Tedhe Mere Raman and his Seedhi saadhi Ishita *Updated with Ishita's *

Holy Mother of God, Gan, I'm crying at your collages, especially the second
- my breath caught when I saw that one.
The poignant, overwhelming emotion beautifully captured. I have no words.
I was going to try to add thoughts of my own, but the collages got to me...I just can't.

Thank you.

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Lots of stolen words today...my feels are all over the place.

"I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you."
Audrey Niffenegger

"Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you, and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes, but it hurts them too."
Holly Black

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Raman

"The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness..."
Leo Tolstoy

Aandhi ki tarha ud kar ik raah guzarti hai

Sharmaati huwi koyi qadmo se utarti hai

In reshmi raaho mein ik raah to woh hogi

Tum tak jo pahonchti hai is mod se jaati hai

Is mod se jaate hain

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Ishita

"Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you."
Cynthia Hand

Ik door se aati hai paas aake palat-ti hai

Ik raah akeli si rukti hai na chalti hai

Ye soch ke baithhi hu ik raah to woh hogi

Tum tak jo pahonchti hai is mod se jaati hai

Is mod se jaate hai

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Pure perfection. The episode was more than I could have ever wanted or expected.
The writing is the best I've ever seen.

A wife, overwhelmed by her emotions, desperate to finally profess her love, eager to let her feelings be known.

A husband overwhelmed by his guilt, trying to escape the pain of leaving her, unable to face the ocean of love and melancholy reflected in her eyes.

A couple, desperately trying to hold on to one last moment together...to make one lasting memory that would stand the test of fleeting time.

I'm deeply touched...the episode doesn't leave much to be said.

Hats off to the writers of this beautiful story...and to the exceptional actors that bring these characters to life.

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Love.
P

PS: Her spraying herself with his perfume...and his outburst at Pathak - "Mujhe kuch sukoon nahi mil raha yeh sab karke." My heart. 🥺

G I am so overwhelmed with today's episode and all the emotions, the feels are out of control and I do not know if I will be able to put anything worth the beauty of your post today. Today's episode for me has been the best so far, and that scene in their bedroom for me is the best Ishra scene period. If from tomorrow the show goes to the dogs in the race of TRP, I will still be a happy audience because I will cherish today's episode and the that scene between those two souls will always remain etched in my memory as an essence of this beautiful show.

I always think if these characters were in my hands what would I make them say, how would I make them behave, how would they look etc, today that scene in the bedroom between a longing wife and a fleeting husband was PERFECTION in my fictional world, I wouldn't change a thing, not a thing! Oh G I just don't kow what to say about that scene anymore, the way he was avoiding her and changing direction and the way she was repeatedly facing him almost forcing him to SEE her, his eyes on the ground, hers on him, his eyes somberly moist, hers glistening with tears, her uneasiness at the thought of separation, his guilt and remorse at the thought of togetherness, her desire to shower him with love, hers to shield her from his...*Sigh* And then the line that struck me in my heart and then there was no coming back for me: Aur Ruhi ke tede mede papa ke liye...ushki seedhi Ishimaa'

I can't! There is not much to be said about perfection in the fear that I might ruin it by my words so I'll stop here.

I leave you with my favorite poem for Ishita and one of my favorite ghazals for puttar

Ishita:

Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light;
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W. B. Yeats

Ishita has laid down the blanket of her dreams under puttar's feet, oh dear puttar tread lightly as you tread on her dreams.

Puttar:

Teri khusboo mai basey khat mai jalaata kaise
Pyar mai doobe hu-e khat mai jalaata kaise

Jinka har lafz mujhe yaad hai paani ki tarah
Yaad they mujko jo paighaam-e-zubaani ki tarah
Mujhko pyaare they jo anmol nishani ki tarah
Tere khusboo mai basey khat mai jalaata kaise
Pyar mai doobe hu-e khat mai jalaata kaise

Toone duniya ki nigahon se jo bachkar likhi
Saal dar saal mere naam barabar likhi
Kabhi din mai toh kabhi raath ko uthkar likhi
Tere khusboo mai basey khat mai jalaata kaise
Pyar mai doobe hu-e khat mai jalaata kaise
Tere haathon ke likhe khat mai jalaata kaise
Tere khat aaj main Ganga mai bahaa aaya hoon
Aag behte hu-e paani mai laga aaya hoon...

Originally posted by: -Payal-

Lots of stolen words today...my feels are all over the place.

"I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you."
Audrey Niffenegger

"Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you, and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes, but it hurts them too."
Holly Black

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Raman

"The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness..."
Leo Tolstoy

Sharmaati huwi koyi qadmo se utarti hai

In reshmi raaho mein ik raah to woh hogi

Tum tak jo pahonchti hai is mod se jaati hai

Is mod se jaate hain

*

Ishita

"Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you."
Cynthia Hand

Ik door se aati hai paas aake palat-ti hai

Ik raah akeli si rukti hai na chalti hai

Ye soch ke baithhi hu ik raah to woh hogi

Tum tak jo pahonchti hai is mod se jaati hai

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More Later. I'm a mess.

Na tujhe chorr saktay hain aur tere ho bhi nahi saktay,
Ye kaisi bebasi hai hum ro bhi nahi saktay..

Ye kaisa dard hai humein pal pal tarpaye rakhta hai,
Teri yaad Aati hai toh phir so bhi nahi saktay..

Chupa Ssktay hain na dikha saktay hain logon ko,
Kuch aise daagh hain dil par ham dho bhi nahi saktay!!

😭 Emotion overload today. I watched it several times, and still i couldn't find my bearing. My heart bled for her...because in her heart she knows that all is not as it seems...there are deep undercurrents in her turbulent Ravan Kumar. As for Raman, what to say, dil duhkta hai uss ke liye, but like Gan says the "WIFE" in me wants to beat him over the head!!!😡

--Nags--