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Posted: 4 years ago

For Naina I would like to say Pen is mightier than a Sword as in Dining table is mightier than a couch?!🤣


Seriously jokes apart, you gotta feel a wee bit for Naina here. Prejudice at all levels. Ha Ha Ha.


Inder dhamija has become the 'beefy' white elephant in the room now

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Posted: 4 years ago

Viveka is more balanced than Abhishek. She doesn't mind the rich being rich as long as they do their part for the people. She just wants fairness. Abhishek actually resents the rich.

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Posted: 4 years ago

Naina is upset how charmed her parents are when Viveka brings home a guy. Inder does not get to come over and she is told to lay off. She sees it as partiality. The parents see her relationship going nowhere, so they are not in support of it. She can not see their viewpoint.

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Posted: 4 years ago

Kalpana

ALL i will say is *cough* *cough* Ahem! Ahem!

Umm.. yeah...😳

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Posted: 4 years ago

Wow!! This is soooo engaging.. I missed them so much 😊


Read so many episodes at once and loved the story ❤️


I have a lot to say but I'll come back again for that..

For now, I absolutely loved Viveka's last remark! Made me want to cheer for her with pompoms and all 😆👏

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Posted: 4 years ago

Originally posted by: Nisha0604

Kalpana

ALL i will say is *cough* *cough* Ahem! Ahem!

Umm.. yeah...😳


I KNEW IT!!!!! Something big is up your sleeve! This morning I felt that in every pore ! Bring it on😛

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Spiders

“Can I come in?” he asked politely

She pulled the pencil off her messy bun and retied itdistractedly “Oh yes” she looked toward the inside

“There is no one at home” she spoke into the empty hallway

“Oh” “Umm” he refused to leave

“Why don’t you sit down?”

She removed her leather tote and the mountains of papersand a dupatta and a scarf out of the way from the visitor sofa

Her glasses fell on the papers, she wore it again… with a “uff”he would hear that for the first time

A soft.. but packed with frustration “ufff”

She retied her bun and went inside

“Kaun hai betu?” Bua murmured

“Just work friend I guess”

“kiska?”

“Matlab… Fa ke friend hain shaayad”

“Naam kya hai?” she sat up making a face

“Doctor ko bulaoon bua?”

“No beta… main theek hoon… mujhe kal raat ko who besan ki gatewaali karhi nahi khaani chahiye thi”

“Yeh baat aap mujhe 5 baar keh chuki hain”

Her phone rang in the living room

“Ek second Bua… kya karoon us aadmi ka”

She began to laugh weakly though cheerfully

“Kya hua?” Viveka demanded

“Tumhare sawaal se mujhe Hindi pikchar ki yaad aa gayi…tumhe yaad nahi hoga ek Prem Chopra hai”

Viveka looked confused… as always

“Piyush Harsha kab aayenge?”

“Pata nahi” Bua got up to go throw up

Viveka sprinted to the visitor room

She turned on the fan and increased the AC power

“There is no one home” she said

“You told me that you didn’t have to check”

“So yeah…” she sat down

And picked up her laptop

It had a picture of a tiny gold Ganpati

He did notice it the day she visited his house

But he had to say something today “That seems very rational!”he smirked waving towards it (making the popular joke about “Economics is allabout making rational decisions)

“Economists aren’t sworn to a life of rational decisions”

“Oh?” “No?” he mocked gently

He found arguing with her enchanting

“There is a model by Nobel Laureate Richard Thaler about BehavioralEconomics, you know the bitten by a spider thing” she waved her hand

“Oh? Whats that?”

He had taken many Econ classes he knew…

“Suppose you are bitten by a spider the chance of death is1 in 100k?” she paused

“Oh? And then?”

“How much would you pay to receive the antidote of spidervenom?”

“Nothing” he said looking at her deeply

“Lets say there is a study and you get recruited where theywill inject spider venom, you have to sign a consent form, with a 1 in 100kchance of dying, how much would you want the researchers to pay you toparticipate?” she smiled joyously proving her point

“Ah”

“Exactly!” she gushed breathlessly

She was way out of his league he realized…😳

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Posted: 4 years ago

We can get one more pls nisha

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Posted: 4 years ago

OK fine

I have no calls tonight, so why not

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There will be others!

