Baba chose to stay behind in India instead of accompanying Ashu. He insisted that he is more needed in India than in some foreign country. For the past ten years he settled in a village and running a medical facility for the mining victims from illegal mining... Not only the mining changed the geographical features leaving locals in the lurch of rain and thus water, it left such huge dusty clouds ... almost everyone is affected with the illness in lungs... and eventually, Baba's philanthropy took toll on his own health and now admitted in KGH.
Ashu felt a twinge of guilt on seeing Baba on the bed... what sort of a son he is... he could not be a good husband.. not even a good son...
'Baba!! I am not going to listen to you..I have come to take you'
'No Ashu!! I am not running anywhere... these are my people! unlike you, I love them!'
Unlike him!!! Baba doesnt have an idea how much he loved Nidhi... how much he still loves Nidhi... After the divorce, he ran away to London..literally escaped... His professor welcomed him with open hands and gave the reins of his research..'the abnormal patterns of breathing during swallowing in neurological disorders'...
wounded heart works wonders.. he immersed himself into the work... and surfaced to be one of the best in the field.
His juniors look at him in awe... but could never dare to shoo away his loneliness nor ask about the painful look in his eyes..His loneliness was accompanied only by his love...
last time when he heard, she restarted her studies and was doing medicine somewhere in Delhi... suddenly a small part of his brain reminded him, his flight back to London is from Delhi...
Dean of KGH came to meet the best Neurologist in the world.. After a little while, the conversation went to Baba's health and then to the mining victims.
'KGH is set up by a charity trust... we are doing all our best to support your father's cause'
'If you need donations..'
'Money is not a problem.. fortunately our young and efficient brains are working hard to get the right publicity and donations.. what we need is skills..we are lacking of specialists and someone to lead the strange problems they are facing ... if you could go through it..while you are here...'..
This is very close to Baba's heart... obviously close to him as well... goes without any doubt... but...
he came to a decision.. 'can I meet your PR head?'
'well right... he is playing a football match today for us... he is the star player.. but if you go right away.. you may see him'
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'Nidhi! I am shocked.. you dont know that I have an important match today?'
'...'
'you must come and cheer me... dont tell me that you have work'
'Nidhi..Nidhi..nidhi...Nidhi..please..please'
'Rohan'
'yes'
'Rohan'
'yes I know my name... ab aage bol'
'ROHAN'
'Yah.. this is how you must cheer up from the stands'
she couldnt stop burst into laughing... 'yes..yes.. and I wear that clown hat too.. to distract your opponents...'
Rohan reminded her ..her self.. she was like this... she spoke non-stop...she spoke both questions and answers her self... well!! that was before her marriage... She wanted to do masti with Ashu... but always... somehow stopped short...
Ashu was like a mine of knowledge... he is so motivated in his work and the only topic he spoke enthusiastically was his subject... Nidhi never had interest in studies and especially in medicine.. forcefully she had to join in medicine to fulfill her late mother's wishes...
she wanted to play around him... Not that particularly Ashu was a nerdy... but some how she revered him... always felt an aura around him separating her from him... he was extra disciplined ..that made her slightly scared to meddle with him...couples need intimacy.. not the godliness kind of worship..
finally, there was a point... she could not bear all this anymore... she lost him... never knew whether he lost her... picked up the studies where she left... this time Ashu's enthusiasm rubbed on her little bit.. she passed with 14th rank overall and achieved gold medals in two subjects...
Rohan is truly mesmerized... at the dazzling beauty in front of him... automatically he moved forward and took Nidhi into his arms...
This is the precise moment Ashu chose to enter Rohan's chamber... the doors of KGH's cabins never close when it is absolutely needed...
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