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Posted: 4 years ago

There's a saying that what use are the eyes if your mind is blind. Naina is mind blind , luuvvvv blind now more so than she has ever been. Perception can go a long way to check yourself from getting hurt but the two girls crouched on their knees today for me is symbolic of charging themselves for the big battle ahead.Worry not, both these girls have individual and collective battles they have to be prepared for.

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Posted: 4 years ago

Smita & Viveka

“I mean the way she was sitting” Akash cringed, as he rubbed his eyes, he was giving Anubha a ride home from the airport, the girls were “asleep”or so he ordered them to

Viveka would usually jump up and go but Anubha had not returned her calls, Viveka was finishing up her grant proposal checking her watch every few seconds

Naina was video chatting with Inder, she didn’t want to go

The girls had returned late from college and so were asleep

Anubha’s flight was technically Sunday night, it landed at 1AM on Monday morning

“I should have listened to you” Akash said

“No don’t say that”

“No I mean it, you told me to loosen up, I wish I had I wouldn’t have such a hard time dealing with this”

“Arey main yeh sochti aayi poore raaste that “I” should have listened to YOU”

“Nahi… Anu tum theek keh rahi thi, we should not have been so 1980s” he laughed and waved his hand like a teen

“We got married in 1990, its not the stone age Akash”

“Seems like it yaar…. I DON’T feel old… but just look at thevalue system… it has left us galaxies behind”

“they are good kids”

“Who to hai… but Naina is so… kya kahoon… so casual”

“Who to hamesha se hi thin a”

“But parson raat ko I am grilling them, she is looking uppictures on her phone to show me”

“Kaun sa wala tha un photos mein?” Anubha had a lilcuriosity now

“U saw right? on Instagram whatever”

“Hmm.. I was so angry I logged off quick and never went back”

“smart hai ladka… NRI hai… he is all beefy jaise hotey hainaaj kal ke hero.” Akash laughed

“Hahaha”

“They all look the same to me” he was distraught

“Bwahhahah” Anubha laughed uncontrollably

“I sound like my Dad perhaps… he would say things about Shammi Kapoor or Manoj Kumar or Rajendra Nath I would roll my eyes….”

“We grew up on Rekha and Amitabh movies Akash…. Mere liye tho you know”she chuckled

“Jaanta hoon VINOD MEHRA, Shashi Kapoor” Akash was irritated

Anubha laughed in her deep voice

“waise Shashi hamare Papa log ke generation ka hai”

“Damn hot Akash”

“You sound like Naina”

They both laughed to comfort each other

“I missed you Anu” he grumbled

She smiled knowingly

They both were quiet for a while enjoying the 1970s & 1980s music on the playlist, Smita Patil’s Tumhare Bin Jeena Lage ghar mein” fromBhumika played appropriately

“I don’t get a good feeling Akash”

“I don’t either… I just exchanged text messages with Savi,khaana bheja usne do din, aaj bhi bhejegi”

“She will tell your Mom, Jeejee tour par gayin khaana mainebheja”

“Don’t worry they have much spicy stuff to talk about now”

“HOW could Viveka do this”

“Even I am stumped”

“Jaise koi aur hi ho”

“We always expect her to be the sane one, we want her to live up to some ridiculous standard Anubha”

“I get it she is your favorite, Econ padhi hai, she writes for journals, she teaches college, she is a book worm” Anubha was proud

“I mean just look at her…. You see 18 year old wear swim clothes on the street, apne hi ghar par le lo, fashion fashion everyone except her…. Who hamesha saree”

“YOU liked to see me wear jeans and skirts” Anubha gently poked him

“I did … I do… but there is something about her conviction and her ideals, admire karne ko jee karta hai, yaad hai jab main tum SapruHouse, NSD wagerah mein plays dekhe jaate the?

She smiled at him with glittering eyes

“I wanted to dress like Smita and you would say “Don’t do it…saree makes you look older”

“hahahah” Akash laughed

“I think I had that angst buried inside when I was pregnant,bachi ko who hi pasand hai”

“I hope we find someone that truly appreciates that mind”

“Did I just say WE are choosing for Veev?”