He just sat quietly as she worked, 20 minutes into it, shelooked up to realize he was there, she crinkled her eyes to make sense of it

“Uff” she mumbled realizing she was supposed to ask Bua

“Are you here to see Bua? She is sick”

“No actually” he leaned back and crossed one leg overanother

“Oh Harsha Piyush?”

“Umm No”

“OK Let me check on Bua” she went back out

And returned 15 minutes later with a mug of chai forherself and him

“I made chai” she said politely

He didn’t drink much chai, she set it in front of him

“It’s the day off for the help”

“OK”

“Bua said Harsha is at the GK store, Piyush is at the Pitampura store, Fa is inBelgium”

“I know” he said

“Oh so you knew they were not at home?”

“Yeah Piyush is on his way”

“OK fine… sorry” she shrugged and rubbed her foreheaddistractedly

As if she had better things to do than banter with him

She went back to working… her laptop played someundetectable instrumental music

She frequently looked out the window he noticed

“how is your sister?” he goaded

“She is great” “she is at work” she nodded

“Is she?” he mocked

“Unless you know better and she is with Inder” she smiledaccepting Naina’s stupidity

“Umm.. I don’t know… she was.. there I am going to say theday before”

“OK” she nodded

She just kept working, unaffected by him

“Did she say Inder is serious?”

“I haven’t asked”

“You don’t have any curiosity?”

“Not as much as you” she smiled and then pulled out her TI 80 calculator and punched in something

“Inder is leaving BTW”

“Great… safe travels” she nodded

“U should tell your sister”

“I am sure she knows” she smiled

“Good” he nodded “there will be others I am sure” he couldn’tstop himself from taking the dig, that middle class vultures manage to findsome prey sooner or later

Bua texted since the room was far far away

She got up and left

Bua told her Piyush was on his way and he had texted shetold him “the man already knew”

“Piyush ko kehna…”

Bua gave her a bunch of instructions as she tied a dupattaon her forehead

“U should go to the Doc Bua”

“Jeejee aa rahin hain chali jaaoongi”

“Main khichri bana doon?”

“Naa beta… tu padh le” she grabbed her chin fondly andsmiled

“Usne to chun liya apne liye, tub hi chun leti”

Viveka realized Bua was talking about Naina

She cringed

This is exactly what her mother feared

“Friend hai Bua”

“haan haan jo bhi hai”

“Mujhe apni applications prep karni hai Bua”

“Kyon ja rahi hai Kharagpur Bhayya ka dil tootega… baaqisab se pyaar hai par tujhse to” Savita beamed

“Highly selective hai bua, program”

“Jo bhi hoo… mere palle kuch nahi pada”

She heard voices outside

Piyush had returned

“Kaisi hain Ma?” he asked

“She is going to take a nap”

Piyush playfully pulled the pencil out of her hair

“DON’T DO THAT” Viveka ordered

“Banaya kar baal”

“OK aunty”

They had a slapping match as he pulled the pencil out each time shetucked it in her joora… they annoyed each other 5 times and he went in

She tied her hair and her phone rang,

It was Abhishek

“OK sorry sorry sorry… I had to wait for my cousin to comehome” she giggled

She wandered the room and chatted by the glass slidingdoors

Piyush and Raanav were deep in conversation with some open manilafolders

“Arey yeh forms 10 baar bhej chuke hain Dad”

Viveka chuckled

Her mother hated the “Dad” word

She mocked it saying it was from a “special wealth category”

“Bua’s kids belonged in that” her mind voice confirmed

“See you in 2 hours”she promised Abhishek, go home change and drive back

She packed up noisily

“Ja kidhar rahi hai”

“My friend’s house”

“Kiske ghar?” “Mansi ya Rhea?” he asked proprietorially

“Oh wow!” she laughed at his prying

“Bhai hoon poochhoonga nahi?” Piyush flexed

“It’s a friend… he is leaving for the states for his commencement…Bye bolne ja rahi hoon”

“IN kapdon mein?” he demanded

“Shut up” Viveka shook her head dismissively

“Tayar hokar ja BF se milne ja rahi hai” he mocked

“I am GOING TO” she promised

Raanav watched her leave with all her things

She didn’t say goodbye

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