IDEALLY NAUGHTY - 2 (PART IV)

PART IV

STRUGGLE

Something was poking Sanjay, he thought it might be a stone so he ignored. But then he realized that poking was deliberate and his brain signaled him of danger. He kept his eyes closed and moved acting as if he was adjusting himself in sleep and moved his hand towards his knife. As soon as he reached, he grabbed it and woke up lightning fast showing the knife. The Aadivasi’s got frightened by this act and started shouting. Sanjay was confused, questioning himself, who are they and what are they doing here? This shouting woke Shobha and Kaminibai. Shobha got cautious and also removed her knife. Kaminibai smiled and told both of them to put their knife’s down and convinced her children that these are harmless people. She went ahead to talk with them. As they came to know who she is, all of them went on their knees.  Sanjay and Shobha still in confusion. Kaminibai told them to raise and asked for shelter. They were happy and arranged horses for them. The Gaura’s were riding on horses and the Vaasi’s walking with them. They soon reached their Niwas Sthan (Place where they live). The Gaura’s were welcomed with flowers and drums, their traditional way of welcoming a honorary person. Sanjay and Shobha still confused what is going on.

The Gaura’s were then taken by the Mukhya to his house and was welcomed by washing their feets and putting a Tilak on their forehead chanting ‘JAI BHAVANI.’ Gaura’s were then made to sit and were given a special juice made of ayurvedic herbs and a piece of jaggery. Sanjay and Shobha made faces while drinking that which made people laugh and the moment light. They all started interacting and time passed. It was night and the Gaura’s had their dinner with the Vaasi’s. As the day ended the curious Gaura’s kids couldn’t control themselves and had to ask, “Who are they AAI? How do they know us? Why did they went on their knees?” To this Kaminibai smiled and said, “Once upon a time there was a MAN who had a brilliant personality but was on wheelchair due illness. It was his daughters marriage and everyone around were happy. Marriage was set to happen at the grooms village and it went in a proper way and the bride side were now travelling back to their village. While coming they had to pass through this Niwas Sthan. When they entered, no one was around. But the clothes, utensils were lying outside like a mess. Pin drop silence was there. People sensed something unusual as many of them use to pass this place and it was always a chaos around here, but what happened today. Then that man who was on the wheelchair stopped everyone and was trying to get up. His faithful child gave him a hand while standing. He went ahead and was picking a cloth. He saw the foot marks, they were familiar to him. He gave a look around and then he came to know what’s the matter. He smoothly dragged his hand towards his waist, held his knife and threw at the opposite side of where he was watching. BULLSEYE!!!! A Lootera(goon) was just killed by that man. The time this happened, the lootera’s hopped from the hiding surrounding these people. Less they knew that these were none other than the people of Gaura’s. Even if they were outnumbered, they had the courage to fight till the last breath and they did. That Man also fought for these villagers. It was he who said that we would either kill you or die. But he never expected that this would be his last. While fighting with 2 lootera’s this man was attacked by one from the back as they knew they couldn’t compete. His son was so angry that like a flash he ended the war as he could not take this. The war ended, Gaura’s won but they lost their best Mukhya. That Man was none other than RAMCHANDRA GAURA, your grandfather. That faithfull and angry son was your dad who killed these lootera’s like it was a piece of paper. The villagers were sad that because of them the Gaura’s lost their most important person. They gave agni to this man and said that the VAASI’S will always be grateful and faithful to his family. And this is why we are being treated in such a way.”

Sanjay and Shobha were feeling proud but also sad as they could not see their grandfather. “Your Great Grandfather had won various such battles, later he gave the throne to your Grandfather. He too never lost any battle, but the similarities between them was that none of them went to expand their territory. They were happy with what they had and wanted to excel in every aspect. All the battles held were against those who tried to capture our village but none of them succeeded. We never forced ourselves on anyone. Our land had always welcomed everyone with hands open. Today in townside and rest of the country we have constitution and we are republic citizens. But villages like Gaurawadi and someothers are spared from this as they still haven’t invaded us in anyways. We still rule like the kings and will be ruling till our people won’t feel insecure of their way and standard of living. Because our constitution is not ours, it still follows the British standards and our country will always lack to progress till the time we don’t have our own standards. Till now there were Brahmins and Kshatriyas who were discriminating the Vaishyas and the Shudras as the Untouchables. But Karma is a bitch, hope their children and grandchildren don’t suffer in a way they would never recover. Enough for the day, now go to sleep, tomorrow we would be leaving, they would guide us to our town.” Yay !!! said Shobha and Sanjay, who then went to sleep.

Later in the morning, the Vaasi’s and the Gaura’s started their day out and left for the journey.

Sanjay and Shobha felt so inspiring and were pumped after hearing their history. Now they were all set to go on one another adventurous ride to their town. Would this be the end to their troubled journey or God has still something up for them. To know more, hang on to this space. Do like, share and comment on the blog. Your suggestions are welcomed always.

