Divine Puppets 4

DISCLAIMER:  Some readers may find this post absolutely unnecessary or maybe even foolish. I am a debutant in this genre. My sincere apologies to them and also to the one to whom this forte belongs.


 For the rest, especially those who had read and enjoyed the prequel(s),  here I go...


Suno Friends,
Now He has to travel half the country’s length to see her everytime. This time He will be in the city just for a day. Now waiting for She early morning after tiring two days journey, He is getting impatient. She is getting ready and she can’t leave until it’s time for college. Meanwhile, She receives frantic calls where He is enquiring that how much time will she take.  Every call occurs after every two minutes precisely.

              

Just when She is about to leave, receives a call where He shouts back ;

“Don’t you come now. I am going back.”

She calms her down,” Wait ! I am coming. I am really sorry.”

“No need to come now,” He shouts and slams the call.

Hurriedly, She boards the metro where a 1 hr 15 min journey begins.

And the string of calls begin again. He is back to normal (Lucky She everytime!).

Never had this long journey been so long, She informs He of every station that has passed.

Count Down begins…

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Finally, She is at her destination.

She runs into that direction where He is standing.

Overjoyed, excited, elated, She approaches him.

Suddenly realizing that He has overlooked her, She stands right across him and demands a response.And the only thing He has to say;

Oh! Is it you? I couldn’t recognize you!

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She (then): Can She bang her head somewhere?

She (now): Why does She find everything cute about He?

Divine Puppets 3

DISCLAIMER:  Some readers may find this post absolutely unnecessary or maybe even foolish. My sincere apologies to them for wasting their precious time.

For the rest, especially those who had read and enjoyed the prequel(s), here I go...

Hello friends,

Stern. Laconic. Disapproving. Bad tempered.

This is He’s image of She’s dad. He had never met him...ohh c’mon...why would he want to meet him...the man who conjured images of Amrish Puri of DDLJ ? He was the last person He would like to go and meet. Ha ha !!!

Its a pleasant evening in Summer 2009. He and She had spent another blissful evening together. They have just come back from Bhopal’s Bada Talaab. Its time to depart. What an evening it had been. They had watched herons wade in the great lake, talked about the dwindling water levels, and had sang songs while riding the scooter back home. Earlier, that evening, he had also said, “ Hey ! Imagine what would happen if your Dad sees us together !! ” She laughed and said, “ Don’t even say that !!”

The sun had set and it was getting dark. He had dropped her home. Oops, not home. Some distance away from home, from where, she would walk her way home. With a heavy heart, they bid just bid each other goodbye, when suddenly a figure appears out of the darkness. The thing had a petrifying effect on both of them. Their faces turned white. It wasn’t a ghost. It wasn’t some dangerous animal either.   IT WAS DAD.

Getting back to his senses, and with great effort, He could collect only the following words: “Namaste uncle....” Dad nodded his head. Even dad was equally surprised. But, he hid his surprise, and instead looked more angry and disgusted. What happened next is not known clearly, primarily because He’s senses had failed to log on any data after that point.

He returns home. She returns home with Dad.

Late that night, He receives a message from Her :  “You’ll have to come to my place tomorrow. My dad wants to meet you. I have told him that you wanted to come to my house, that’s why you were spotted in my neighbourhood. Please, you have to do this.....please.”

Dilemma. He doesn’t know what to do. If he goes to her home tomorrow, in the best case, he might be reprimanded by a person whom he fears so much. If He doesn’t, he’d be putting down the earnest request that his best friend had made to him.

Finally, He decides to go for it.

Next day, he went to the temple, before setting off for Her house. “God, protect me”, he had prayed to Lord Hanuman. He finally reached Her house. She was waiting for Him downstairs. He parked his scooter. He didn’t smile. He didn’t even say “Hi”. He just said, “ Lo...I’ve come. Where’s your dad?”  She burst out, “Have you come to meet me, or my dad? Can’t a friend simply visit a friend’s home?”  That did it. He was suddenly feeling a lot better, confident in fact. He entered her house and sat down on the sofa. She grinned and said, “Relax!! You can recline your back on the sofa. You’re sitting in attention posture!!” In the moments that came, He eased out a bit. He asked curiously, “ But, where’s dad?”

“ He is bathing. He’ll be here shortly.”

“ Ohh !! Ha ha !! He’s washing himself now. Then he’ll be washing me..huh!!”

After a few minutes, Dad walks into the room. Boom Boom..wooosh !! All circuits – fused. Again ! The brain is blank again. There’s this ominous silence. He doesn’t know what to say...or how to react. Somehow he utters the silly words, “Hello Uncle. I am Anirban. I was the one who was found at the corner of your street with your daughter yesterday...” 

“ Hmmm.....what’s this thing” , Dad said, pointing to He’s beard.

“ Uncle....its my style....”. Then He instantly realized that it was inappropriate answer.

“ Hmmm....ok...well, you two carry on. Tulika....I’m in my study. And have you offered him snacks ??”

Dad exits.

Later that evening, while leaving, He and Dad had a small conversation. A friendly one. Dad had asked him about his college, studies, academic projects, and life in general. All this while, She had been standing behind Her father, with a sweet (and victorious) smile on her face.

“All the best, son.  Do visit again. Good night”

PS: Glory to Lord Hanuman !!!

PPS: (Bhimbetika, Summer 2009) “I had to come.....How could I put you in a false position at home?”

Divine Puppets 2

DISCLAIMER:  Some readers may find this post absolutely unnecessary or maybe even foolish. My sincere apologies to them for wasting their precious time.
For the rest, especially those who had read and enjoyed the prequel,  here I go...

Hello friends,
Today I tell you (again) about two persons, He and She. He is a final year student of engineering at a premier south Indian institute. She studies Law, at Delhi’s leading university.

