The Foreign Self: Part XIV to XVI-B - Page 12

Originally posted by: MusicIsDivine!

Hi Armana,
Your writing shows what kind of an individual you are - a very sensitive, cultured, intelligent, well-informed person with a deep sense of spirituality (which has nothing to do with religion). I am so honored to know you through your writings. I haven't read your latest update yet (I just read your note on pg.5) but am eagerly looking forward to reading it.
A big hug to you.

Originally posted by: minnie25

Hi Armana,
This is a wonderful story. I have enjoyed every bit of it so far.
Do continue with this amazing story. I want to know what happens next... Eagerly waiting for an update.
Minnie.

Originally posted by: sxcdevil

armana..i am sure lots of people have already told u this but u seriously are a fantabulous writer! the way u potray jai and banis emotions i so realistic...and the way u have shown bani and jais relationship is very relaistic because nowadays thats how most couples live and here they get to see each others imperfections and work their way round it and if thats what two consesting adults want then thats fine. .......
as for ur update that was amazing 👏 👏 👏 ...looks like jai is unconciously relasing that maybe there is more to this relationship than he thinks! pls cont soon!

Originally posted by: freak2

hi armana

fantastic part as usual 👏 👏 👏
really liked the comfort level btw the two

the descriptive visualisation of "jannat" reminded me the "jannat of srk" vry vry complete and visual

so jai linked both his "bunny" and "bani" to his mother
bunny when he was consolin her
and bani when she emerged from PujaGhar

now he hav bunny->mommy and bani->mommy

so he can vry easily derived bani<->bunny

gotcha ! jai wanted bani to "mrry me or else "
i would say jai first sort out urs feelin than think abt bani 😳 😳 she is much mature than u

Thanks freak2,
glad you like tfs.
As for SRK, i looked it up, his house is named "Mannat" not 'Jannat.'

Originally posted by: pinkumamun

Hmmmmmmm

Looks like Jai is head over heels in love with Bani -- he's behaving real husband like -- you know kissing her good bye and all that ........even though he is yet to realize that he wants to marry her....right?

Originally posted by: Cordelia

Ok, looks like i missed the boat on the discussion, but will not resurrect it - I'm too scared of Sangs' belan!! 😉 😆

Armana, sorry I have been so lack-a-daisical with my comments!! What can I say, you know my majbooriya!! 😉

Great parts dear, just in case I haven't said it before I am head over heels in love with your JW!!! 😳 The mandir scene was a nice touch, well done, esp. the handing out of the prasad and what it means to "the boys"! 😉 👏

Ab Pia yaha bhi aagayi?!! 😡 Kya yaar?!! 😛 😆

Hopefully you will be updating soon - and in case I miss a link, can you PM me when you start a new one?! 😕

Thanks huni! xxxxxxx

Originally posted by: pooja1_76

Hi Armana,
do you know that the all 14 parts are 117 pages in total.
That one hell Elegant writing.

please continue soon

pooja

Originally posted by: mahimn

Hey Armana, nice part and here is what your JB are for me,

Like a ghost dont need a key,Your best friend I have come to be,Please don't think of getting up for me,You don't even need to speak,When I've been here for just one day,You'll already miss me if I go away,So close the blinds and shut the door,You won't need other friends anymore,I arrived when you were weak,I'll make you weaker, like a child,Now all your love you give to me,When your heart is all I need,Oh how quiet, quiet the world can be,When it's just you and little me
Everything is clear and everything is new,So you won't be leaving will you,

The feelings that Nachiket and Ranveer are going through are the ones that I shamelessly enjoyed as a child being all inquisitive about my cousins attention to their newly wedded spouses(three of them and all more than decade old to me). I loved poking and irritating the hell out of them but I was only a child then and now feel terribly embarrassed by those memories.

They talked about Pia comfortably like old friends, are you indicating towards Pushky and BAni, if yes then I did not sensed that . I sensed tension and discomfort on sudden their meeting out of the blues at their airport and Pushky's surprise at the knowledge that PP are both working for someone who is really close to their boss. If you werec talking about Rano and B then why like old friends. Did they lost being in touch somewhere?

Pls. explain

Deat Mahim,
sweetie, you don't need a clarification. I am instead explaining what does indeed need to be clarified instead. It took me while to understand exactly where the confusion originated. But I did finally track it down and I've given a very detailed explanation. Please don't take it amiss. But you did ask me to explain and not give you the answer.

"Soon their comfortable gossip session came to dealing with unpleasant encounters. Rano was as surprised as Bani had been to discover that Pia and Pushkar both worked for Jai. They both talked about pia with the ease and familiarity of very old friends." This is the sentence where the confusion arises.

So let me take it apart:

'They' is a pronoun. It refers to a noun, stands in place for a noun. Since the sentence begins with a pronoun, where you should ask is the noun it refers to? Automatically, you have to go back to the preceding sentence and locate the nouns: there are five in all- Rano and Bani, Pia and Pushkar and Jai.

All of them are Proper Nouns, which are nouns that are the names of a particular person or place.

"they" are talking. By a process of elimination:

Jai is alone, he is not a part of a pair, he can't be doing the talking to anyone.
Pia and Pushakr are not ones doing the talking if Pia is the one being talked about.

That leaves you with Rano and Bani.

So, the conversation is between Rano and Bani, and they are the "both" talking "about pia with the ease and familiarity of old friends."

To return to the basic structure of a sentence: a sentence consists of two parts at the least: a Subject and a Predicate. In a sentence we:

1. name a person or thing : this is the Subject

2. say something about that person or thing : this is the Predicate.

Now go back to the sentence and look at it this way:

"They both talked about pia with the ease and familiarity of very old friends." For a moment, look at it as: "They both talked with the ease and familiarity of old friends."

Subject: "They both" – Bani and Rano

Predicate: what they were doing that is: 'talked with the ease and familiarity of old friends."

Now you asked: "If you werec talking about Rano and B then why like old friends. Did they lost being in touch somewhere?"

Familiarity of old friends: two people who have been friends for a long time are very familiar with each other.

Familiarity: noun. The state of knowing somebody/something well; the state of recognizing somebody/something. [Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary]

A phrase is group of words that on its own only makes partial sense: "about Pia" is a phrase that does not function as a sentence. The phrase, when added to a sentence, does not disturb the function of the Subject and the Predicate. It gives you additional information.

So here, it tells you WHAT "they both" – Rano and Bani- were talking about "with the ease and familiarity of old friends."

Ok, that was a long, detailed explanation. Hope this what you asked for when you asked me toi explain.

Take care,

Love

Armana

Originally posted by: armana

I completely agree with you Armana........go ahead with this POV

...er....thank you K. I did not realise that i needed your permission for 'going ahead' with MY POV!😕

Armana

You need my permission!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just tell me that it's a joke of the year😳..........................................................

K