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IDEALLY NAUGHTY - 2 (PART III)

PART III

(STRUGGLE)

Sanjay was trying hard to get a solution to this, as to how should he get out of this and save himself and his family but he couldn’t do much. But to his surprise the machine stopped and he was picked up by his head by none other than Manthra. He held him by his hairs as Sanjay was growling in pain. “You pricky guy, you were trying to run from the catch of Manthra, how dare you do that? I have already said that don’t do that right? I said if you wanted a peaceful death you should not do that. But no, I suppose you need to get tortured, tortured to death.” Said Manthra. Meanwhile Kaminibai had enough and she was already in action. She was successful in getting herself out from the knot but was waiting for the right time to hop off.

As soon as Manthra took a breathe out of his dialogues she thought this was the time and like a Warrior she jumped out and sliced Manthra with the knife she had. Manthra was shocked and went to the corner of the room with an angry look ready to fight the Gaura’s. Kaminibai cut open the knot of Sanjay and Shobha. “Well well well, the Gaura’s give training to their mothers as well. I suppose the daughters too could have a hand on the weapons as well, haven’t they? That’s so brave of you Gaura’s but just not forget that you are not dealing with the goats and cocks are you? So don’t be fools and drop your weapon and surrender because you know you won’t be able to outnumber me. I am a ruthless maneater and I don’t look like the one who could grant mercy. So will you please ?” saying this Manthra put forward his hand expecting them to put their weapons down. All this was not digestive to the Gaura’s, Kaminibai said, “You ruthless killer, you are not the first person that we are dealing with. So just don’t be a pussy and fight like a man if you are one. Because today, right now, it’s either we or you whose gonna go out alive. Let’s bring an end to this endless melodrama of the jungle. Just let me know how you want your body parts to be smashed off? Do you want your jungle mates to have fun or should I give you the respectable death?” this was way too much for Manthra, without a second thought he hopped with his knife in a move to cut slice of the lady who was talking way too much, but to his surprise she managed to dodge that and was now on the other side of the so called podium. They had a good eye contact waiting for the next move, Manthra couln’t wait more and attacked her and this time he was successful, he managed to get a cut on her hand, but her reaction to it was like a total warrior. She did not even look at the cut and was still staring at him in his eyes. “Well you are being too sexy to be called a woman with two kids. I am enjoying this. You are a wild cat.” This was not at all funny for Sanjay. He took the sword from the corner, ran like a flash towards Manthra, moved his hand through his neck. Before Manthra could realize from where did he come from, he had his neck out of his body. Kaminibai’s eyes popped out and she was shocked to see her opponent in two by none other than her own child. Sanjay’s eyes were red with rage standing in a style as he knew he hit a bull’s eye. “No one messes with my family. I said no one.”

“What was that? Are you mad? This is not how we fight. It was between us.” Said Kaminibai. “No AAI, fight like a warrior with a warrior not with a traitor. He deserves this. All these principles are not to be followed against everyone.” Replied Sanjay. “Good one.” Said Shobha. They picked the swords around them and were now proceeding towards the exit. They knew he was not the only one in the house and so they were ready for the fight. They moved in pack and Sanjay was leading them. They moved on to his hall where his wife and children were ready with the swords to get revenge. Not a second was wasted and the Manthra family attacked. Good lord it was a perfect match as the wife attacked Kaminibai, her daughter on Shobha and her son on Sanjay. They all were professionals so it was all like a war. Sanjay was all defending himself as Manthra’s son was way too attacking and had a strong hand over Sanjay but it happened again. Manthra’s son lost his balance and slept of the blood down on the floor giving Sanjay an upper hand in this one-to-one combat slicing another head out of the body. Simultaneously Shobha was also in her best, she had a clean action of her attack and did not gave her opponent a chance as she was not much of her match. Shobha easily removed her intestines out of her torso. It was Kaminibai vs Manthra’s wife. It was seen that both were having equal hand in the combat. Both the ladies were giving their best, but they were not at all interested in this fair match. Shobha was going to attack when Kaminibai shouted, “NO.” She backed off. Kaminibai was now tired, it can be seen. “That’s it?” asked Manthra’s wife. Kaminibai nodded a no and that’s when Manthra’s wife hopped like a tiger but Kaminibai got her move and she went down on her back and she stabbed her precisely. Finally the combat ended.

Kaminibai was trying to regain her breathe, somehow she managed to do so and they started running. She couldn’t grab the distance much and fell down. Sanjay and Shobha were worried as they never saw their mother getting so weak before. As Sanjay took his mother on lap he noticed that she had a cut on her stomach. Blood had already made her saree damp, the reason why she was feeling weak. Sanjay took her on his shoulder now and started walking. As the sun was coming to rest they had to stop, but the halt should be a safe place as the danger is still not over. So he continued to walk, by god’s grace they soon saw a waterfall and decided to spend this night at its base. Shobha cleaned the wound with the water. She saw the cut was deep but could be healed. By the time Sanjay had been to take some medicine and food. He managed to bring the medicine as he was aware of some ayurvedic solutions for such wounds. As they were near to a waterfall they had a protinious food of fish and slept.

What will be coming ahead in their journey, no one knows. They had already passed many miles walking now. They are expecting a miracle so that they would get out of this jungle and reach their destination. Shantaram was unware of this thing. The Gaura’s managed to get out of the jaw of Manthra. But this was a jungle, and you never know what could come ahead.