Anubha laughed hysterically

“I cannot help it”

“I wanted them to be strong and independent Akash, not gooff to Jaipur after lying to us, on a honeymoon before marriage… even I AM notOK with this physical stuff” Anubha cringed

Their expressions changed

“Are we going to let her go to Kharagpur?” Anubha asked wistfully

“Grant kisi specific university ka hai kya?”

“Umm… not really I think… Econ is your wheelhouse, par shaayad DU or IIT Delhi or wherever can partner with her”

“I want her in Delhi” he smiled

“How are you going to be if they all went off to different cities” Anubha teased

“Viveka ko yahi rehne ko kahoonga” he sighed, and yawned………

Naina wandered out to her balcony and stared into the stormy night sky sadly… in love.. and making affected moves “I miss you” she texted Inder when he had only stepped away to take a call "OMG! Baarish, I really love baarish... Inder... I MISS YOU" "I love the rains"

She cooed like a giddy teenager


“I could come over and you could sneak me into your room” Inder goaded her

Viveka stared out the open balcony door it had just begun to rain, she inhaled hard, “ooh that smell of moist earth” she thought and chuckled, staring at the increasing force as it began to spray everywhere


Mesmerized...

and looked down at her paper again, pulled the pen out of her makeshift joora and started making notes on the side of the page tuning to her fave Hindi songs.

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Posted: 4 years ago

Its a Smita Patil song from her movie Bhumika

It wont let me add a link sadly😡



One of my ALL TIME favorites❤️

Preeti Sagar AND Smita

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Posted: 4 years ago

Just loved your story!!. Fantastic.

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Posted: 4 years ago

The older generations can not come to terms with the workings of the younger generations. The gap is hard to bridge.

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Posted: 4 years ago

Lovestruck Inder and Naina - absolutely not realizing the collateral damage to sister who came

to her rescue, parents who are struggling to find the balance between the new right and old right ways in doing things.


Beautifully penned Nisha 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Posted: 4 years ago

The cowering & the corrupt

Anubha hugged her girls but was not enthusiastic

“I am sorry Ma” Viveka mumbled pushing her glasses upnervously

“baarish ho rahi hai, room ka darwaza khulla chhodkar padhrahi ho?” Anubha enquired grimly

“Just abhi”

“Who kahan hai?” Anubha asked setting her laptop bag on thecoffee table

“Music sun rahi hai shaayad” Viveka lied again, praying

Anubha walked over purposefully

“Kya chal raha hai?”

“Rakhti hoon” Naina whispered and hung up and jumped off thebed

Pulling her air pods out of her ear

“Just music ma” she mumbled offering up an ipod

“Stop it” Anubha warned

Akash appeared in the doorway, “Do baj gaye ab chalo” “Go take a shower and eat” “Sotey hain yaar” he urged

“Nahi ruken ek second” Anubha sat down on the couch in Naina’s room

Viveka was heating dinner/ midnight snack?

“You stayed with him the whole 3 days? And nights?” Anubha was direct

“Hmm.. yes Ma” Naina nodded

“ I don’t enforce any rules, yet you lie to me and took off”

“Umm.. I just wanted to return by night”

“Jhooth nahi Naina” Anubha warned

“Veev kahan hai?” she asked Akash

Viveka ran inside

“Hmm Ma?”

“Yeh bimaar hai karke tum bhaagi, NH8 is horrible what ifsomeone had struck your car?” Anubha challenged

“I thot about that” she nodded

“Phir bhi twins ko akela chhodkar iske peechhe bhaagi ho?”

“Jee Ma”

“WHAT did u eat?”

“Umm.. he made kamal kakri”

“Khaana banata hai who?”

