I just noticed your comment... will reply tomorrow... đDear Bhavini!
Many thanks for your wonderful continuation and sorry for the late reply. I enjoy the reality and vitality of the characters in your stories. A conversation between Hamida and Jodha.. With all the sympathy Hamida to Jodha, she is primarily the queen, a statesman, not less than Jalal. In the first place she has to maintain stability in the state. She may feel sympathy, even respect for the Hindu-concubine, but she understands the danger and she can't accept the threat of marriage with the maid. It's impossible in the 21st century, especially in the 16th.
I'm very intrigued: it was by the consent of the father Jodha on her mission, or he didn't know about it?
I'm concerned the man who sent Jodha with such a mission. For some reason, I think, that he is not very scrupulous in choosing the means to achieve the purpose. For him there isn't the value of the life individual. For all us, all the Motherland - a sacred...
In the 30s of the 20th century we had a terrible proverb: "forest chopping - chips fly." Have in mind that for the main, a life of the individual person isn't important. It seems to me that Jodha becomes a victim, of course, voluntary, for the such idea.
More seems to me that she is blind pawn, she doesn't know exactly the whole plan. Her is used "in the dark".
Jalal and Jodha and so have the big problems between themselves, but they have and different cultures and Jalal's military ambitions ... And at this moment "betrayal" on the part of Jodha, not Jalal. I look forward to continuing.
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