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IDEALLY NAUGHTY - 2 (PART II)

PART II

STRUGGLE

It was one dense forest, quietly walking with his face down with Shobha and Kaminibai following him, Sanjay did not stop. All three of them were walking together so that no one should get lost and face every danger together. They were aware of this dense forest and the danger they could face in it. The terror of the best known lions and tigers with snakes all over in it. They also have heard that every single person trying to surpass this forest had lost and never returned. Many tales related to this have been narrated to them in their childhood so that no one dares to go in it.  They knew that they won’t pass this forest without meeting these threats but they did not have any other option but to fight as none of them like to get on there knees for help. Gaura’s never did that and would never ever do it.

Sun was on their head but it could hardly reach the ground such was the density. Covered densely with tall trees. Thirsty and hungry all day long but without any complain they moved. They did not know where they are heading but were walking on all hopes to reach the destination. Soon they saw one hut in the middle of this dark forest. Everyone’s eyes widened as they saw that hut but it was closed as it looked from this far. They started to walk in that direction hoping that they should somehow get to stay in that hut for a night. As they reached that hut, Sanjay approached and said with a firm voice, “Is there anyone inside.?” No one replied. “Hello, is there anyone in here, we are Gaura’s from the nearby village and have lost our way to our city, will you please help us?” again no reply. Now Sanjay was getting irritated and thought of kicking the door and get inside of the hut, but was stopped by Shobha as she knew it from his face what he thought of. But then the unlikely thing happened, the door opened all by itself. They got shocked and a bit frightened as to what is going on. Sanjay just could not take this anymore and entered with anger and shouted, “Is this a joke brother, come out and talk to us, why are you playing such games?” and this time as well there was no reply. Shobha and Kaminibai entered the hut hand in hand, as soon as they entered, the door behind them got close automatically and locked. They ran towards the door and were trying to open it but it was not opening. They smelled something fishy and they knew that they got stuck in great danger. Sanjay, Shobha and Kaminibai now glued themselves to each other and were waiting for someone to come forward and end their filmy horror period but something else happened. It was a rod coming from the dark right on their heads, BANG!!!

Trying hard to come back in his senses, Sanjay was opening his eyes. He saw his mom and sister were tied with handcuffs and mouth closed with cloth stuffed in. He got disturbed and was going to approach them but couldn’t move as he realized it late that he too was tied in a similar way. He heard sounds of grinding machines and also that they had a company in the same situation as they could hear someone screaming the hell out. Soon he saw a man with dark complexion totally hairy, heavily built, with approx. height of around 7 ft and above, with an axe in hand covered with fresh blood with typical dhoti. He had broad smile on his face as he approached the Gaura’s. Standing right in the middle of the room he said, “Hello everyone, my name is Manthra, I know you never have heard about me but let me tell you one simple thing that it’s me because of whom no one ever surpassed this forest. So let’s keep that in same way as I am a proud man-eater. This blood you see surely gave you a close look of what is my today’s menu. But you’ll are lucky enough as your day will come tomorrow and don’t worry I know you all are hungry and I will share my food with you. HAHAHAHAHA.” Sanjay spat on his face and was giving him an angry look. Manthra got angry came forward and smacked Sanjay on his face. Blood started flowing through his nose. “ You Sanjay Shantaram Gaura, I know you, I know each of your family member and how you had hit your uncle. But let me tell you I am not your uncle so keep that anger to yourself because it’s worthless here.” And he went away.

Kaminibai was in deep thought after that. Sanjay asked out of curiosity, “AAI, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?” “ HOW DOES HE KNOWS US?” replied Kaminibai. “WE ARE GAURA’S, EVERYONE HERE AROUND KNOWS WHO WE ARE. WHY ARE YOU THINKING THAT MUCH?” asked Sanjay. “HE IS NOT A VILLAGER, YOU SAW WHERE HE STAYS, TRIBALS DON’T INTERACT WITH VILLAGERS, THEY HATE THEM, HOW DOES HE KNOW WHO WE ARE? IS THERE SOMEONE WHO HE IS IN CONTACT WITH?” replied Kaminibai thoughtfully. Sanjay and Shobha also started to think it the other way. The day passed and it was there supper time, Manthra had a wife and four children to feed and all of them were man-eaters. One of his kids came to give Gaura’s the food, to which they did not even see. They were hungry but this was not what they would eat. Some say that a hungry mind comes with the best survival plan. Sanjay got one such thing. Manthra forgot that the villagers always had a sharp edge knife, the best thing was that Sanjay had it in his lehenga. But it was inaccessible as his hands were tied. The only thing he could do for now was to remove his lehenga and he did that. Shobha and Kaminibai were looking at the door as to see who is coming in to tell Sanjay. Sanjay slides his lehenga by his leg in the direction where he could get access to that knife. After many attempts he finally got hold of the knife and cut open his knot. He soon ran to his family and made them free. While doing this they heard of a grinding machine getting started.

The Gaura’s looked in the direction of sound. Manthra was having food, then who the hell started the machine. The lights went off in the room and there was a Thud sound heard again. Ladies started screaming as they were held and dragged to the chopper room. The ladies were again tied and were hanged upside down. The Thud sound was nothing but it was a hit on Sanjay, he was unconscious for some time now. As his eyes opened and he was getting conscious again he started hearing voice of his mom and sister crying and a grinding machine nearing him. His eyes got widened and he had no clue to what should he do.

