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How could Shagun do this? How could she torment Buaji like that?that too not just any Buaji...my beloved buaji!! My ideal...that person who shunned her own son for me & my hopeless family... disposed any notion of useless emotions like love that I harboured as a child, & taught me that a frown or a scowl was an extremely effective way to squirm my way out of answering questions which would prove what a low IQ I have! Good we are rid of that Shagun! She would have surely caused my darling Buaji heaps of grief! This Anant is also such a naamuraad!! But Buaji & Baba said they wanted to get him married soon...hmm...so I have to do something...what??
Thus...Om Prakash Bajpayee paced his room in his pink kurta, the perpetual frown in place like lines etched on a stone. He glanced towards the door & saw the bird himself flutter by, spring in his(Anant's) steps, a relieved & huge smile plastered on his face, the mobile glued to his ear like a body extension and a laptop tucked under the other arm.
"Technology!! Useless inventions!Hmph" he snorted in disgust.
But there was something about technology that he knew, that he could use in his plan to cage the only free bird in the family. He could certainly use a computer once someone turned it on for him! Now, what was it that he had overheard in Nimisha's engagement party...he couldn't...oh yes, he definitely could & would. He called for Mohan & ordered him to give up his laptop for a couple of weeks...Om had some urgent work. In a matter of 1 week, he produced Anant's biodata and posted it on shaadi.com! What a person can achieve if he truly applies himself to it, irrespective of the age!! Surely, now it was a matter of days when Anant would bid farewell to his carefree days. He recalled Bua Dadi's words...Catch them young, squash their dreams, snip their wings, burden their inexperienced shoulders & minds with responsibilities so great, they just wont be able to function without depending on your advice.Yup..he saw sense in that counsel!
A year later...
Om Prakash Bajpayee, with a heavy heart logged onto shadi.com, disappointed and angry.1 year ago, it had led him to the wondrous internet world & he had become a learned man! Though the kind of knowledge he had gained would definitely earn him an exile from this house,😉 but Buaji & Baba would not touch anything remotely technical, and no one else in the house would dare to venture close to his 10 month old partner in crime! His secret was safe. But currently, he was just disappointed in shadi.com. It had failed to produce any fruitful alliance which met their high standards. The few girls that they had managed to short list, had been so horrific that even he had suffered from nightmares! & then his sapoot had dropped the bomb shell. He had dared to bring up the L word in front of the seniors, had expressed his desire to marry the girl...
she hails from a mamooli family for crying out loud! Whats wrong with that second born of mine?!!😡 He could not be my byproduct!! Where was I 9 months prior to his birth? Sugandha was slim & trim then, who knows🤔...she couldn't, could she...naah!!! No one could resist my charm even in those days...!!😎Must be genes from Sugandha's side of family!!Aargh!!!But we Bajpayee seniors are no less!!
Baba had a plan up his sleeves. Anant would get engaged to "that" girl but marriage? Naah!! 😈It would happen only as per the decision of the trio who had 1 leg each hanging in their respective graves!!! He retracted Anant's biodata from the site, but left his profile active with the words, keep an eye out on this one! We are temporarily withdrawing the biodata as the family is going on a pilgrimage to wash away the sins of the younger generation. He couldn't wait to start bride hunt part 2. Hail the Bajpayee Mogambos!!
1 week later...
A flummoxed Om Prakash Bajpayee sat in front of his lapmati. 😆Something very strange was going on. The juvenile had gone berserk...all this thoughts and sentences started & ended with Navya.😕 He definitely is not mine! Instead of concentrating on upcoming exams, he is planning a month long h...h...u-know-what trip! Befuddled, he opened his gmail account and for the first time, there were more than 10 emails in his inbox! 😲Lost in thought, he opened the one from shadi.com admin team. His nightmare hadn't ended it seemed. They had somehow found out that Anant was now engaged & Om had lied about the pilgrimage. Price one pays for being rich & famous! He quickly went through the other emails & sunk lower & lower in his seat. These spiteful emails were from prospective brides, who went to the same college as Anant & apparently they had known from quite early on that Anant was seeing Navya! Anant had become infamous...their family pride was being maligned. Who in their right mind would marry their daughter to such a guy? If Mishraji buckles under the pressure we are putting on him, then Baba's dream of seeing last baal-vivaah in the family will be shattered!Desperate times call for desperate measures... and with this thought he called upon Deepak Mishra & arranged an emergency meeting. What Mishraji had to say could wait...Bajpayee aan, baan & shaan were at stake here!
1 day later'
A dejected Om Prakash Bajpayee sunk into his recliner. This couldn't be happening! Anant would be marrying Navya within a week, at the Bajpayees expense since Mr. Mishra had lost his job. Oh & they would be getting dowry aplenty! 🤢The entire Mishra clan would be moving into the Bajpayee mansion soon as Mr. Mishra had to vacate his flat within next 3 weeks! The Bajpayees couldn't afford to have their sambandhis on streets...what would people say??Something about the best laid plans taunted him at the back of his mind...just thenMohan walked in...
"Papa, I want to talk to you"
"Not now"
"Oh but this is important...u have to listen to me!"
"Go away for God's sake!"
"Yup...that's exactly what I am doing! You forced me to marry that ganwar Rama, but thank God for small mercies & slimey scumbags...I have found my soulmate in my assistant, Renu. We both have decided that we don't need meddlesome buddhe in our lives...so we are going away..."
"No you cant go!"
"Oh yes I can! & I am! Anant inspired me & now I think its high time I stand up for myself!"
"Mohan...dont go..."
1 month later...
Buaji , with an iron plaster around her neck to prevent it from jerking(she was found to have jhatkomania), Baba, with his eyes bandaged(he was recently treated for macular degeneration which had caused the eye bulging actions!) and a visibly relaxed & smiling, bald & clean shaven Om(better to give up on weighty and itchy stuff instead of carrying the unnecessary baggage had been his recent ultimate realization) sat around AnYa who were conducting a discourse on love. The trio were beginners and had heaps to learn, but they had able teachers. Sometimes the unexpected results are better than the expected & planned ones, thought Om. They broaden the perspective, they prove some assumptions were wrong. Letting go doesn't mean losing power, it means having greater power on yourself... Navya...bless her heart, if she wouldn't have talked some sense into Mohan & Renu, if she wouldn't have found out about Buaji & Baba's condition & organized their treatments, if she wouldn't have disclosed about Anant's plan, if she wouldn't have gifted her 2 weeks honeymoon to Sugandha & me(our first honeymoon!)...if she wouldn't have come to this house...we would have been poorer by heaps. Our house looks like a railway platform these days, what with the reformed Kanpuri Mishras here on vacations, mending relations with the Mumbai Mishras, Harsh & Nimisha at each other's throat all the time, but the echoes of laughter resonating within these walls do please the ears. They've made this house into a home. And I now know smiling uses fewer muscles than frowning! I googled it!!! 😆
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