“No the Rajasthani help”

“Hmm”

“This is so bad… I don’t know what I am going to say to Bua andFa” Anubha looked distressed

“Chhodo yaar abhi just sleep off” Akash urged

“Its bad enough your mother thinks I chose my career over CHAAR BETIYAN” Anubha was hurt

“Ma ka kya hai, I don’t care she can think what she wants”Akash was firm

“Dada Dadi SAB taq pahunch gayi hogi ab taq baat”

“I am SO sorry Ma”

Naina sat by her feet and prayed on her mother’s knees

“Ma please I AM SO SORRY”

Akash ek second” she mumbled

He sighed and shut the door and left the room to change and eat

“You spent the night with him?”

Naina nodded reluctantly

Anubha cringed

“I am so sorry Ma… we are in love… Ma… please aap mujhe believe kyon nahi kar rahe?”

“What if u get pregnant Naina?” Anubha whispered

“No… I cant Ma… I cant… I went on my 5th day”

Anubha cringed that her daughter had shared such intimate detail with a man she had met two weeks ago

“Ma he wants me to meet his Mom”

“Kyon?” Anubha was bitter

“You know” Naina blushed

“Tum jaanti ho yeh sab?”

Viveka was reviewing her paper

“Paper rakho Veev…. Tumhare padhai se tang aa chuki hoon main”

“I am sorry” “ma”

“Do u know she was going to go spend the night?”

“Hmm” Viveka hung her head

“Tumhara plan tha?”

“No… no Ma” Viveka was shocked

“Ma… Veev ko MAINE kaha”

“You’ve spent three nights with a man you never know u will see again or not” Anubha got up cringing

“Ma I JUST spoke to him” Naina showed her her call log, and began to cry

“ABHI kya baat kar rahi ho? Raat ke sawa 2 baje?”

“Umm.. just…”

Naina Papa and I worry about your safety, you don’t even know this man…. I am not saying becoz he is an NRI. I am saying… you know… mencan be creeps… what if he recorded you? What if he blackmails you” Anubha was blunt

“MAAA” Naina was horrified

“Tumhe pata kuch nahi hai Naina… you dragged her over there…Veev ki safety ka socha?”

“Nothing happened

“Abhi to teen din huen hain” Anubha left the room

Viveka picked up her sheaf of papers and pulled her pen out ofher joora and started notating

“Veev you think he is a creep?”

“I don’t even know the guy Naina” Viveka was upset

“He is not like that… how can Bua be friends with someone like that?”

“They are knew in town or something… Fa is sourcing sapphires from Gujju businessman based in Mozambique, apparently he knows Inder’s Dad apparently stays in this Gujju businessman’s house in Maputo

“How do you know all this?” Naina was ever confused as always

“Papa told me last night (after Akash spoke with Kamal his BIL the men being more unemotional)” “Papa only remembered vaguely, he hadn’t met Inder that night,…”

“So FA KNOWS THEM” PHEW" Naina was a one trick pony

“THAT’S what you got out of it?”

“I LOVE Inder”

“DON’T say it in front of Ma… PLEEZ Naina not for a couple weeks” Viveka coached

“He cant even come home?”

“NO” Viveka shook her head

“Are you sure it was your 5th day?”

“Pretty sure” Naina said vaguely causing Viveka’s stomach muscles to clench

“So jao ab, kha chuki tum dono?” Anubha peeked showered,fresh, wearing her nightie

“jee Ma” “Main serve karoon?” Naina asked with unusual courtesy

“Nahi.. so jao”

Viveka got up

“Aur tum…”

“Jee Ma… you will NEVER lie to Papa and me again. If you want to continuepursuing Research”

“Got it” Viveka nodded

“You think it’s the guy that we met at the party?” Anubha served herself a roti and nibbled

“Nahi… who koi aur hain shaayad… related”

“Pata nahi kaun log hain Akash”

“Aaj ka Economics Times dekho” He got up from the table and flipped to Page 8, on the upper left box, there was a hand shake photo of Satyen Parashar with Commerce Minister for the bi lateral trade agreement for under sea fiber optic cable in partnership with Singapore… the envoy was also in the picture

“He was a little OK nahi?” Anubha tried to think

“Who knows yaar”

“Naina Viveka ki tarah strong, confident kyon nahi hai Akash?”