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ROADTRIP SHIMLA

It all started with only a wish from my senior, “Kaash hum Shimla jaa paate yaar ! (Wish we could go to Shimla).” And it struck hard, real hard and so hard that we decided that yes we are going to Shimla. We stay in Delhi working for the no.1 airline of this country. After giving the departure we were relaxing and getting ready for our night halt aircrafts and suddenly all of this happened. It was our 2^nd night and after that we were having 2 off’s, and so the plan was on. We were 5 people(2 engineers 2 Technicians & myself) who decided to bang on and started preparing.

Siddesh sir(engg) booked a Swift with the help of his local friends and it happened in no time. We ended that night somehow and left to our places for getting ready and decided would meet at Akshay sir’s(engg) place @12pm. But as usual we all were late and the one who was giving us the Car was also late. But then happened a magical thing, we got a call from the person from whom we rented this car that they are not having swift with them and that they are upgrading the car to none other than XUV500. We jumped in excitation that the trip started with a bang and all were happy. Soon we gathered, the Hunk Car came and we started our journey by 3pm. It was all smooth and we were enjoying the Delhi National Highway. Driving as there was no end to this vacation. We were hungry as well as we did not have any food so after 2 hours we took a halt at one of the finest hotels I have seen here named as ‘Amrik Sukhdev’. The very first thing we did was to empty our bladders as it was too cold, so that was totally natural. After that we went through the menu and to my surprise the rates at this hotel were equal to roadside food. I was shocked like they are giving this great quality with such reasonable rates. You just could not believe as the hotel ambience was totally rich and after seeing only I had decided that I would only take a cup of tea and one Lays packet, but eventually ended taking Pav bhaji and that was yummy. Others took Chola Bhatura and different styles of Samosa. After taking some selfies we soon took off from there and now had decided that we won’t stop for the next 3-4 hours. So we drove with loud music, fun and every little boy things that made that time really memorable. After some time we reached near Chandigarh and took a halt again to empty our bladders and took a cup of tea and raced to Shimla. Now it was dark and very cold as well. We had to reach Shimla on time so that we could get a room in one hotel for night but due to darkness and improper roads we reached the spot @12 am. We started asking for room but the hotels were full. With the help of Google Maps we started driving. The roads were covered with ice and the car was not getting proper grip. The car was slipping while we drove the car on the roads with 30 degree elevation. We somehow managed to drive through but then happened a nightmare. We were driving on a road were only one car can go or come. And that we reached a dead end. It was a gate of school which was closed. Now how are we going to turn this hunk in such a short distance. But our prayers  were answered and one security guard came out to see what was happening outside his school gate. We asked him to open the gate so that we could make a turn and leave. He opened one gate and the car went inside. As we were turning the car the other gate was coming in the middle so we told him to open it more to that he said it won’t open more. Now we got stuck because there was no space for the car to come out. Somehow we managed to turn the car but it was not at all possible to remove the car from that gap as there was not much gap to turn. Even it was not possible for us to go in the school and make a turn as the ground was covered all by snow till knee length. During this skillfull process the brakes did not support us and the car glided back while removing the car and ended with bonet fairing breakage. Now what should we do? After sometime an idea strucked and that was to dig some part near the gate that was not allowing it to open. And we did that, managed to open the gate fully and we took the car from there without any further damage.

  We got some nerds telling us that they will give a room in 2500/- but their rooms were not hygienic and this night turned to be more adventurous as @3am we gave up looking for rooms and decided to sleep in our hunk in Victory Tunnel. There was a loud thud near my window as I was sleeping on the driver’s seat, to which I got up fast to see a hawaldar knocking. He saw me moving and opening my eyes and told us to leave. I saw what was the time and it was 7am. I shook my head in positive and again closed my eyes. We did this mom-son thing for an hour and later finally @8am we got up  left the tunnel as it was not allowed to park in the tunnel. My seniors had an idea of the next stop and so we left for that place and it was none other than TARA DEVI’s Mandir. It was an 12km ride away from Shimla back in the direction of Delhi. We drove and reached the spot by around 9am. The road was too adventurous as its slope upwards was in 60-70 degree with snow all over the road. Yet we managed to come up the hill, all thanks to Akshay sir’s driving. This temple was approximately 7200 feet above sea level. As we went towards the parking we were happy to notice what we were here for and that was a bed of snow. We dint even locked the car and started taking selfies, pictures and playing in the snow. After an hour we went into the Mandir(temple) and had darshan. The man over there suggested us to go towards backside of the temple as he said we will love it. We agreed and by God, we went speechless. It was nothing but a mountain of snow. For the first time in my life I had seen this natural snow covering whole of the mountain. It was like I am in heaven. There were stairs for some distance to go down as there was a Temple of Shiva-The Mahadeo. So we decided to go down and look for it. It was slippery we fell we rose but did not stop and went on walking and enjoying through the snow. We were totally mesmerized by the sight. The whiteness of that snow got me so happy from within that it is still glimpsing through my eyes. My eyes were wide open in excitement to observe this beautiful part of nature. How amazing it looks. I am just not able to express my feelings, this really needs to be experienced and felt. Even though we were feeling cold we did not stop ourselves to engulf in that snow and had our most amazing time in it. We climbed back trying to gain our breathing rhythm with beautiful memories. It was one amazing moment I would never forget ever in my life. Soon we left from there and were going back to Shimla and also looked for rooms and got one as well. At around 1pm we checked in and decided that we will leave for the famous Mall Road by 3pm. We got fresh and left, had lunch and then started to roam. The time I entered the place it was not at all looking like I am standing in India. The construction, the environment, the cleaniness, the beauty all were like amazing and people over here took a very good care of their own place to keep this tourist place as it should be.  My seniors took some things for their parents and we returned to our hotel. We had a plan taking Hookah and soon we left for it, we roamed a while but got nothing in return. We were disappointed and hogged in our supper and went back to our hotel to have a good night sleep. While sleeping I had this big smile on my face, as it was the new best trip of my lifetime. Thank you Madhur sir, Mahaprabhu sir, Akshay sir and Siddesh sir for making this trip happening and looking forward to go for the next one very soon. 

