Originally posted by: CogitoErgoSum
Sigh 😕 😕...I must confess, Nynu; that I have been sort of mildly putting off this comment. Work has been a tad tight today, but all the same, the main reason for me pushing this by at least a few hours, was the fact that I hated to feel I was at the end of this journey. Emotional crank that I am!! 😕
It feels hard to bid goodbye to something that was so sweet, so delectable. Even though I know the entire Fic is on the forum, for us to greedily savor and relish again in the future. Silly, I know. But there it is...
The writer me is delirious with happiness reading and re-reading the above lines, and I think it is such warm wonderful comments that take away a part of the emptiness I feel now that I do not have anything to write in this tale - but then it had to come to an end.
I loved this ending...it gave that feeling of a warm glow, a picture of a family that has healed from the the happenings of the past and come together again, discovered joy and bliss and contentment again.
All of the families did suffer, one way or the other, so it was only right that all of them have their own version of a happy ending😊
Sujata's near delirious relishing of Swara's rosogullas was awesome. I LOVE rosogullas, BTW, they are my favorite dessert (along with badam halwa, kaju rolls, Toblerone and Cote D'Or Chocolates...Yes, I have a sweet tooth! 😆😉) I was grinning at your description of her making perfunctory snide remarks about a bengali bahu, till she tasted Shomi's rosogullas. And then her demanding that Swara should only bring with her, her skill in making this delectable treat, and insisting she prepare this for her rasoi ki rasam. 😆 Oh Sujju is so priceless! 😆 Ram's recollections of her foibles was priceless! So she sniffed that Sunny as a baby was too red faced and scrawny; and Uttara as too tiny and mousy? 😆 🤣 The hospital nurses and the gynaec must have had their hands full with her!
Rasogullas - my favourite too, in spite of me not having a sweet tooth, I so miss the ones in Jamshedpur. Few shops in Hyderabad match to my memories of those succulent white balls floating in sugary syrup, so I am sure most of us can understand Sujju's fascination for the same.
Given her habit of never liking anything at first sight, it was easy to imagine her not liking her new born kids either - the hospital nurses must truly be bewildered by her, imagine her saying " jijiii, yeh mhara chora, itna lal aur patla, na baba na!🤣🤣🤣
Ram truly has the patience of a saint, which must where Sanskaar gets his patience from, to deal with Swara😉
Loved the nuance and subtlety you put into the AP---Ragini equation. It was a lovely twist, AP feeling a tad jealous that Sujata had a bahu in Swara, whose skills AP would have so wanted in her own. 😊 And the fact that Sujju didn't care about those accomplishments, she loved Swara for her qualities, rankling AP a bit further----that little nugget felt so realistic. People do think this way sometimes...
Most people do think that way, they are blind to what they have, jealous of what others have and then upset that the others do not think the way they do and feel they should right fully have that quality or thing or person as they are capable of appreciating it better. But then it is not a few qualities that define a person completely, it that something else, a willingness to love and respect, to give and take that matters in any relationship.
AP is a great cook and a singer, so the fact that her daughter in law did not have those to qualities must have rankled a lot, till she realises the true value of what she has. Ragini did win AP over, by striking a chord in her heart (bad pun)
Sunny as goolu ka ghulam. 😆🤣 And as I said before, he wouldn't let this tag rankle him at all...he would so calmly agree it was completely true! Loved the way you sketched his innate nature here----of expressing his deep feelings with absolute abandon, with no constraints whatsoever. He would have no qualms showing his ardent love for his wife; just as he threw himself into the family business with such resolute passion. It is who he is, and he is at ease with that.
Sunny silencing Swara most effectively----that image will stay with us forever, no? 😳 😉
Goolu ka Ghulam - I am so proud of myself for coming up with this tag😈 but then it does describe Sunny without demeaning him in the least. He loves his wife, she is very reasonable in what she asked, so if doing what she wanted was to be labelled as such, he is absolutely fine, no issues at all (at least those meaning "problems" not the other ones😉, though he would want to wait for a couple of years😉😉).
Sunny silencing Swara - very effective, especially as she has a tendency to simply melt and disappear into his arms which would lead to some other actions😉😳
Loved the whole bit about Ragini's cooking skills, or should I say, the lack of them. 😆 And the little snippet that she was actually not as bad as she let on, and she manipulated her failures to make Lucky or Sanskaar won their bets. 😆
Ragini would definitely not be above a little mischief and pretense, she could not be such a bad cook, considering she was trained by Dadi and Dragon Das, so if the family had fun placing bets, she had her revenge manipulating her failures. Fair game.😆
So Mrs Shobha (Ex Dragon) Das 😉 is now officially Ma to Shomi, as well as Dida to the girls. Felt so emotionally satisfying, the thought that she found family in them; and they in her, in a sense. The Dida---Dadi culinary wars was classic. Eternal Frenemies they shall remain! 😆 😉 Do you think they love to hate each other, or hate to love each other? 😉 That whole bit of their cookery contests, with nobody being unable to judge between them conclusively was rib ticklingly funny.
Mrs. Das so deserved it, right, she took a big chance when she took those girls in (though it cannot be denied that even the girls took a huge risk going with her, an absolute stranger) and invested her time and heart in them. She did so much good, so she gets more in return. She gets her granddaughters, found her daughter in Sharmishta and discovered a friend / enemy in Dadi. And I think they actually did not mind who won their contests, as long as every dish they made was licked clean😆
The lovely picture of tranquil contentment in the end---with Shomi and Shekar looking happily over at their laughing daughters, Sanskaar having made a wisecrack at Lakshya's expense; with Dadi and Dida gently mock squabbling over the quantity of food on that groaning, about to collapse table...was pure bliss.
That should help erase the pain and misery of the five years of estrangement they suffered, not knowing what happened to their daughters, not sure of them being alive, watching their family being whole and added to, laughter rebounding...
I will be reading this again, again and again...Just like I quite like swirling my swigs of adrak and elaichi chai around my mouth. 😉 Brings out the flavor...and I must say, I am on Swara's side as regards the Great beverage debate. 😉
And I with Sunny boy - though to be fair, I made him a coffee lover but still, a love affair with coffee - is a lifetime one😊
But for now, as elated as I am at the thought of re reading...I must say again, Nynu...that I feel quite bad that this journey has ended. Do look forward to embarking on the Forgotten Memories train with you soon (make that very soon, if possible? 😳😊)
Forgotten memories - I am going to post the progress in my siggy (already given the progress till date😆), that will ensure I work on it every day😊
Loads of Love,
----Viji
Cricket
Chakravarti Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan
