19/12 Dragon Club: Blast from the Past!

Love how we are inching closer and closer to the culmination of this whole issue. We have witnessed Aarti's near-psychotic compartmentalization skills and today we witnessed them collapse with a soft finality when Yash tried to look through that photo album. Aarti can't share anything about her past with Yash for fear of revealing those few moments with Prashant, and for the first time we saw her romance with Yash and the lie occupy the same moment in time, clearly showing that they can't co-exist. If Aarti was enjoying her romance with Yash so far, it was only in moments when she completely blocked out her lie.

Today she couldn't do that because it was too immediate, and so when Yash suggestively held her hand while getting the 3-pin plug, she pulled away from him, unable to enjoy or reciprocate the gesture. It's like the lie and the love have been on a collision course the whole time, one that Aarti did not perceive until they crashed. Now that they have crashed, they cannot co-exist parallely as they have been doing for so long in Aarti's mind. So it is pretty clear that once the truth is out, Aarti is going to withdraw from Yash completely, even if he does not make her. Her guilt simply will not allow her to derive comfort or joy from his presence, though he may be willing to stand by her and provide it.

And the difference between Yash and Prashant. Prashant refuses to respect Aarti's space and continues to invade her life, despite her many warnings and pleas. And why? All for his own needs and desires, so he can be happy and fill the void of loneliness. For Yash, on the other hand, all it takes is one honest request from Aarti and he drops the uncomfortable subject of her past entirely, without a grudge, because for him, Aarti's happiness and comfort mean more than his curiosity or desire to know her better. There is no doubt from his brief comment about her eyes that the child-Aarti has captured his fancy and he wants to know more about her, more about how she came to be the beautiful woman who changed his whole world. But one word from Aarti and the information is off limits for Yash, no questions asked.

The Kaaki is much as I predicted, but so much more fun! Her Pappus and Sattus are downright hilarious and I recognise this character trope from other work by the Mittals. The regressive, domineering matriarch figure is tempered by humour to remain entertaining and not make the whole feel too heavy, but she brings with her certain home truths about the state of certain sections of society. I love the side of Yash that she brought out though. He was so proudly defending Aarti and the PV, in turn making his parents proud of him and their own decision.

As hilarious as the dramatic irony was in the conversations between Yash and Prashant, it does really bring home how foolish Yash is going to feel when the truth comes out. Not only is Prashant perpetuating the lie the Dubeys told him, he is adding to it and embellishing it, making it seem like Aarti is in on the whole thing while she merely feels helpless to correct the situation. Until now, Yash was sort of vague on the details of Aarti's past and so would have been slightly less shocked to see how much it departed from the Scindias' assumption that she was a widow. Now with the talk of his own death, Prashant has cemented the idea, making it an overt lie rather than an omission of the truth, as it was before.

All that being said, I am loving Yash's subliminal battle tactics. Even though he has no idea, he is handling Prashant in exactly the right way. It was a simple gesture, but when they turned to walk back to the house, Yash put his arm around Aarti, leaving Prashant to walk behind them. He explicitly excluded Prashant and the beauty is that while Prashant has to find loopholes and weaknesses through which to attack, Yash can just march through the front door!

Can't wait for the truth to be out, because as it was hinted today by the photo album, once Aarti no longer feels the need to hide the truth about Prashant, so much about her, her whole past opens up to Yash, and hopefully to us in the process. Getting the lie out there will eventually help Aarti realise that she is not defined by the men in her life, that she is a person in her own right, constituted as much by all the memories that preceded Prashant as she is by her time with him.

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But little did he know that destiny had other plans for him...Yash accepted to remarry again for the sake of his family...On April 02 2012 he wed Aarti Dubey.

After months of living together they got to know each other, they've faced lots of ups and downs and grew closer to each other. Aarti fell head over heels in love with Yash and it may have taken him longer but he is finally there.

After realizing that he's in love he has been trying to express his feeling to Aarti but whatever he tries in his opinion failed...whether it's three bottles of beers with his brothers.

Or a diary of poems from his father.

What Yash sees as failures are nothing more than blessings in disguise cause each time he was able to get his point across resulting in Aarti falling more in love with him.




Yash's heart is busting with love for Aarti also and he wanna tell her, I love how she captivates him when she in return recites the same poem that he tried reciting to her.






Despite love blooming between Aarti and Yash there's still a dark cloud lurking around them and Yash's confession isn't gonna come until after he finds out about Aarti's past.

A past that's more present than ever, her past with his so called friend, P who has been trying to get back into Aarti's life by any means.

Prashant thinks that since he was granted a few more years to live that he has a right to come and disrupt Aarti's life all because he doesn't want to be alone.

The word boundaries doesn't seem to have any meaning for P, he even told Yash that he's envious of the love he has for Aarti and that he's angry at God cause he doesn't have that kind of happiness in his life.

Yash has already notice that something is amiss and henceforth the former will be very cautious and attentive around P.