The next morning we cleared the bills and left for Delhi as on this day we had to join the company on our normal schedule of night shift. We reached safely by 6pm and reported on duty at 8pm. Suggesting you people to go to Shimla and have the best time of your life as it really has an amazing weather (T&C apply). You could see pictures of my Shimla trip on my facebook account Siddhesh Sanjay Ganve

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SURPRISE

It was so planned, perfectly executed but surprise for many. What a beautiful way to end a short span of my vacation with my loved one’s my FAMILY. Right from August I had planned this holiday and the reason behind it was none other than my brother’s wedding with my sister. I know you’ll might be confused now, but yes you read it right.  A huge function for me as I was a part from both side of the family. It was my Maasi’s (Mom’s sister) son and my Aatya’s (Dad’s sister) daughter who were getting married to each other, that too love marriage with an amazing 10 years and more being in relationship.

I had booked my airlines round trip ticket already in the month of August. All I wanted now was to plan the perfect surprise for my family of me coming to the wedding. Preparation started one by one and everyone was given their set of work. The days were getting closer and everyone now started to ask me of my presence to the wedding. It was obvious that I was going to act in such a way that it was not at all possible for me to come to the wedding but yet I am trying my best. I mailed my Roster-in-charge about the same for real and he approved it provisionally. So I was sure from my side that I would get it. I had also planned what other things I am going to do when I’ll be there at my place and had listed it down the itinerary for the same with my bestie. As the time came I became more excited about the function. I was imagining how amazing my surprise would be and how everyone is going to love that. How amazingly we all are going to enjoy this wedding, how madly I am going to dance on the Zingat song and how beautifully we are going to capture these moments in our hearts forever. All these thoughts brought a broad smile over my face. I use to get goosebumps just by imagining how great haldi night will be. A week before I also ordered online, my Kurti and Dhoti which also came on the right time, the amazing thing was that the fitting was perfect.

It was all planned, but then the unexpected happened. The roster was out and I was not given my holiday. I was shattered. Never did I thought this was going to come. I was not ready for this. Just couldn’t wait more but I had to because the time for any query regarding the same would be solved in a stipulated time and it was not, so I had to wait for the next day. Next day I called my Roster-in-charge and talked about this with him. But without any issues he adjusted my holiday and I am really thankful to him. All I was now waiting for was the date of engagement. I did night duty, requested my supervisor to leave me early so that I could catch my flight on time. He did that and I left one hour early took my breakfast had it asap and got ready with my packed bags, left the house and after a busy airport checks I finally boarded the aircraft. Was waiting for the food so that after having it I would sleep till I land. As soon as the aircraft took-off they served us with chicken nugget and a pasta. I hogged and closed my eyes. It was like just 5 mins and a thud sound came and the aircraft was shaking I opened my eyes to see that the aircraft had landed.

I was so tired that I dint even came to know that I reached my destination. My parents were waiting for me at a hotel near my place along with my grandparents. I took the rick from the airport and directly stopped at the hotel. I was so much excited to meet my parents and Grandparents. I opened the door of the hotel with a broad smile, and their they were sitting right in front of the door. Eyes pooped out looking at me, “Aiyyo !!!” shouted my Grandmother. My parents were smiling all the way from ear to ear by looking at me after 6 months. My mom hugged me with wet eyes. Happy to see me. “ Dare you talk to me, Dint even told us you are coming.” Shouted my Grandmother. “ But first you come here.” And she hugged me kissed me on my cheeks. We had an amazing lunch and I told them not to tell anyone about me and we left. I did my shopping for the engagement. It took a while and I got late for the event. It was timed for 6’o clock in the evening. It was 6 already and I was still at home. I rushed out and took a rick to the hall.

I entered the hall again with excitement. And the very first person to notice was none other than my MAMA, he just hugged me as soon as he saw me and then my family followed, it was such an amazing moment for me, so nostalgic so emotional. Hugging every single of my cousin and my aunts and uncles. So much love in just one day. The best executed surprise plan for my family. That beautiful smile and amazing love I saw it just made my night and gave me reason to smile for the next whole year. The function went so well, we just enjoyed every bit of it. Everyone were asking the same thing, “You there till the wedding na?” I gave an amazing reply, “ I came today because I had off after my duty, going back tomorrow and would try my best to come back.” And they were like, “We know you are going to give us another surprise.” I left for the most miraculous time and came back in the morning of Haldi.

