Firstly, Prayers and Best Wishes for your Dad & Mom In Law, for their continued recovery and good health going forward. Parents' and children's illnesses are always much harder to bear than one's own, and can imagine how tough the past few weeks must have been. Take care of family and yourself...
Was deeply moved & honored by your mention of my comments on 'Perfection'--frankly this is my favorite work on the forum, it has become such a large part of my life over the past 10 months. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to have been able to read a work as outstanding as 'Perfection'...
Coming to this update on 'A Girl Named Khushi'- What can I say about a story that has me conflicted on so many levels? You evoke the deepest pity for Arnav, who's really living some kind of cursed existence, emotionally bleeding from the sheer guilt and self hatred for what he did to Khushi.
But then I remember, that here was the man who did not come to seek Khushi and his child, till it was well and truly too late. Who took months on end, to resolve his rage over Garima being the 'other woman' in his parents' lives--all the while knowing that Khushi, who was pregnant with his child, was waiting for him at Lakshmi Nagar, alone and defenseless, courageously facing social stigma and oppression for a 'sin' which she saw as a proof of their love!!
I can't help but contrast the behavior to that of Pradeep Singh, who threw himself literally in Death's face, in the ultimately vain attempt to save his unborn child. That is the father of whom Little Khushi has grown up to 8, hearing about.
Amrita is the mother who brought up Little Khushi till now, teaching her to be a laughing, kind & free spirit, kissing her scrapes and cuts, listening to her non stop chatter, soothing her when she was sick, wiping her tears at some child like sorrow, however insignificant.
After all, genetics accounts for only part of who we are. Little Khushi is undoubtedly a living embodiment of the wonderful woman her birth mother was, but a good share of the credit for the enthralling child she's become, must go to the 'adoptive' parents Little Khushi has grown up with--Amrita in the flesh, Pradeep in spirit.
I guess now, what is important is not what is good or bad for Arnav, but rather what is good or bad for Little Khushi.
Very eager to see how you're going to take this story forward now. Which path will Arnav choose, and how will he go about finally redeeming himself--at least partially, for all the grave wrong he's done. Can hardly wait to read what comes next!!
Cheers...
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