Hey Nita my dear pal...🤗 🤗
I've been meaning to comment for a few days now, but got delayed owing to a lot of work and official travel pressure, and not yet being back to full health. Thanks for bearing with me in the interim. 🤗
Congratulations on the new thread first of all. 🤗
I've told you this before, and I'll say it again: the steady, incremental progress you've shown in the bond between Sanskaar and Swara is so lovely and realistic. Love doesn't usually happen in a jiffy. The lasting kind of love, the soulmate kind of love, takes time to develop and flower in all its intensity. I really liked the party scene you showed in chapter 9, where Sanskaar was all lost in admiring Swara's beauty in that party dress. 😳 She really enjoyed his attention too, and had a sense of comfort and belonging, when being introduced as his wife. 😉 Though they are still on the voyage of discovering what they really feel for each other, a certain sense of possessiveness and familiarity has definitely started coming through...for both of them. 😊
I loved the very mature way Swara handled those girls who were indulging in malicious gossip about her. She calmly told them that she wouldn't complain about them to her husband, but they needn't stay at the party since they obviously didn't identify with the reason for the event...to warmly congratulate the couple and share in their joy. 👏👏 That must have seriously put those gossip mongers in their place and shown them the mirror about how shallow they were. 👏
I also loved how Sanskaar very calmly and firmly told that girl Tara, that her interest in him during their college years was completely one sided. As far as he was concerned, they were part of a friends group and that was it. So amazing and typical of Sanskaar, that he very politely but firmly said this in Tara's and Swara's presence. He is one cool dude...believes in speaking his mind, the full truth, without any unnecessary drama. 👏
So the mystery of the girl in Sanskaar's phone book...the one whose name was followed by a string of hearts...was his beloved kid sis Uttara. 😊 I kind of suspected that, so happy that my guess worked out correct. Swara must have felt very relieved. 😉
Coming to chap 10, I loved the family dynamics you've shown. Uttara's love for her parents and her guilt at their passing was wonderfully described. As was the way her bond developed with her uncle and aunt, to the extent where she started calling Sujata "Ma". Again, her feeling of guilt at that, and then how she came out of those feelings of blaming herself, were very well described.
Her bond with both her brothers---Sanskaar, of course, but also how she grew to be very fond of Lakshya too, was nice to read about.
So Kavita was Uttara's friend...and Sanskaar didn't want her to worry and feel sad about how her friend had literally deserted her beloved bhai at the altar. But all's well that ends well...was so much fun reading about Uttara's bonding with both her bhabhis. That part, about Swara looking at Sanskaar, and him blinking at her to let her know that he was fine with her taking Uttara's side in her cute, child like quarrel with her brothers, was so cute. 😊 Very couple like.
That conversation between Swara and Sanskaar was again, so perceptive and mature. They really are made for each other. And slowly, they are coming to feel for each other too. Those "slips" each of them made in their talk, indicating how each of them feels a bonding, a sense of belonging and protectiveness over the other...that was really well described.
So Lucky and Ragini take the next step in their relationship huh. 😉😳 I was laughing at that sentence about how Lucky didn't want to get Unlucky the next night, so he wanted to keep Ragini in good humor. 😆
And Annapurna...God, what a conniving, narrow minded, machiavellian person she is. Has no sense of family, no sense of perspective. So happy that Ragini seems to have discovered the goodness within herself, after her frank talk with Lakshya and Swara. She is still scared of her domineering, commanding mother, but has realized how wrong she is, how futile and venomous Annapurna's resentment towards Swara is. All her life, Ragini felt a bit jealous of Swara, and this feeling was actively caused and fueled by Annapurna. But now it looks quite hopeful that Ragini would be able to come out of that.
And in the end, lovely tidings of the SwaSan honeymoon in New York. 😊 Wow...I love NY. Amazing place, I hope you give us scenes of them having a stroll in Central Park, walking down the Manhattan or the Brooklyn bridge, visiting the Statue of Liberty...😊 And RagLak going to Italy. Mamma Mia!! 😳😆
Waiting to read the next chapter my dear. Also, I will be traveling (this time on a much needed holiday 😊), from April 11 to 20. Please bear with brief comments in that time, I will be reading and commenting from phone.
Loads of Love 🤗
Viji