Our plans were simple, to pick my Tuxedo, then leaving for Haldi of my Sis and then for Haldi of my Bro. Me Mom & Dad left with all the bags in the car and went to pick my Tuxedo which was 95% ready and were waiting for the final stitch. But they told we will get it by evening and so we left it and told them to deliver at my Bro’s place where we were going to go for haldi at night. Now we left for my Sis Haldi, as I reached the spot we were looking for Parking. I was driving so I asked dad to please check for proper parking. Later he got one exactly in front of my Aunt’s place and so I proceeded. At the time of parking my sis came outside to receive as she came to know that her MAMA( my dad ) had come. But she was confused by seeing him walking outside the car. Now she started thinking, if Mama is walking outside, then who the hell is driving the car. I can see a big Question Mark on her face. She was trying to look very hard through the glass but due to reflection she just couldn’t see my face. But then came my little sister observing her face, why is she giving such an expression and what is she looking at? So she came and saw in my direction. She came to know it was me, and she screamed to death, “ DADA!” And ran towards my direction. I laughed and was ready to get beaten up by my lovely ladies, and yes that was the next thing they did. Both my sisters ran towards me and started hitting me while I was busy parking in a critical area taking much of the advantage of that situation. Soon we got inside and I met both of my Aunt. Everyone were so much happy and were like how bad you are, didn’t even let anyone know about it. How did u managed to do so? I said the holiday was sanctioned way before, this was the SURPRISE for you’ll. We ended the program with much playful things and now we had to leave for bro’s Haldi. It was too late to go as we had to drive approximately 60km with only one lane available due Metro construction work. So we decided that Me & my Mom will go by train with all our necessary belongings for the big event. We ate and we ran as fast we could. Our train journey was totally adventurous. To be specific it was from Vile Parle to Virar. Every Mumbaikar reading this will now know how adventurous it was that too in the peak evening hours.

Me & my Mom were getting out of the rick. My Choti Maasi (Mom’s li’l sis) called mom and was asking where is she, to that she replied we are in train and might reach some time later. By the time she kept the phone I entered the gate with my mom and saw my Maasi n my li’l sister keeping the phone. They got a glimpse and turned their heads, there I was standing in front of them and my sis ran out and gave the famous Spider-Man hug. I was so mesmerized and happy as well with the love I have always got from my family. They both were surprised and it was now time for the rest of my family too. I entered the Mandap (Booth) and they were dancing already but as soon as they saw me the excitement level went from 100-1000. This is what I always wanted to see and the reason why I made this surprise plan and it was so well executed that it went the way I want it too. After that the night went amazing, the next day was the Wedding Day, the best wedding in our family. Also that there was a surprise for many on the same day as well. Just can’t wait for one of my other cousins to get married so that I could enjoy this family fun and love once again. I am the luckiest person to have such an amazing family, feeling so blessed.

I LOVE MY FAMILY

IDEALLY NAUGHTY - 2 (PART I )

PART I

(STRUGGLE)

He was running hard, hard as he could. Sweating as if he had a shower, his clothes stuck to his body, eyes were red and wet. Sanjay reached with this posture to a hospital where his father Shantaram was admitted. Shantaram had a mild heart attack. The reason behind it was very clear that he had took too much pressure of his job. Soon the company was going to close and the future of his kids was on stake. Shobha’s marriage was in front and Sanjay was still studying in school.

Sanjay ran to his father and was staring at him. “BABA .” called Sanjay out of curiosity to see whether his father is going to respond or  not. To his surprise he did, and Shantaram opened his eyes. He was raising his hand to that Sanjay responded quickly and caught his hand. “Sorry, I did not informed you’ll while leaving.” said Shantaram to his son. Sanjay nodded with his eyes fully wet and was controlling his emotions. “ Where were you all these days?” asked Sanjay. Shantaram was saying something but couldn’t be heard as he was not having strength to talk much. Soon his colleague entered and kept his hand on Sanjay’s shoulder, Sanjay asked “Do you know where he had been?” “We all had been to Delhi for strike.” Replied Mohan a tall man with wide shoulders and a beard and fair complexion with his arms full of nerves and well built. “What!!!!! Delhi? Are you joking? I mean seriously, you all had been to Delhi for strike? Are you all insane?” shouted Sanjay. He totally lost his patience after hearing that his father had been to Delhi without telling anyone for a strike. Soon he came back to normal and apologized for getting angry on him. He sat down on a chair beside his father and started crying. Within no time Kaminibai and Shobha too came there and hugged Sanjay as he was crying nonstop.

After discharge the Gaura’s went to village for a change. There he told Kaminibai that he might go to town in some days in search of a new job and that she along with the kids should help others in farming. Kaminibai was not at all in a mood to leave her husband alone in this situation but she had to agree to this. Soon Shantaram left and Kaminibai and children were again saying bye to their whole and sole of the family. As soon as Shantaram left for town there had been a drastic change in the behavior of other members of the family as if they were a burden on them. Kaminibai soon took a new job in hand in the farm of a neighboring village. Shantaram’s brothers came to know about this and they were angry on her and told her to leave the job and told her to do the household work instead for all. But she refused and said that she will not do so.

