DOTW # 5 (August 5, 2017)

Swaragini was originally started off as the tale dealing with the incomplete love story of Shekhar and Sharmistha who have separated and moved on in life with their respective families but are later united by their daughters Swara and Ragini But soon it moved on to a tale of half-sisters and cousins, of sibling rivalry turning murderous, of love lost and betrayed, of vengeance turning into friendship, friends falling into love and lovers finding soul mates.

[Cannot resist mention here, the serial is dubbed in Arabic and aired on MBC Bollywood as "Wamin Alhabi Ma Qatal" Google translates as same as "It is love what is Killed" Any reader with knowledge of Arabic could give a better translation, but it is suitable, in a twisted way]

It was a story that pitted sister against sister, blood against blood and showed us that love can be found in the most unlikely places and at unlikely times.

An enchanting story of a man finding love when he had given up on it and a woman who stopped believing in its existence. Swara and Sanskaar are a magical, spellbinding couple, whose intense love story is undoubtedly one for the ages. It is for sublimely beautiful sagas like theirs, that ballads have been composed and epics written. They embody soul mates in every sense of the term. To see SwaSan, is to recollect the immortal lines of Rabindranath Tagore's great poem: 'Unending Love'

"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In life after life, in age after age, forever."

An unbelievable love story of a woman who fought destiny to win the man she loved, who did not hesitate to try to kill her sister (twice), who watched her parents break up and who descended to the depths of hell to keep him only to realise that he had never had and might never love her. And in one of the contradictions of life, it was only when she gave up on him that she won him over. Ragini and Laksh represented a love story of imbalances, her intensity pitted against his immaturity and her obsessiveness matched by his impulsiveness. RagLak depict to an earthly love, capable of dusty sandstorms when crossed and creating an oasis when at peace with each other. Their love story is synonymous with what Ragini says when she, for a brief second, realises the futility of love and of her love story with Laksh

"Mohabbat buri hai, kahe jaate hain, kiye jaate hain"

A serial which kept us hooked to the inane twists in the plots, the mind numbing tracks, some were downright ridiculous😕 and others demanded a suspension of logic to remain sane. Quite a few of us stopped watching it, though we never stopped our visits to this forum and some of us took to writing to overcome the angst and agony at the tracks shown. And once it ended, it has left a huge vacuum in our hearts and we still resort to writing to relive those days.😭

(credit - write up on SwaSan - Viji (@Cogito_Ergo_Sum - how we miss her, and Shru and a few others who no longer visit this forum😭)

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And for all of us who are still unable / unwilling to leave their world

A chance to relive those days,

An opportunity to reminisce the times that have gone by

A reason to talk about SwaSan, Swaragini and this forum

A place to come back to for as Harshada (@lovetowrite) said,

"I miss Sanskar.

I miss Swara.

I miss SwaSan.

I miss Swaragini.

I miss this forum

It has been seconded by quite a few of us though Nimmi (@ Banjaaran) put it quite well "I miss my girls and friends. I miss myself; the one I used to be in the forum; be it being writer or analyzing or drooling or bashing or even fighting. This is home and I miss my home and above all my home mates. And yes the reason why we all were here... Sanskaar and Swara and SwaSan.

For when Harshu (a big squishy hug to you) posted this thread, we found quite of our friends here and that set me thinking, (not a very nice thing, it leads to complicated things, this thread being proof or ends up with my writing stories) a general discussion thread seems to garner more response than a story so how about having a regular periodical thread where all of us can talk our hearts out on one specific topic'

And that is how this was born😊

Where every week we shall select one topic to discuss it threadbare, anything thing under the sun as long as it is related to Swaragini. How do we select the topic, any of us can decide, I shall give the link where you can post the topic and the next Friday, the DOTW would be on that topic.

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And my apologies for missing the Friday deadline.

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