleeping pills, right? Then came the knife angle...🤔

Never mind... I'll find out when I read the rest!😊

"My doubt on you became firm after this.

Mine too!🤔

"What you would have done if you were in my place?

Jalal stared at the boy's red, tearful and agonized face for some moments. Then he sighed. "I don't know! He confessed.

Very poignant moment!

"Yes, you don't know! You can never know. From childhood I wanted my mother to protest. For once. And she did it today. And I will support her. No matter what happens, I will support her!

😭

Maan looked at him with question in eyes. Jalal continued. "Rishav Sindhu, your sister's lover- had to struggle all his life without the support of his father. Your sister Sukanya never knew how her father was... Their deaths never got justice. Just like your responsibility is to save your mother; it is their responsibility to give justice to their father. They had the right to claim that justice. And only you can help them in this path of justice.

Beautiful words... 😳

"That diary Maan.

The hero of the story is still alive!😲

Jalal tum kyaa shaanaa nikle yaar!😎

"I stapled all the loose-sheets of the diary with each of the sets of my class-notes. I was sure that none will read these formulas of Physics till the end in order to get a page of an old diary from it.

If I was the ACP, he would've surely outwitted me, for he was right about this!😕

"I don't need these. Let Sujamal Singh and Meenakshi Aunty's past live in their heart only. You can destroy these pages or can keep these for your mother if you want. These papers in my hand are enough to fetch justice for Paresh Sindhu and Sujamal Singh.

Big Brains. Big Heart. Big muscles.😭

"None is punished to be hanged for killing a vulture!

Of course...👏

Surprisingly none of the family had a bit of detested feeling on Meenakshi as a murderer. Rather all were concerned about how to prove her innocent and to bring her back.

This is SO encouraging!

Jalal was looking extremely pale and tired, which is generally a rare scene.

Oh you poor thing!😭

"I will convince her telling that Maa will go to Mumbai with me. I hope she will believe it! She sighed. All the others sighed with her.

The same room, the same furniture, the same environment. Still Jalal felt some drastic change has taken place just now. The purity and happiness that used to cover the air of the room has been replaced forever with a dark cloud of gloom and agony. The room was empty. Only on the huge bed the old woman was lying alone... A strange aura of pain and gloominess was surrounding her. Who will say that she is the same woman who had wholeheartedly welcomed Jalal in the house in the first day of their meeting?

This stark contrast has been described very very well, Stuti! Beautiful👏

"Umm? Dadi asked, without opening her eyes. Suddenly Jalal felt as if she does not even have that strength left.

Dadi opened her heavy eyelids. Her pace face glowed in a little brightness seeing Jalal.

"How can I forget you, Dadi! Jalal told.

Rulaaoge kyaa, readers ko?😭 Of the entire update, there were two parts that I REALLY REALLY loved.. one was the Jalal Jodha finale at the terrace... and this one..

It was a work par excellence - Jalal's meeting with daadi... more for its emotional content and the subtly sad way in which the truth is brought out! 👏

The old Dadi, the energetic charming Dadi has lost in the wheel of time and situation... The woman lying in front is nothing but her shadow... or her lifeless body...

😭

"Don't spoil Jalal with so much of love, Dadi. Because someone else has come to compete with Jalal.

Dhat! Jodha... how can anyone compete with Jalal😡? That too, a guy who left his lover without any information...

"Sinemet. You did not take this pill at the night of the murder, right?

Oh my God Stuti... I was right about THIS too! Do you remember? That I said it was daadi who poisoned him!!!😲

And you laughed at me!😡

Dadi was still gazing at him with the same smile.

"Maybe pills were finished! Dadi said with the same smile. As if she was joking with Jalal.

I somehow liked her attitude here a lot. Defeatist but with a smile. Fate has been so cruel with her that she had one son murdered by another and she murdered the other son...

Btw, I've highlighted some beautiful gems from your crown of a chapter!👏

Her heavy sigh from the deep of her heart suddenly suffocated the room again.

In my long journey of this vain, worthless woman-life, Sujamal was the one and only element for whom I was proud!

"I am tired! I want rest... I will sleep now Jalal. I will sleep.

👏

It was 12 o' clock of the night... the last night of the year perhaps... But the darkness had no clue of it. The calm village was sleeping under the soft warmth of the dark sky. The chilling breeze was only soothing the air... Strangely, day goes on, years after year come and go, but the air of change does not enter in the village... It keeps on sleeping in the darkness. Storm comes, storm goes, the calm life shatters for a while and it wakes up to find where is it... but again it forgets, becomes calm and keeps on going on in this static darkness... Standing at an edge of the roof clasping each other tightly to bear the chill of the nightly wind, Jalal and Jodha was trying to penetrate the riddle of that dark night only. How the life goes on in this little village in the lap of the mountains, how people keeps on living without losing hopes and faces all the adversities so casually, was perhaps unable to be understood by their polished complex thought-process.

Beautiful description Stuti take a bow! This paragraph could not have been an easy one to pen!👏

I escaped and arranged my life like a selfish and never looked back. She started sobbing.

"Can you tell me how the things took place one-by-one? I am losing the serial.

Apaaa... thank you Jalal... for people with badaami memory like me, it helps!

"How strange, isn't it? Jalal murmured. "Two very common women, caring, loving, devoted to their family, full of motherhood, can even kill a man out of vehemence! In which state of mind, in which extent of rage a human crosses his limit of endurance and can decide to end a life?

THIS was exactly what I was thinking!😕

"May I ask you one thing? Jodha asked.

"You're taking permission to ask me something? Jalal tried to smile.

Something that brought an instant chuckle to my face!😆

"I know you from a long time. You do not compromise with anything when it comes to your duty as a policeman... Then why you spared Dadi?

Jalal smiled.

Stop smiling so much and making the rest of us weak-kneed!😡

"Maybe I try to be a hardcore officer Jodha... but I have no guts to put handcuff to an old woman waiting for her last call in her deathbed in order to get justice from the ultimate after facing all punishments in her life...

😭

"And since Maa actually had stabbed a dead body, the charge of homicide will not be applicable on her... Jodha smiled a bit sadly. The tone of her voice was wet...

"I know the case will be nothing for you. Jalal smiled. "Don't worry Jodha.

No... there is still intent... she will be charged with intent... which will amount to attempted murder or at least, desecration of a deceased body - both of which carry jail terms.

For example, the mastermind in a plot is charged, though they never physically kill..

but, obviously it was all done under extreme duress... which they'd be able to prove with eyewitnesses... so the number of years given to Meenakshi will be reduced...

"Can I ever give my mother back the life she lost behind? Can I ever console that old lady whose unstable, paining heart has driven her to kill the person whom she loved as her son? Can I ever make them normal like before?

"You can become the source of light for those hearts where darkness has veiled the light and the happiness. You will do it!

"I know Jalal... Jodha murmured. "I can do anything when you are beside me. And I also know that you will always be there beside me! She came closer and touched his cheek in an uncanny passion. "Thank you Jalal... for coming in my life... she closed her eyes... Jalal leaned in, gently pressed his lips against her lips in a soft, warm, affectionate manner... She eventually clasped his body, he drew her even more closer... and they started floating in the sea of an uncanny emotional passion...

This was a beautiful end, Stuti...

Neither here nor there like how it would've been...

This must've been the toughest chapter to write and you've outdone yourself... the words.. the settings... the length of each conversation without going into too much detail and yet not leaving anything untouched... the analogies... it was all beautiful... as readers, we just skim through the gist of it... but I know as a writer how much time it takes to think of likening the state of daadi and Meenakshi to that of a veiled darkness!!! 👏

Kudos dear... excellent work! Wish you all the success in your future endeavours too!🤗

Originally posted by: selvi1275

Stuti..🤗

You finished the story was itself a shocker...Then with a lot of travel and my health testing me...things are getting dragged...

And there'd be no more ROD update 😭😭😭...Everything is testing yaar...But I'll get to write about it soon...

Originally posted by: roseraja1915

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How can we forget the last chapter, Stuti dear?😊

You have wrapped up the story with another shocker!👏

Will get to the review this weekend, dearie! 🤗