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...
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 3rd 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
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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
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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.
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