Part-7
"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
Joseph Conrad
Gopi smiled when Anand said this to her. The bus was moving rather slowly and Anand was reading. Gopi asked him whether he doesn't feel giddy...Anand smiled at her, he loved the fact that Gopi was concerned about him...a small corner in his heart wanted her to care for him...he looked out of the window and remarked that it would take them another ten minutes to reach the workshop venue.
Gopi had transformed amazingly in the past two years. Earlier she was a shy and reticent girl who shied away from talking to men who are not related to her...and now she was comfortable travelling in co-worker's company.
Anand was her companion is this journey but what about the journey of life?
Ahem had hired a detective to trace Gopi and today he brought the good news to the Modi parivar...Ahem was delighted at this piece of news, he look wistfully at his son's photograph which the detective had given him..but he didn't know how to approach her...he didn't have the courage to face her...he had behaved barbarically with her, abandoned her after she became pregnant and denied fathering her child...how could he ask for forgiveness..how can he ask her permission to meet the child he had forsaken.
He had violated her body and insulted her morals, he had compounded his mistakes by throwing her out of house. No wife can forgive her husband if he casts such kind of aspersions on her.
Mater semper certa; pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant
Ahem had heard it before but it now it disturbed him a lot.
Gopi returned to her son after the seminar got over, Prabal greeted her by shouting Ma...Ma.. It was one of the few words in the little one's vocabulary.
Ahem thought a lot about wooing Gopi back into his life, he knew that the task was very very difficult but he had to atone for his sins...and he couldn't do that without meeting her...he wanted to meet his son before he starts questioning his mom about his absence in their lives...It was bad enough that Gopi hated him, he didn't was his son to despise him. He would give him all the comforts he is entitled to, he would give him his love and attention...he was his heir...he shouldn't be staying in an institution..he is not an orphan, MM is his home.
Edited by feviewer - 13 years ago