“You cant say that”

“Umm.. look at her”

“Did u tell her she can use the grant to study we wont hassle her any more about shaadi?”

“Nahi” Anubha said firmly

“USKI kya galti hai Anu?”

“She is the co conspirator”

Savita and Akash and Anubha spent hours the next morning chatting about everything. Savita appeared like she was agreeing with Anubha when she said these days young people want freedom

“Jeejee… ache log hain, Kamal keh rahe hain unke jo supplierhain, Maputo mein Choksi jee unki jaanpehchan hai 30 saalon se”

“Hmm”

“Jeejee main aapki side hoon” Savita groveled

“Aapko main kya keh rahi hoon, kuch bhi nahi… bus ladkiyon par aa raha hai gussa mujhe” Anubha relaxed a bit

“Jeejee aa jao shaam ko” Savi begged

In order to buy her trust Anubha agreed tho she was greatly jet lagged, Naina wanted to go see Inder Viveka refused to lie for her, Anubhastalked the older girls, to ensure they could not escape

“I would be sleeping off my jet lag… I am going to curry favors so she does not gossip. You two should show up and offer your support tome” Anubha was livid

“I have to finish my paper Ma” “Main abhi aayi hoon JNU se,aaj subah 3 candidates ko interview kiya for Records assistant Ma” Vivekabegged

“Kya kahoon main? If this thing had not happened you could have written it”

“I am sorry Ma”

“… ready ho, and lets go”

“I am ready I will just go in my saree” Viveka mumbled,cowering

Bua was a relentless socializer, she had hosted a business lunch at home for some of Fa’s friends…Mathurs were family so they entered the house and dispersed around.

Viveka hung with her Dad in the library, as they looked the new books that were piled in a corner ready to be displayed… Harsha and Piyushdid not have a reading habit. Most things in elite homes was for show only so was this library

Men from the luncheon were brought in to be introduced toAkash

He was fine with the biological relationship, he did not crave to be seen or heard

He knew he was a small fry

“Bhaisaab hamare walking banking encyclopedia hain” Kamal was very gracious

The men began chatting

Viveka would later be told one of the men Mr Das was theSecretary of some Minister

Satyen and Raanav also came to the room, Satyen gladly beganchatting with Akash and the other men

Viveka was busy having an animated argument with Mr Das on rural unemployment program.

Raanav took in her stunning appearance in lemon yellow Chanderi cotton with a mehandi color border, and the large nose stud, and bindi, and he noticed a pen in her joora

If he was frozen in his track he would not acknowledge it of course

He overheard the conversation she was having with Mr Das

Championing the cause of the poor

“The wealthy are tired of seeing their hard earned money being extracted as more and more taxes on mindless government programs!” he said haughtily

She looked at him coolly with no sign of recognition and said “Taxes are the price of civil society. The game is so fully rigged against the bottom 60% there is no hope of ever achieving equality. Shifting and hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while the bottom 60% people are unable to achieve the basic standard of living is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, corrupt”

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Posted: 4 years ago

Naina is taking huge risks. She could easily end up pregnant. Counting days is the only thing she is relying on.

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Posted: 4 years ago

Viveka will always champion the cause of the poor. Lets see if the hero can counter her arguments.

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Posted: 4 years ago

The Mathur couple is adorable.... I wonder if their's is a love marriage? 😃

Their camaraderie... absolutely smitten with each other, supporting each other to find their footing with parenting, struggling to let go of their daughters and...

The fact that Dadi doesn't seem too fond of Anubha! 😆

She'll tell your mom..

Don't worry, they have much spicy stuff to talk about now

No matter what your age, nobody gets over the terror of a desi MiL 🤣


Inki Bua hain ke BBC (Bua Broadcasting Corporation).... bechare! They're scared stiff of her gossip mongering! 😆


Naina is a goner! I just hope Inder is as involved here as her..

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