Mannat Har Khushi Paane Ki: Episode Discussion Thread - 24
Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai - 06 Aug 2025 EDT
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Wow Sam! As always, amazing chapter! Also, thank you for taking my advice into consideration for adding the date! I loved the action sequence! I really hope they show something similar in the show. It was sad to hear about her brother and I think Suman is starting to trust Shravan with her emotions more. Can't wait to read more!
Binge-read chapters 4 through 10 without realising it took me a little over an hour to do so! One surely doesn't realise time when one's having fun! I enjoyed it thoroughly. Would like to apologize for not reading the chpts as and when they were updated and to make up for it I made sure to note down my thoughts and amusements at each one. Please bear cuz I feel I'm already bothering you with the following super long post!😆
Chpt 4
Very well written. Loved how you described the storm brewing and the jeopardy of the chase! Brilliant!
Chpt 5
Loved how you portrayed each thinking of the other in positive ways and from their perspective. it really helped us readers see through the situation!
Chapter 6
Wow! Shravan and Suman investing the case together really looked splendid. The case just got more interesting!
Chapter 7
I absolutely adored this chapter! The way Shravan introspected the whole situation without him going cheesy was so well written! I loved how Suman is shown fierce and beautifully strong in your fic yet realistically believable! She can fight, she can get injured, she can have the women's problems yet try to be a brave open soul!
Chapter 8
A short update but love the growing friendship and easiness in Shravan and Suman! Aww he got flowers for her!
Chapter 9
This chapter was dreamy! The beach setting and white sand added to the charm! I love the way you describe things. Your dialogs are crisp and to the point.
Chapter 10
A well balanced chapter! The former being action packed and almost giving me a scare. The latter was light-hearted leaving me really contended. I was laughing at the part of Haldi doodh which made me reminisce the good old days. I hated milk, still do rather and used to dump it into one of my mom's potted plants.
All in all, midway through the story I had forgotten it was all fictional and found myself totally engrossed! You are such a fine writer! Suspense, mystery and light-heartedness all jammed into one!
Felt I had pulled one of my novels from the shelf and began reading a New York Times bestseller! Loved it!
Hoping to be and read in sync with the next updates. Intently waiting👍🏼
P.S I feel I'm giving Alina a tough competition for the essay writer award😆
Binge-read chapters 4 through 10 without realising it took me a little over an hour to do so! One surely doesn't realise time when one's having fun! I enjoyed it thoroughly. Would like to apologize for not reading the chpts as and when they were updated and to make up for it I made sure to note down my thoughts and amusements at each one. Please bare cuz I feel I'm already bothering you with the following super long post!😆
Chpt 4
Very well written. Loved how you described the storm brewing and the jeopardy of the chase! Brilliant!
Chpt 5
Loved how you portrayed each thinking of the other in positive ways and from their perspective. it really helped us readers see through the situation!
Chapter 6
Wow! Shravan and Suman investing the case together really looked splendid. The case just got more interesting!
Chapter 7
I absolutely adored this chapter! The way Shravan introspected the whole situation without him going cheesy was so well written! I loved how Suman is shown fierce and beautifully strong in your fic yet realistically believable! She can fight, she can get injured, she can have the women's problems yet try to be a brave open soul!
Chapter 8
A short update but love the growing friendship and easiness in Shravan and Suman! Aww he got flowers for her!
Chapter 9
This chapter was dreamy! The beach setting and white sand added to the charm! I love the way you describe things. Your dialogs are crisp and to the point.
Chapter 10
A well balanced chapter! The former being action packed and almost giving me a scare. The latter was light-hearted leaving me really contended. I was laughing at the part of Haldi doodh which made me reminisce the good old days. I hated milk, still do rather and used to dump it into one of my mom's potted plants.
All in all, midway through the story I had forgotten it was all fictional and found myself totally engrossed! You are such a fine writer! Suspense, mystery and light-heartedness all jammed into one!
Felt I had pulled one of my novels from the shelf and began reading a New York Times bestseller! Loved it!
Hoping to be and read in sync with the next updates. Intently waiting👍🏼
P.S I feel I'm giving Alina a tough competition for the essay writer award😆
Whoever said patience is a bitter plant but bears sweet fruits was so true. You made my day and week and month as well with your notes and observations. Thank you a gazillion times for this !!! It really means a lot . Had you been in person infront of me I would have gifted you a bowl full of home made rasogollas..straight from my bong kitchen..
Yes the haldi doodh..I guess all of us as kids hate this and I too used to dump it at the roots of our lemon tree and my mom caught me when the tree died...my little one throws similar tantrums and now my mom's words taunt me when she used to say "we will see when u become a Mom".