One fine day when Kaminibai was working in the fields she heard some footsteps. She stopped and saw across the fields but nothing unusual. She again started to work. Soon after she resumed, she heard the sound again but the intensity increased this time. She got nervous as to what was coming but still kept her calm but before turning to resume her work she could see the grass moving, her heart beat increased, she now started to focus on the moving grass as to what was coming. The incoming thing was coming fast towards her but Kaminibai was all ready to face it and so she had her knife ready for it. Soon a dear came out from the direction running the hell out of her life, and she left a sigh of relief and was going back to her work, but then she thought why the hell dear was running so fast and that striked her. Her eyes widened and she could hear the running footstep of a beast come in her direction, as soon as she turned she realized she was late to be ready for this beast as he had already jumped on her and used his claws to attack. Kaminibai fell down on the grass rolled and was back on her foot, but this time she was ready for him. It was a cheetah who was chasing its prey and found a much bigger prey than before. Both of them were looking into each other’s eyes as to predict what will be the next move. Moving in a circular path as if marked on the grass this was a do or die situation for Kaminibai. Yowls could be heard from him but this did not make her feel frightened she was focused and was waiting for his move. He did that what she expected, cheetah did his move, he jumped on her  as if it was his own meat territory but Kaminibai was all ready for this as she went down on her knees bent herself down from the back in the direction of his jump and inserted her knife accurately into his chest. Stream of blood popped out from his body that splashed on her face as soon as she penetrated him. Soon both of them were on the opposite side with Kaminibai on her legs but cheetah lying down in his pool of blood. She turned towards him and started to walk. She then kept one of her leg on him turned her knife to make the maximum damage, penetrated the knife more in and then finally took her knife out of his body and screamed the hell out of her body as she had won the battle. Grabbing by his legs, she took this dead cheetah to her village so that she could offer this to their Goddess and thank her for giving her strength to overcome this fatal situation. With her saree all wet with her sweat and face covered in blood, everyone was shocked to see Kaminibai. As soon she dropped the cheetah in front of the temple, people started to applaud her and screaming in excitement.

Gaura’s came out of their house to see what was happening. Sanjay and Shobha too came out running, as soon as they saw their mother covered in blood they ran towards her and hugged her. They asked whether she is ok and she just nodded yes. Sanjay and Shobha both took her to their house and soon Shobha kept water on heat for Kaminibai to wash herself. Pindrop silence was there in the house as if they were mourning. Breathes could be heard. Kaminibai started thinking while having a bath that this is it, she is not going to wait here anymore and that she needs her husband. As soon as she came out getting freshed she said, “ We are leaving by tomorrow.” Sanjay and Shobha gave a shocking look, as to how could they go without letting dad know about this. He was going to talk but Kaminibai signaled him to be quiet with an angry look. Elder brother-in-law(BIL) said, “ No, you will be here till Shantaram comes. We don’t want any issues over this, you are our responsibility till your husband is here and we would be going against all the odd to keep you safe, against you as well if needed.” Kaminibai gave an angry look and said, “ This is not fair.” Hearing this the younger BIL came out of nowhere and slapped Kaminibai in front of everyone and said, “ We are not asking you, its an order.” This was the worst he could do to make Sanjay angry enough that he went near him and started to beat the shit out of his uncle. Everyone was trying to stop Sanjay but they did not succeed, he kept on hitting him as if it was the fight for survival. Uncle started to run away but Sanjay managed to stop him in the center of the village and he was hammering his own uncle in front of everyone with the series of abusive words. No one had the guts to stop Sanjay such was his anger. Finally Kaminibai came out and ordered Sanjay to stop with a stern voice to which Sanjay responded. He gave a bad look to his uncle and said, “ Never ever mess with my family” spat on his face and went inside his house with anger.

The next morning Kaminibai, Shobha and Sanjay left the village all on their own for an adventurous journey, adventurous because they did not know the road to their city. But knew their destination, clear of the vision they started on their journey as soon as the first sunray hitting their part of the land wasting no time so that they could cover the maximum in a day.

To be Continued…

I MISS YOU 2

Hi guys, this is a short story about two best friends, Anjali and Rahul. How they use to be and how they loved each other and yet were not in a relationship. They loved to stay like this and show their love towards each other. To observe each other from a distance but not getting noticed by the other.

This one as I said is from Rahul’s point of view. How these both love birds were loving each other in their thoughts and how this all ended differently.

Standing along with his Dad, Rahul was paying his fees to get admission in this institute but was standing there like a dumb. His eyes were stuck somewhere they shouldn’t go, at least in front of his Dad. Yes you thought right, his eyes were glued to one beautiful face. She was standing beside him for the same thing. She saw him looking at her. As soon as their eyes met Rahul gave her a smile but she did not responded and looked away. As soon as she gave her reply Rahul came to senses and looked at the cashier, he was looking at him through his glasses with a weird look, “ HUA ? AB PAISE BHARE?” and Rahul handed him the cheque with a weird smile. He was done and was leaving the room, but couldn’t do it without giving a glimpse at her. It was his first day at the college, as soon as he entered the room he couldn’t believe what he saw. It was the same girl who was sitting on the first bench. His eyes again glued on her, but this time she responded with a smile. He went back and was feeling happy. Attendance started and Rahul had his eyes glued to his girl so that he might come to know her name. “ANJALI.” Said the instructor and she raised her hand with a pretty voice saying confidently, “ PRESENT SIR.” And looked back where Rahul was sitting as she knew he would be waiting for this. As she turned she saw he was looking at her and she turned her face in front again with a smile.