He has travelled more than half the length of the country to visit Her. Braving all difficulties, manoeuvring through all impediments, the two had finally met. The world had never seemed more beautiful. The wind had never been so blissful. The urban imbroglio and the incessant sound of horns from the Capital’s never-ebbing traffic had never felt so muted.

Time had stopped, or had it paced up.....?

            

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It was now time to return. They would board the train at New Delhi. She would get off at Bhopal, as She was going home on the occasion of Rakshabandhan. He would continue, for another 24 hours, and would reach Chennai on the next morning. The wait at New Delhi station was one of ecstasy and apprehension. They had always fantasised about travelling in a train, together. And this was the day that God had given them.

Journey begins. Its 7 in the evening, and the sound of the train running over the rails is occasionally being drowned by the hubbub of the passengers inside the Sleeper Class compartment. He and She were in a world of their own...chatting, laughing...frolicking. One of the fellow passengers had been eyeing them for quite some time. The guy was apparently a college student.

Suddenly, the guy on the other berth asks to She, “You two....couple?” She grins and replies, “Yes.”  The guy shoots back, “Married couple?”

She says, “Yes.”

All this while, He had been really not heard what exactly the guy had been asking Her. So He asks her, “What is the guy saying..?. She excitedly replies, with a wide smile on her cute face, “He’s asking whether we are a couple.” He is taken aback. Why would a co-passenger ask out of the blue, whether we are a couple or not? Why would an arbitrary stranger bother?

Unable to hold her excitement, She whispered “And you know what....he also asked whether we are a married couple!!.....I said YES...I am myself amazed at this!!!” He could not suppress his amazement.

The co-passenger guy, who now has a grin on his face, says to the couple, “You two look like...as if...you are made for each other !!”

He and She don’t know what to say. They are both stupefied. He could just reply, “Ohhh...is it? Thanks!!”

Then, a small chit-chat takes place. He (falsely) introduces himself to the stranger guy, as the following ...

An employee of TCS, Chennai, who graduated from IIT Madras three years back.

Happily married for the last 10 months.

Going home, after an informal trip to Delhi.

Lives in Kodambakkam, Chennai.

The guy introduces himself as a 3^rd year engineering student of Coimbatore, who had been on a Delhi-Agra trip with his friends.
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                          Kabhi hua yeh bhi
                          Khali Raahon pe bhi
                          Tu tha mere saath
                          Kabhi tujhe milke lauta
                          mera dil yeh khaali khaali haath
                          Yeh bhi hua kabhi 
                          Jaise hua Abhi
                          Tujhko sabhi mei paa liya
                                                                 
                                                                                --------xxx-------

PS: What is the probability that a random stranger in a train asks two people, “Are you a married couple?” What would prompt him to do so?

PPS:  I miss you Tulika. I miss you a lot.

Divine Puppets

DISCLAIMER : Some readers may find this post absolutely unnecessary or maybe even foolish. My sincere apologies to them for wasting their precious time.
For the rest, here I go...


Hello friends,

I am Anirban, a very close friend of Tuli.

Today I tell you about two persons, He and She. He and She are "approximately" of the same age and hail from the same city. He studies in this South Indian city, and he is back home, to spend his summer vacations with his family and friends. She has gone to Patna to see her relatives and cousins. Summer, you know. And then, He and She met. Obviously they met on this social networking site owned and operated by Google. He is a complete addict of this networking site and spends almost four to five hours a day in front of his laptop. She had recently accepted He's friend request. And this is the first time that they both are online simultaneously. He initiates the chat.
But, the response from the stranger girl was cold and stern. She seemed kind of cynical about the new guy. He feels uncomfortable and decides to call it quits. They end the chat.
They never talk again......

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Fast forward four months. Come October.


" Going the deutsche way ?" flashes on the lower right corner of the laptop screen. This meant that He has received a new scrap. And He is surprised to see that it was She who had scrapped him so. He had almost forgotten her. After all, we are talking about online friends and acquiantainces over the internet. Who actually gives a damn ??!! But since He had once received cold, and probably insulting treatment from her, it didn't take much time to realize that she was the same girl. So this time , He decided to exhibit a snobbish, unperturbed attitude. All the time He was thinking that what might have caused this conceited girl to scrap him suddenly. She hardly knew him. He bears the impression of this self absorbed, egoistic girl.

The talk progresses. And this time, He is very careful. He doesn't want to make a fool of himself again. So, he decides to talk of something non personal. He asks Her, "Do you believe in God?" He had an uncanny habit of asking this same question to every person he met. He was an agnostic. All his childhood he had believed in God because that is what his parents, his culture, and the soceity had made him believe. But then, recently he had read a few books by Stephen Hawking and a few other physicists which had shaken this very basic belief of his life. He had also developed an interest in metaphysics. So, the question of existence of God had been disturbing him for the past few months.

And so, he asked this question to her.

She came up with a 200 word reply !!! She believed in God, and thought that She was God's favourite creation. But He didn't find her long-answer-type reply convincing at all. He, who has lived by his faith in the power of reason finds it difficult to accept her arguments for believing in God. He types in a 200 word reply as well. He writes about physics, quantum mechanics, theology, metaphysics and almost everything that he had read of late.
She again throws back a lengthy reply. Around 300 words this time. And this time, after reading her reply, he is reminded of her summer arrogance. He starts feeling frustrated. He realizes that the girl is not ready to take in all the logic and reasoning that he presents in his argument. She is just being guided by her belief and nothing else. And He is not used to seeing people who vehemently and bluntly reject his views.

He writes back , "Fuck Off."


She doesn't reply this time. She never replies.

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PS: This did not happen.

PPS: He believes in God now.