Chap 11 – Warm embrace
“My brotherwas 12 years older to me and my parents adored and lovable child. Then I came as an accidental pregnancy whom neither of my parents wanted yet I was born. It did not take long for me to figure out that I was the unwanted one in the house as I saw my birthday was never celebrated but all my friends had their birthdays. As I grew, I came to know that my parents had tried to abort me when they came to know my mother was pregnant as it would have been an embarrassment for them in front of family and friends but could not as it would have been fatal for my mother. For the same reason my every birthday, my every achievement although made them proud they were always entangled with a sense of embarrassment as well so my accolades were always discussed in hushed tones. In those days my angel, my support my everything was my brother Satyendra Tiwari or Satya as everyone called him. He would give me the love of both my father and mother. During my birthdays both of us would sneak out and would celebrate my birthday with his friends in their house. When I was in primary school I remember going with Bhaiya to parks while all other kids would go with their parents. Bhaiya would be the lion or the horse while I rode on his back, he would be the Santa during Christmas . Apart from PTM(Parents Teacher meeting),nothing was attended by my parents. All annual functions, all Scouts and Guides congregation and later NCC would be attended by him. Every sport that I won Satya Bhaiya would be there to encourage me, cheer for me. He was the one who wanted me to join either Armed Forces or Police. Even before I was out of school,he was already in the engineering college doing his B.E. in Mechanical. Due to my father’ s work we had shifted to Mumbai and Satya had joined one of the most prestigious colleges in Mumbai and my parents were so proud of him. It was the most difficult phase of my life when Bhaiya was not around, and I was on my own. I used to call him everyday and narrate whole day’s events and he used to patiently listen to all of them giving me advise, suggestions. I used to tell him how my parents thought he would one day go to the US and join one of the most prestigious companies in the world , how they were desperate for him to win the gold medal this year. I will never know whether it was their expectations or wrong company that took him down the unwanted path but that year his grades had suffered and my father went to meet him and was shocked to see him and hear from his friends that he had become a drug addict.
He was draining all the money that my father sent him to pay for his addiction, he had sold everything he had and now was thrown out of the hostel as he had not paid his dues and used that money to buy drugs. We were all horrified with that discovery and it was decided that he would be put in a rehab. He stayed in rehab for some time and then he was back but just 2 months later he was again back to where he was, so he continued shifting in and out of rehabs. He wouldbe found in all God forbidden places in the filth, in the garbage, along stormwater drains, in red light areas and my father would search and bring him back.Neighbours, friends and relatives had started giving us a cold shoulder and asked us to move out of the area so other people are not affected. In order to take care of Bhaiya my parents sent me to a hostel so they could focus on him and his treatment. We moved to a new place where it was difficult for my father to commute but still for my Bhaiya they did that. I continued speaking to him occasionally when he would be in a condition to speak and every time when I asked him why he was doing this he would go silent on me but he always mentioned that he was trying hard to kick the habit but he was just unable to. That summer vacation I had insisted and had come but when I had come , I was shocked. He was no more the hero I adored, he was a ghost of himself, eyes red, dark circles around his eyes, frail. At night when I was asleep, I was woken up guttural cries as he rolled up like a ball trying to control his seizures. I could not imagine how my hero like brother was reduced to such a sham. Early morning when I checked on him he was in deep sleep as the doctor had sedated him. The site before me was gut wrenching, Bhaiyya had cuts and bruises over his body which he had done sometimes to blackmail my parents to give him money and sometimes to control the pain he had. They had mingled with the small red spots of innumerable syringes that he had pierced himself when he had pursued the habit.
He used to have severe seizures in the rehab and my mother could not watch that and decided to get him home against all advices. That was the worst decision they had taken. One morning they discovered that Bhaiyya had run away from home and after searching him throughout the day when they complained to the police station, the police were not serious about him as he was a drug addict. Finally, after seven days they had found his bloated, decomposing body next to a garbage dump. Post-mortem revealed that he had died due to drug overdose and that day I had become an orphan.My mother could not bear the passing away of her son and passed away soon after. My Dad also set out on a mission to save people from clutches of drug addiction. He had become a little delusional, so his social ideas did not work and Ratna Masi advised me to put him up in a care facility as it was difficult for me to take care of him. Thankfully they had finances for me to complete my higher education and I managed by substantiating it through part time jobs or tuitions as my father wanted the money to fund his social experiments. I was determined to join the NCB to give Bhaiyya justice in my own way. It must sound weird to you Shravan but my parents never had a connect with me and my connection to them was only Bhaiyya and with him no more I just have their name, but does that make me a bad daughter and sister”.