Years passed by they became friends and soon they started enjoying each other’s company. Soon they partnered for a dance and became more bold and open with their actions. They started to explore each other but without letting anyone know. Soon they found one big thing in common and that was the love for food. That thing boosted up their friendship to such a level that they never backed from there. They started exploring different food items from the famous places and were loving to travel just for food. Soon their college life ended and now they were worried as to what will happen if they got separated from each other. Both of them were worried and started praying but did not let each other know about this. They both loved secretly and both knew about it. They were happy in doing so as it was never creating any disputes between them till now. Soon the list for Training was declared and it happened what they were worried about. It was Anjali who had her name in the list before Rahul. She did not liked this and ran from their as she saw the list name without Rahul. Rahul was both upset and happy, mixed feeling, happy as her name was in the first list and sad that she was going to be separated. He saw her running towards girls washroom, as he knew she was crying. Soon she came out with her eyes red and hugged Rahul. He consoled her and told her to be quiet and to always be happy for what you get. Don’t cry everything will be fine it’s just a matter of 6 months. He knew he was lying as he was not ok as well. But he accepted it and they both left the college.

Now he was waiting outside his training centre and looking for his name. Before he could find his name, it was Anjali’s name he saw first. He smiled and waved it off as he thought there will be a girl with same name. Someone then patted his shoulder, he turned and saw a familiar he was expecting to see from so long and soon had a smile that was long from one ear to another. It was Anjali standing behind him also joining on the same day. He did not believed and asked her how is this possible and she explained him how she managed to do this. He was amazed and was just looking at her thinking about she did this only to be with me. Could this be the girl I wanted all my life? He couldn’t help but had to hug her before entering the Centre. They did their training together and also continued their food exploration campaign. They ended with their training and where applying for a job but they failed, so they again went for training. In the training period they got one golden opportunity from a company they were waiting for and soon decided to depart.

Anjali heading herself in his wardrobe and throwing his clothes towards him as RAHUL was packing his bag at the other end of the room. Anjali had done her packing well before hand and now was helping him in doing the same. RAHUL was observing her from the other end, how she was keen on helping him with his packing. More worried than RAHUL was about his own packing. Soon his parents came and started scolding him on his casual attitude for not getting ready for the trip. As soon as RAHUL was done with his packing they reached the spot from where the bus was going to pick them up. Bus came and soon they departed. It was a long 18 hours journey and both of them were excited. Bus was a sleeper coach and they booked seat for the double sleeper were they could stay together. They started to play, eat, play again and chatted all the way long. RAHUL knew that Anjali was observing every inch of him as RAHUL was trying to adjust his cards. RAHUL too use to observe her from the corner of his eyes how she use to fall in love with him on his every single expression. They played and she observed all the way long till the bus took a halt for supper. They removed their tiffin and started hogging. This time again Anjali with a smile on her face was just looking at him how cutely RAHUL was hogging. RAHUL can say she looks so beautiful when she is looking at him trying to catch his every action. RAHUL was trying his best not to smile as she will come to know that RAHUL  was observing her too. RAHUL saw Anjali smiling and asked her what happened only by expression. She nodded and RAHUL couldn’t stop laughing and said to start eating again with an expression. After everyone had their supper, the bus took-off again and now they started to play new movies in the bus. Both of them watched movies and slept soon. They got up as the conductor started screaming “15 min RUKHEGI KHALI, JALDI NASHTA KARLO.” Both of them started to run with their brush in hand and a water bottle. After doing that they took a cup of tea and one masala dosa as usual. Having that they left for the destination.

Again they started to play and playing songs, “BAATIEN YE KABHI NAA,TU BHULNA, KOI TERE KHAATIR HAI JEE RAHA, JAYE TU KAHI BHI YE SOCHNA, KOI TERE KHAATIR HAI JEE RAHA.” RAHUL sang looking into Anjali’s eyes  and she just can’t stop herself from hugging him. They started singing together such songs and travelled a while to reach their spot. They started to live there with their friends. They use to start their morning together and use to end their day together. Right from getting up at 5’o clock for making food and breakfast, then use to run for bath and getting ready to leave for their job and then working together for the same company, having lunch together with colleagues, laughing and enjoying their work, that time also she couldn’t stop herself from looking at the world’s most beautiful thing and that’s his smile(she use to say that always), then coming back tired after working for 12 hours and then having supper and chit chat with the roommates and then going for sleep.

TIN TIN ! TIN TIN ! TIN TIN ! TIN TIN ! Rahul opened his eyes coming back from the flashback. Tears rolled from his eyes but there was no one to wipe it off. He needed his best friend to do so, but she was unaware about him, that he was hospitalized as he was breathing his last breathe. He never told her about the hole in his heart and that he was never going to stay alive like an average person, the only reason he never asked her for any commitment. He was still smiling as he had the best memories with him and that he was now happy to leave this world behind, before his memories vanish. Rahul closed his eyes, smiled and said, “I LOVE YOU ANJALI.”

TINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!