A Tale of Three Dads - update Page 12 - Page 5

Originally posted by: PuvZ

It was a touching letter from a son. Great writing skills

Xiao Hei

Originally posted by: aimf

It appears that the creative muse has blessed you this weekend. Ansh's thought patterns are very nicely written. One can clearly see the confusion and discomfort from the standpoint of a 6 year old child. Your post spurred me to share these thoughts:

Yes, Ansh had given his trust to Ashant in the form of the band and the promise that they will always be friends. It was a promise spontaneously and freely given, like his love for his friend-uncle. That is how children generally are, unless they have been subject to ill-treatment, neglect, or abuse. The most important thing here is the chain of events that led to wanting to rescind his promise, covertly, if not overtly:

1. Being made to "help out" his dost uncle by undergoing the painful bone marrow donation not once but twice. Here Ansh was clearly told that he had to help his friend uncle who had helped his mother and now needed his help.

2. Rescuing the aforementioned "friend uncle" (I do not like to call him that at all now, even in quotes) from collapsing in a pool of his own bloody cough, by phoning his papa and being part of taking him to the hospital.

3. Being sworn to secrecy by spineless Sattu, who tells Ansh not to reveal to Yash anything about the friend uncle.

4. Being witness to a scary game being played by the elders including his own mother, badi mummy and bade papa, who pretended not to know Prashant on diwali day.

5. Becoming gradually aware that the so-called friend uncle stresses out his mumma, makes her sick, and brings out the worst in her.

6. Discovering that his papa was being kept in the dark, but not knowing exactly about what.

7. Becoming an unwilling but helpless participant in this strange game of deceipt, lies, and cover up.

8. Being told by stranger Kaki that Ashant was his father.

9. Being wrongly guided by Ashant to retaliate with vengeance.

This is not an exhaustive list, by far, but it makes a few things abundantly clear:

1. Although it is not his duty to do so at all, Ansh has more than "repaid" the debt owed by his mother to Ashant. If nothing else, he has given this nalayak a new lease of life, with his own body, his marrow.

2. With the sixth sense of a child, Ansh has sensed that there is something dangerous here. He may not be able to articulate his reasoning, but he definitely senses that this friend uncle is up to no good, because the gap between his own father, who does everything in the open, and this Ashant is wider than the grand canyon. Even if he does not understand anything, the fact that his parents do not at all seem to approve of the presence of this so called uncle is enough to make a child like Ansh deeply uncomfortable.

3. Ansh also, like PayPal, has equated the presence of Ashant and the scary Kaki to his mother being punished by dada and dadiji, the grandparents, and to their subsequent banishment to the store-room devoid of the comfort of their home, and the happy company of grandpa, grandma, aunts, and uncles.

For these reasons, it is very clever of Ansh to have mentally reevaluated his relationship with Ashant, and extremely lowly and manipulative of Prashant to keep reminding Ansh of his his so called promise. OM Shantih

Originally posted by: yamunah79

meena, i am so astonished by your writting...i just put myself in Ansh shoes while reading your post...well done dear...keep on giving like this more... 😉

Originally posted by: aimf

Meena

Thank you for your kind post. I think I must have learned to think in numbers from you only. That methodical style is so much yours, no? Happy Pongal, by the way.

Originally posted by: anonee

@Vanny

Thank you for the detailed comments on both parts. The CVs have truly excelled in their portrayal of P and hopefully now they will come through with Ansh too. This was key element introduced ever since AarYa's PV talks were initiated between G3-n-Vidhi and the Dupey - so I glad they are pulling off this track with such elan!!