Love, Unrequited [Thread 2 : Pg 140] - Page 34

GN, kind of a bit busy today.

Will write a detailed comment later on.

Just wanted to tell you that this was another stellar update. 👏

For curiosity's sake, did you club Adam Smith and Paul Krugman together?😆

I love the way you have etched Kirti. One really gets her; her aspirations, disappointments, envy...

I don't understand the scene with Nishit. Does he want a friendship with her or something deeper? The girlfriend is still on the scene. Maybe there was always a connection between them, without putting a label on it.

P.S: Loved the musings on privatization. I feel the biggest thing we achieved was to take along a vastly diverse mass of people unified for the most part, hoping for a better future. We did get many out of poverty, created an aspirational few generations, but for things to go south once again. I used to think the biggest thing we can teach the world would be how to survive, live together. Oh well😆

"Nice" update 😉

Kirti's flights of fancy are something else! Now all she needs to do is allow a little of that unfettered thought to seep into her life. I like the underlying antagonism that exists between her and Nishit's conversations. It pulls her out of her comfort zone. As you pointed out, it's easy to get lazy intellectually when information is provided is convenient bite sizes, and no one around you challenges your views.

Watching Biplab and Prasanna's pehla nasha pehla khumaar unfold was cute to read.

PS - Lays ho toh Magic Masala ho, warna na ho 😎

Nice update GN.

A picnic which started off with fun, unfortunately ended on a sour note.

One does get where Kirti is coming from. Hearing about Nishit's achievements and her thinking about her own "failures" due to circumstances, it felt natural for her to get agitated and even feel envy of Nishit. But I really want Kirti to come out of this self pity and start working towards achieving something she wants. She really has to let go of this negative approach in life. I wish she stays happy more.

Nishit does have a girlfriend right. If he can recoginse that Biplab was flirting with Prasanna, then he can realise that he is flirting with Kirti too. Kirti got carried away with his flirting but Mithali's phone call kind of pulled her back to reality.

Biplab and Prasanna seem to have taken a liking towards each other.

Their conversations and interactions are so cute to read.

Kirti teasing Biplab about Lily and the entire scene was so cute.

In the end, when all were in deep thoughts about the day and their lives, Biplab was worried if Prasanna believed that he has no interest in Lily 😆

From a picnic, trek, climbing trees for guavas, drawing tattoos to discussions on current topics of privatizing public banks to comparing Indian and Chinese growth/economy....fun, light hearted to some light discussion on current topic😘

I liked how you have etched Kirti..a product of circumstances...there is insecurity, a bitterness and a lethargy in trying to fight today change her circumstances. Hopefully she will ponder on her conversation with Nishit..specially his comment about Jharkhand (herself) and need to be proactive in doing somethinh rather than blaming the past or circumstances.

Also her conversation with him about banks/economy was more a dialogue where his probing was more so she would clarify her point and did not hesitate to compliment when he agreed. Never did he take over the conversation or derail the conversation by his own knowledge of the subject 😘

I am assuming you on purpose made Prasanna mix Paul Krugman name with Adam Smith 😊

Also Kirti's mom is not dead like I had assumed just left her family.

I am confused with the junior engineer conversation..so Kirti is not a engineer but has a undergrad degree in Economics ? Also she did not attend college with Nishit then but I thought Shruti remembered him from their college days ?

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Originally posted by: bakwas_serial

From a picnic, trek, climbing trees for guavas, drawing tattoos to discussions on current topics of privatizing public banks to comparing Indian and Chinese growth/economy....fun, light hearted to some light discussion on current topic😘

I liked how you have etched Kirti..a product of circumstances...there is insecurity, a bitterness and a lethargy in trying to fight today change her circumstances. Hopefully she will ponder on her conversation with Nishit..specially his comment about Jharkhand (herself) and need to be proactive in doing somethinh rather than blaming the past or circumstances.

Also her conversation with him about banks/economy was more a dialogue where his probing was more so she would clarify her point and did not hesitate to compliment when he agreed. Never did he take over the conversation or derail the conversation by his own knowledge of the subject 😘

I am assuming you on purpose made Prasanna mix Paul Krugman name with Adam Smith 😊

Also Kirti's mom is not dead like I had assumed just left her family.

I am confused with the junior engineer conversation..so Kirti is not a engineer but has a undergrad degree in Economics ? Also she did not attend college with Nishit then but I thought Shruti remembered him from their college days ?

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I had the same question, whether Adam Smith got crossed with Paul Krugman😆

Originally posted by: kizh72

I had the same question, whether Adam Smith got crossed with Paul Krugman😆

We will know soon 😊

I will (patiently) wait for that day when we get to know what was going through Nishit's mind on this day - right from the bus stop till the time he found those forgotten frangipanis in his pocket. That man is as much a mystery to us as he is to us - banda sochta kuch hain, bolta kuch hain aur karta kuch hain!

This chapter had so many moods, and I enjoyed every one of them. Highs of Ekadashi & lows of Amavasya - this update had it all. Loved the arguments between Nishit & Kirti and also loved the growing closeness between Biplab & Prasanna. Laughed out loud when the brother was smuggling all things dear to his sister, to his lady love and how the sister could foresee a very tragic end of being homeless & penniless. But fikr not Kirti...Bhabhi ne clip liya, toh uske Bhai ne pen bhi toh diya 😉 I don't think the pen will be returned any time soon. It is as close to this person as the umbrella is to the other.

Also loved the conversation about dreams and the tattoo drawings. Looks like Nishit did not want the moment to end, and that man gives eclairs as fees!! Sold 😍

Nishit's long list of accomplishments made Kirti feel worse about her current situation. I could really understand her frustration & disappointments. She has been struggling for quite a while now. While peers and friends have achieved what they had set out to, she is still stuck in a rut. A lot of that can be attributed to the fact that she had to make certain decisions & choices to fulfill her responsibilities, but one cannot deny that after a while she did stop trying. She is afraid of failure, she is afraid of letting down her Dadi and she is afraid of taking risks. For instance, she has given up on the coaching class job even before giving the interview. Nishit's words seems to have given her the much needed confidence and drive to try harder. She has the potential, she just needs to believe in herself and Nishit's praise seems to have helped her do just that. Well, atleast it was helping up until that goddamn phone call, after which everything went south at the speed of light. I have a feeling Nishit & Mithila's relation is not what meet's our eyes. Kirti's eyes, to be precise. They may have been dating, but my guess is they aren't at the moment. Mithila's call acted as a wake up call for Kirti...din toh gazab ka tha, but momentarily she had forgotten that the song ends with - phir bhi jaan-e-jaan, main kahan aur tum kahan.

The chapter was deliciously long and I feel like I am missing many things that I wanted to say when I was reading. Will be back if I think of something else.

Adam Smith + Paul Krugman = Adam Krugman 😆😅

Had to keep the person kalpanik (fictitious) with no resemblance to real person 😂

Originally posted by: kizh72

Here's the link: Aamozish

I remember starting the lessons. I think I might have covered first three lessons and then got busy with life.