Suman let the tears fall , after a long time quired the pitch of her past and the burdenof it had always clamped up her emotions but today with someone who she can rely on she let it all go. She pulled up her knees together and buried her head as soft sobs made her body shiver. Shravan wanted to kick himself in the gut for being judgemental about her. He had been so wrong about her and no number of apologies could mend it and his guilt ride was probably there to stay. He inched a little closer to Suman and put his arms around her gathering her in his embrace. Suman slid quietly into his warm embrace which had nothing but promises of being there always. Shravan shushed her and whispered, “Your Bhaiya will be always be extremely proud of you and that’s all that should matter”. Suman nodded slowly as she slid back on his chest as Shravan held her close as the silver embers of the moonlight peeping through the window drenched the grieving souls. As Suman’s sobs subsided, she realized that she was too close to Shravan for her comfort and slowly stepped away as the woody masculine smell of his skin seemed to have stuck to her. Shravan let her go although he missed the warmth and softness pressed to him a few seconds ago. Suman got up and pulled him up as well tucking him in her bed and making him have his medicines. Suman mentioned to him that she will be next door and sharing the room with her Masi tonight and Shravan felt bad about kicking her out of her own room but Suman covered it up mentioning that she had lot of catch-up to do with her Masi. As she stepped out , Shravan went through the events of the day. It had started as a normal day and their closeness had made him confident about expressing his feelings to Suman but everything had turned upside down. He had known today Suman a lot more and he had fallen a little more for the girl who was vulnerable yet strong. He started questioning whether he was worthy of Suman, she had faced bad days and converted those into her strength while he had always run away or stayed silent when he felt things were wrong. He had to be true to Suman, he had to open all facets of his life like Suman has opened some and then let Suman decide if he was worthy of her. He would change himself and make him worthy of Suman but that was for the future but the past which he cannot change needs to be out in the open. Worthy or not , accepted or not Suman will remain etched in his life for ever. Deliberating on his plans Shravan felt the effect of medicines was making him drowsy and he was soon asleep as a faint smell of lavender lingered on his body.
It was quite late in the morning when Shravan opened his eyes to see the sun already way up in the sky. He looked at the clock and saw he had couple of hours before they started for Bangalore. He felt much better now although there was this nagging pain but the fever was gone. He was not sure if he was hallucinating but he had this blurry vision of someone in pink and blue lying curled up in the chair next to the bed and a soft hand sometimes caressing his forehead. A little while later Ratna Masi knocked at the door and he responded with a “GoodMorning”. She walked in with a glass of water and a cup of tea and a warm smile as she asked how Shravan was feeling. Shravan looked behind her towards the door and sensing his question Ratna Masi said “Suman is sleeping. I am not sure you were aware but she was walking in ever hour to check your temperature but since it would have disturbed my sleep , she decided to sleep in this chair and keep checking on you. In the morning I found her oddly curled up here so I asked her to catch-up on some sleep. You can freshen up and she will wake up in some time so you both can go”. Shravan’s heart warmed up hearing this, and he wanted to see her beautiful face right then. As if hearing his plea he saw Suman come out with her hair tousled wearing her cute tee and pyjama rubbing her eyes to clear off the sleep and Shravan’s heart did a flip-flop with him imagining what it would be to kiss her everyday if she looked so adorable every morning.
Few hours later the team boarded the bus to Bangalore and they had purposely chosen the seats towards the backside of the bus so they could discuss work. Sash mentioned that he had spoken to the police and a case has been registered for the incident that happened last night. Suman would need to share a detailed description of the fugitive, but he will still use his informers to try and gather information about this person. Shravan agreed with Sash that this might be a new agent in this trade who was aiming for some big bucks and he must have trailed on their heels and identified that Suvan was responsible of finding the hideout and instigating the demolition drive and vent out their anger finding them alone. This is a tactic seasoned drug lords will not use as there key to survival is lying low always and these kind of seize does happen and they learn to live with that. Sash mentioned that finding this guy would breakthrough because he seems to be a weak link and he might be useful to get useful info.
After some more discussions they all slid back to their seats to rest a little before they reached Bangalore. Suvan sat together so Shravan decided to ask Suman a question which was uppermost in his mind “Suman your Ratna Masi is very cool. I mean I know some ladies would have thrown a fit if a girl has a guy at home”.Suman smiled and replied “Ratna Masi has been with me since I was a child.She cared for me whenever she was around me. I have spent vacations at their place and now with her only son settled in the US she comes often to my place. She does not judge me , she knows and trusts me.By the way she is used to this.Shash , Saheb have already stayed at my place due to some unfortunate situation that had come up”. Shravan’s face fell when he heard that although he knew Sash and Saheb shared a very beautiful bond with Suman but there was this tinge of jealousy and sadness that he was not the privileged one. Suman noticed that and smiled and said “But..no one, no one slept on my bed” and walked off to stretch her legs as the bus had stopped at a junction to allow travellers to freshen up. Shravan's face beamed and a smile stretched to his eyes at that and he quickly jumped causing his arm to rebel under the impact as he screamed out a little and ran to catch up with his dearest Suman.
Nice chapter, Sam. Suman's background story was really sad...she's been neglected her whole life and then the one person who she loved, suffered and passed away. So this actually explains why she is hesitant to get close or open up. But, I like how Shravan listened to her carefully as she is starting to trust him and open up. Even, Suman is starting to care for him a lot. I like the progression in their relationship in this chapter! Shravan feeling he is not worthy of her adds an interesting layer to their relationship and I can't wait to read how this will affect them. Nice job! 👍🏼
Read chapter 8 just now
it's beautiful
Suman missed being at work and called everyone 😆
but Sash gave her strict warning🤣
Aww
Shravan missed her❤️
SuVan's call conversation was beautifully written, loved the detailing
he cheered her, then them wanting to keep talking more❤️
And the apology was cute+heartfelt
SuVan's hug🤗
Thanks for update 👍🏼
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