Despatches Series Part 3-OS - Letter from Sanskaar to Annapurna - Page 3

Originally posted by: suhasini2727

Pure excellence 👏👏👏...

No enough words to express...

Great job.

Originally posted by: tootiefrootie11

Thank you Suhasini:)

Originally posted by: CogitoErgoSum

Hey Shru...🤗 Very powerfully articulated. Truly, the pen (lappie keyboard these days) is mightier than the sword!! Man, does Sansku need all the help he can get or what, to combat the sheer myopic and self centered disregard for his feelings, displayed by his near & dear ones. 😭

As you know, I have been very interested in AP's character, the layers and edges it has, and her relationship with Sanskaar. I had explored her back story and the intricacies of this relationship, in my OSs "Fire" & "Earth". So your take now struck an immediate chord with me. Like you said in my other thread, we really do have this soul sister connection going on over the internet. 😆 🤗

I caught myself nodding furiously at the portions where Sanskaar says, that he knows very well his badi ma will extract a penalty from him for making that false vow---by asking him to clear the scene and let Lakshya have Swara. I feel this is exactly what is going to happen in the serial, that stretch at the mandir had a grim portent, when she says that she will never forgive him, if she finds out he made a jhuti kasam. Major preparation of the ground for making an impossible demand---echoes of Kaikeyi from Ramayana, in an oblique way. 😊

I am a major history freak, Shru. All my friends throughout my school years, used to pull my leg on this; that how I could be so passionate about a subject which sent most of them to sleep. 😊 But somehow, I found it all so tremendously exciting.

The story of Panna Dhai is something that legends are made of, really, the way she put her duty above all, even above the maternal bond, which is something so, so, very atavistic to all humans. So when you referenced that, I remembered all the lovely days as a child, reading up Amar Chitra Katha, and dreaming about those days of gallantry and derring-do. 😊

I loved this para in particular: ""The reason I said above that I don't see you fully as Panna Dhai is because whilst you have the mettle to do whatever is necessary, you would still hold back from the final sacrifice if that was demanded in the form of your son Lakshya. However, should the blood that must be split was say, mine, your hand would drive that knife in deep, even if it will sever an artery within yourself at the same time.""

This was 22 kt gold!! I felt so desperately sorry for Sanskaar when I read that, for it shows he knows very well his badi ma loves him, but not as much as she loves Lucky, and he has resigned himself to that. And he is even prepared to pay the price, to fulfill what she asks of him. God, I so want one member of that family to stand up for him!!!

Can I make a request? Can the next letter be to Sanskaar's own father? (RP)? I want to see that bond playing out as well. RP never seems to intervene at all, yet he must have strong emotions for his son. Could you flesh that out, maybe?

Originally posted by: medhasarkar

Shruti🤗,

This one is dedicated to me?! Oh thank you thank you...thank you. I'd like this opportunity to mention that my parents and teachers have a huge hand in shaping me up👏. Oh sorry, thats for award ceremonies isn't it?😆

Scratch the thank you's, as well...I don't want my belan boomeranging back to me.😕

Anyway, now that I have stopped bouncing up and down...I have to quickly tell you what I felt about this letter. This is a version of Annapurna ... steely glint in the eye, and a soft cunning veil over it.

A very biased mother, who knows she loves own flesh and blood above anything else; knows that another child loves her more than his own Ma, and of course..she loves him too...but blood is thicker than water after all.

Of what I know about history, my Mom being a history Professor herself, the childless Ruqaiyya begum, Salim's step-mother and Akbar's Chief Consort,was the one who wanted Salim(jahangir) back. His own mother Jodha seemed not to have a lot of hand in getting the prodigal son back. Her love story with Akbar is hardly authentic🤢. It was a marriage done to gain power over Rajputs...and she was the Queen Mother, not even his Chief Queen. You see, she was a Hindu. She was respected yes, but never influential..because the Court already suspected her as alien to their interests.Ruqaiyya also bought Shah Jahan up. Noor jahan happened to be one of her hand maidens before jahangir set eyes upon her.😕 Seriously, its in Wikipedia. Look it up.

.---This was the crux of it all. Brilliant.👏👏👏

Your writing as ever, was polished and nice. this was frank and finger-in-the-eye...and you wrote it like the lawyer you are.👏

Love,

medha.

P.S. Who's next? I want it to be RP. Please make him have something interesting in his character. Save him. Silence is killing him😆.

Originally posted by: -TeriMalang-

Again the emotions at its best

Shruti u are fab writer *bows down*

The relation between sanskar and Annapurna was depicted like an art. They both are torn beet blood bond and soul bond.

This was the bestest ever OS I ve read. Nd m glad I read such beautiful thing.

Loved it dil se

Originally posted by: Smilelicious

Shruti this was the best letter among the 3 you wrote 👏

*bows down to you*

What an outstanding writer you are.

You portrayed their relationship so accurately and perfectly.

I had tears in my eyes while reading this, this shows how splendidly and magnificently you wrote this.

Thank you for writing this masterpiece 🤗

Originally posted by: Purbishona

I JUST LOVED THIS.. THE EMOTIONS ARE SO TRUE.. I HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES.. ANNAPURNA WAS MORE THAN HIS MOTHER TO SANSKAAR.. BUT THAT LADY'S FIRST PRIORITY WILL ALWAYS BE LUCKY. MY POOR SANSKAAR..NEXT LETTER? TO SWARA? I WANT TO READ MORE..YOU ARE A BRILLIANT WRITER..KEEP WRITING!

Originally posted by: tootiefrootie11

Medha 🤗

Perfect acceptance speech 😆. Awards dedication- all the same!

Ah yes, see re the history its a bit misleading for me to have written the way I did about Jodha, hence the disclaimer at the beginning and in the letter itself, which i refined further after an exchange with Viji. I have always been fascinated with Akbar and used to love stories about his desire to found Din-e-ilahi and loved the concept of his Hindu wife etc. I still feel despite the historical contention about it that Jodha was important and exerted influence, she is after all the only one of his wives to be buried near him and my entirely personal opinion on her exclusion from the official texts such as the Akbar-nama and Jahangir's biopic too is that she was Hindu in that world. That is why I made Sanskaar acknowledge that he believed those legends that favour Jodha as I want to, if that makes sense? I wanted to use Jodha as i wanted a Rajput example and therefore didn't use any other influential women figures such as say, Raziya Sultan etc. And yes, I knew about the wiki page and other stories too but I had to almost not delve there as it wouldn't fit into the letter so am hoping the inaccuracies in that sense can be overlooked for the sake of this snapshot:)

You and Viji both want RP so I think I'll work on the next instead of DP, as was the plan! I'll have to entirely make RP up as who the heck knows anything about him?! 😆 Lots of love back and I'm not saying thanks:) xoxo

Originally posted by: tootiefrootie11

Thanks S. Yes I wanted him to be more direct as I think it suited this. Haha! You've spotted my GoT obsession? Totally obsessed with them- read each of the books, all part of the collection both hard copy and kindle and also watch the to show religiously. I was going to ask you before about your IF name! When writing re kingmaker I was totally thinking of tywin Lannister!